THE PRESS AND EMPIRE.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1920, Page 5

THE PRESS AND EMPIRE.

INFLUENCE OF THE CONFERENCE. By TelearMA.—FrtSS Assn —Copyright-' St. John (New Brunswick), July 31. Speaking at a civic luncheon on Friday, Mr. T. E. Naylor, a delegate to the Imperial Press Conference, and chairman of the London Labor Party, said that in Britain the democracy was gradually assuming a higher position in the national councils. The assumption of authority by the extreme left would not make the slightest difference in the attitude of the prospective new Government towards the overseas Dominions. The English-speaking nations were the guardians of the world's peace and always in the van of the world's progress. Represestatives of Labor desired to make the prosperity of the Empire as great as they could, and to restrain the forces making for disintegration and revolution. Sir; Robert Bruce, editor, of Glasgow, outlining the plans and aspiration? of the conference, said it was to discover how they could make peace secure by exercising a function no less responsible than that of the Government, namely providing facts and creating and providing opinion on the facts. The conference" was charged with the task of establishj ing a Press free from unhealthy influences and of breaking down the barI riers preventing or hindering the growth of an understanding between the countries of the Empire, by disseminating truthfulness and honest comment, in furthering which the conference would consider the increase of cable facilities. He mentioned the possibilities of wireless telephony- as demonstrated on the Victorian on Friday night.