FREEDOM OF PRESS
VITAL TO DEMOCRACY MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. READ AT COMMEMORATION DINNER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) BOSTON, March 14. At a dinner, a concluding function commemorating the fight for a free Press in America, Mr Daniel Marsh. President of the Boston University, read a message from President Roosevelt which said: “The Fathers of the Constitution wisely guaranteed, in the organic law of our land, those great basic freedoms of conscience, education, Press, speech and of assembly, not the least of which is freedom of the Press, without which our institutions of Democracy could not be maintained. Indeed, since in the last analysis democratic government is a government by public opinnion, it is of paramount importance that public opinion be fully informed. This must be guaranteed by the Press, by forum debate and discussion and in these twentieth century days by the magic of radio. All these agencies of information must be kept free and accessible to all, as the well-springs from which our democracy draws its very life.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1941, Page 5
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174FREEDOM OF PRESS Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1941, Page 5
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