GOOD STANDARDS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1943, Page 3

GOOD STANDARDS

MAINTAINED BY EMPIRE PRESS. CANADIAN DELEGATION IN SYDNEY. (Special Australian Correspondent.) SYDNEY, November 11. Frequent interchange of newspaper men between all parts of the Empire would be of priceless benefit to Empire relations, declared Mr Arthur Ford, leader of the Canadian Press delegation, now in Australia and soon to visit New Zealand. He made this statement at a "reception to the delegation by the Australian Newspaper Proprietors’ Association. Mr Eric Kennedy, acting-president of the association, who recently headed the Australian Press delegation which visited Britain and the United States, said that the delegation had found few surprises in overseas travel, so accurate was the picture painted by the overseas cable service of the Australian and New Zealand Press.

“This accuracy,” he added, “gave us gratification and a deep sense of obligation to our fellow newspaper men, who, in danger and despair, have contrived to maintain their objectivity and accuracy. We found that though our papers have to condense news to reflect the world round them, the final presentation is comprehensive and wide in scope.

“In this rapidly shrinking planet we are olose neighbours of every other nation. Only by greater knowledge shall we understand them, and only by mutual understanding and the mutual tolerance which it brings shall this world have any real hope of peace. The newspapers have great obligations and a magnificent opportunity to help.” A tribute to war correspondents has been paid by the Allied land commander in the South-West Pacific, General Blarney. “You have done a first-class job,” he said in an interview in New Guinea, “and we all appreciate it. I have never known a campaign to be presented so well as you fellows have done this one.”