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FREEDOM OF PRESS

DISCUSSED AT

EMPIRE CONFERENCE

Ottawa, Juna 17..

The debate on Pross freedom continued today at the seventh Imperial Pross Conference here. Three delegates from India, Mr. Durga Dai, Mr. M. N. Coma and Mr. C. R. Srinivasan, and Mr. Altaf Husain of Pakistan spoke of the difficulties of achieving absolute Press freedom in unset- tled countrios.

•

Mr. Cama summed up this view when he said: "Freedom of the Press in theory is a thing we should all aspire to have. In practice, however, it might do more horm than good.”

Mr. Altaf Husain said that Press freedom was still young. "We have peace on the surface," he said, "but that surface is like a thin shooting of ice on an early winter day, and could crack at any moment. Judging by some of the spoaches that we have heard, wa are to assume that correspondents are essentially wicked and not to be trusted.

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 10, 1950.

Arab States sign security alliance

Alexandria, June 17. The Arab States of Egypt, Byria, Lebanon, Baudi Arabia and Yamen signed a collective security pact here today, the Arab League political counali, announced. Tha communi-

sald the Arab

League councillo approved the draft of a joint reply to last month's Ambrican Bettiah. French declaration on the Middle East. No detalls of the proposed reply were dis. closed,

que

Observers hara were in. torostad to nota that the security agreement made no mention of Iraq and Jordan, the other two members of the Arab

League. The Iraqi delegate was present at the meeting but abstained from voting, while Jordan had no representativa present.-Unit ed Press.

A minority of delegates, how- ever, refused to be swayed from

of the support

Council. Their | 000 views were reflected by overseas delegates, notably india.

dents. We want more of them in įduties. We seem to have losteritle of the proposed Pakistan. We will welcome them, more than we have gained.”

and help them. But not many of

them came. This makes us won-

der if the older countries are interested in really sufficiently

us,"

Somo limits

Mr. Cara sald he would ylald to no one as a fighter for free- dom. But there had to be some limits. "Sabotage," he

BRITISH PACT WITH PORTUGAL

"The newspapers in Pakis- today was no longer rated as high de- as it used to be, "although our to at this stage do not mand absolute freedom. Suchfreedom is, greater".

"Neither the public nor the restrictions as we feel are n-government are prepared to take cossary we impose ourselves, Jour profession ai ita fare value,

A representative of the power- "One thing that we do favour The pathlie expecially is getting full London "Express" group, the strongly is fall and free ess to critical. For decades we sought cneral Manager, F. J. Robert- the news for foreign correspon- to educate the public in their son,

the most outspoken Counell Allon while

Pitt Robbins

news editor of the "Times" of London, When was its chief defender, the session entled without agree- chair- ment, Culonel J. J. Astor, cha man of the Conference, announced wald, that discussion would be adjourn can be committed not only by d 15 Monday, June 26, at ses-

Lisbon, June 17. blowing up bridges, but cansions to be held in the Royal

Britain and Portugal here consist of interfering with the Muskoken Hotel in Lake Rosseau.

tonight signed a 20-year- administration proper

Mr. Robertson said his news- A country.

papers would fight the idea of a agreement, designed to open "There are editors who would Counell to the bitter end, He up African trade by the im- the Press take advantage of too much free was supported by Frank Packer,provement of the Portuguese tion. There are newspapers with managing director of the Con- East African port of Beira, in secret policies. The government solidated Press of

Sydney, Aus- must not be prevented from tak tralla, and Senator Rupert Davies Mozambique, and the railway ing action for the security of the of the Kingston, Ontario, "Stan-linking it with Southern

however. Rhodesia. Robbins, "We want Press freedom, but said that the proposed Council not unconditionally."

purely voluntary body Mr. Durga Das said the Fress without any statutory or legisla arted as the protector of dentive authority. cracy. To fulfil this function,

Mr. Srinivasan spoke against placing uninformeil, unintelli- gent controls" on the Press, "The great traditions of the Press", he sald, "were built up in the days

there when

xtrait 3113 Jackets".

However, he added. it svens that the influence

were

New phase opening in Indo-China

Bao

Saigon, June 17,

country at large.

of

dard." Mr.

was d

"Roal donger"

BLINDNESS A RESULT OF

ATOM BOMBING

Washington, Juno 17. Atomic blindnoss is developing among the Japanoso who survived the atomic bombings of 1945. This delayed radiation affect was reported today by the Atomic Energy Commission. The AEC said the survivors have, however, re- covered from acute or immediate effects of the bomb blast such as loss of hair, temporary infertility and blood changes."

The Commission reported only of the children of the people the findings by the National bombed. but of their

grand-

Research Council's atomic children as wel!. bomb casualty commission which has been working in methods to detect abnormalities In addition to using elinteni Japan since 1947. The report at birth, the Atomic Bumb said it may take generations Casualty Commission, wherever for all-long range effects of possible, is making

routine the bombings to show up: autopsies on still-born Infants net children dying soon after birth, the report continued.

Hiroshima has been turned into

a vast laboridory for the investi- Aetion of direct and Inherited

In addition, the Commission f

after effects of atonte radiation examining 700 new-born Infants down to the second generation, monthly at Hiroshima, and 800 the Commission said.

a month at Nagasaki, wherei similar investigations are now

1ts Atomic Bomb Casualty starting." Commission had already ac- cumulated data on more than During 1947 and 1948 a survey 150.000 people in the bombed of fabout 300 exposed and 30

unexposed children was under. taken to determine the differences. Iliroshima-first atomised war in growth and development in target was bombed In the sum-the two groups-United Press and mer of 1945.

Kleuter.

areas.

To obtain information

11

herited changer

on in- would ba

of that

observation not only nccessary to make a careful

children of the people who were bombed. but of their children as well.

Eye cataracts.^

grand-

RUSSIAN BUDGET ADOPTED

About 35,000 births had been With American ald, Beira is to investigated since 1947, the Coin-

Moscow, June 17. be bulit up into one of Africa's mission added, but it was esti-

The Union Council of the The session was the third spent most important outlets to the mated that at least 200,000 would Supreme Soviet today adop-

seas-serving the inland terrilo- jounalists must be given free ac-by Conference delegates. on the

have to be studied in order to ted ries of Southern Rhodesia, North-detect small changes in the fre- providing 79,400,000,000 rou

the 1950 State budget cess to the news."

freedom of the Press. ern. Rhodesia and Nyasaland. Mr. Das said: "Had the world issue of

quencies of congenital and in-bles for defence. consisted only of the countries of Mr. Packer was the delegate who

lierited abnormalities. the Commonwealth and of the sounded a note of urgent warn- United States of America, the ing to British newspapermen. problem of Press freedom would Dai, hend of the not be difficult to handle; but we

"The Royal Commission op have to keep in mind the needs pointed by the UK. Government, French-recognised Vietnam of hoth our part of the world, and after using all British Govern- State opposing

Com-the rest.

ment resources and lavish ex- munist-recognised Vietminh "We have to look at the matter penditure of money upon its in- in Indo-China, I do not mean the way Mr. Johnvestigation, found nothing funda-

from the other side of the fence, government

Under the agreement-known mentally. .or radically wrong with

sald. as the Beira convention-Portugal Press, he Publishers of the United King- undertakes to maintain Beira and the Beira railway in a state of should not accept the pro posed Cornell. It is the thin efliciency adequate to the require edge of the wedge of Governments of traille lo or from South-discovery ment control.

The danger Isern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia real and should be recognised." and Nyasaland..

Mr. Davies empimasised the danger that any action in the United Kingdom might becoMTH:

the

dom

British

Portugal. and Southern Rhode- sia will share the non-dollar costs of the improvements.

The Marshall plan Economie Co-operation Administration has The first evidence of delayed Of this figure, representing 18.5 already granted US$57,000 Ineffects on survivors was the dis-per cent of the whole budget ex- technical aid for improvements to covery of eye cataracts, the Com-penditures, 64,000,000,000 roubles the Betra rallway.

mission said.

were allotted to the Army, and 15,000,000,000 roubles to the Navy, The first clue to their likely occurrence had come from the

Total income anticipated in the discovery of cataracts among budget was 433,000,000,000 roubles, atomic research workers in the with expenditures placed at United States.

427,000,000,000 roubles. The An examination of 1000 people balance compares with a surplus who had been within 3,000 feet of 24,700,000,000 roubles Inst year. of the Iliroshima blast led to the

The 1950 budget was first sub- cases of radiation cataract and mitted to a joint session of the an additional 40 suspected cases.the Soviet of the Union and two Houses of the Supreme Soviet The Commission reported that survivors who were exposed to the Soviet of Nationalities last

Tuesday. atomic radiation had immediate effects of the bamb-sions of both Houses, meeting in recovered

apparently from the acute от Since then the Budget Commis- ing, such as loss of hair, teinpor-comera, have increased the draft ary infertility and blood changes. Income figures by 1,000,000,000

roubles.

a

was expected here to fly by Peet has chosen to do it in Ber- a special plane to France on in. Jung 20.

Access to news "Incidentally. 1 will attend, and may open,

the manner in an inter-State conference, due to which the lemocratie Press had published the reasons given by begin on June 27 here. The con-r: Peet for doing so is a vindi- ference is between France and the three new independent States cation of the freedom of the Press

A start was made earlier this of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, in the democratic countries.

month. The Portuguese Govern- that are within the French Union. United Nations consists of nations the pattern for similar action credit for re-equipping the roll-

"We must remember that the

ment approved £1,250,000 The conference begins the third in various stages of political de- other parts of the Commonwealth.

***** | way. phase of the latest French politi-velopment. Many have no news- " fear that if the Parliament cal settlement in Indo-Chinn. papers or news agencies, Some of Westminster sets up a Coun- have only begun to let the Press ell to more or less control the The Arst phase ended in Parisfunction."

British Press it might not be long last year when France signed an "Since the strength of a chain Before a similor Council were set agreement recognising the new depends on that of each link, we up in Canada," he said, States. The second was complet- cannot blame the United Nations

N. M. Coma, publisher of the ed on June 15, when 27-year-old sub-commission on information Bombay Times, apposed un- King Norodom Sihanouk of if it is trying to evolve a code restricted freedom of the Press on On their part, the British and Cambodia signed the dual docu- which will lay down the mini-the grounds that conditions in South Rhodesian Governments, ment with the French authorities, mum standards of ethics and of

India required the Government recognising the substantial invest- transferring administrative po- performance on the port of the to retain powers over newspapers ment involved in the development wers to the Cambodian Govern-Press and the government.

Mr. Das continued: "As for new the interests of security of the of Beira and the railway, agree to use both to their full capacity. we in India have Mr. Camia Similar powers had been given cess to news,

emphasised that probably the clearest pleture. I

Preferential rates will be main- earlier in the same way to the cannot say that the same is the when Governments had been un-

case in other countries.

Communist in-tained in favour of Beira-Reu- Corres-able to prevent

filtration Into their own services, pondents of Indian operating in the United States it was not reasonable to expect that newspapers should be able

ment.

Vietman and Laos Governments.

The inter-State conference will Jointly settle problems connected with the residue of powers so far

ac state.

newspapers

not given to the new States in and some countries of the Com-to do so. Some newspapers in

their joint interests.

monwealth have not the sume ac- to cess as their own notionals,

Portugal also undertakes to establish a “free zone” In Beira, through which goods may be Imported or exported by the Central African territories with- out payment of duty.

ter.

Press,

sex per-

Washington, June 1. An investigation of India had secret policles inimical They will include financial,could attend the United States to the State, and an all-out policy veris among Federal employees customs, immigration, commu- President's Press conterence, but of Fress freedom might do more will be made by a Congressional nication, and foreign trade mat- not put to him a question. I can-harm than good in Indin.Reuter Sub-Committee, Associated tere Plans for the Importation not even visit South Africa as a and United Press. of new equipment and integrat self-respecting individual. od development of Indo-Chinese

the consequence to economy will also be discussed. the democratic cause when I tell you that 170 million voters-the The leader of the Vietnamese largest number in any country in olegation Is Governor Nguyen the world-are to go to the polls

Trung Von of South Vietnam,

"Think of

this time next year and we can- Vietnamese Premier Tron Van not reach even five per cent of Huu is among the 10 delegates them through newspapers? who will accompany Bao Dai.

"If we had only 100,000 tons of The High Commissioner, M. [newsprint, we would reach dou- Leon Pignon," and several French bie the present readership." experts will be in France the conferaneo takes place.

when

No agreement

The Inter-State conference is The delegaten onded their busi- expected to discuss some of theness sesalons without an agree- matters which to conẞlet be- ment on a freedom of the Press tween Moscow-trained lio Chi-formula. The controversial issue, minh's government and France which had divided the gathering. after the political settlement piwus whether United Kingdom March 8, 1945.

publishers should support and ac cept £11 advisory Press Council, Vietnamese troops from the a voluntary body which is now Bao Dai Government are now co-under formation under Govern- operating with French forces ment auspices as a result of the against Ho Chi-qinh's Commu- recent Royal Commission which nist guerillas.

investigated the British Press.

The seemed opcends of delegates! having any. to do with thing to

the Council on the grounds that it

it represented the "thin edge of the wedge" of Government control of the Dritish Press. They feared the pattern might extend to the rest of the Commonwealth.

The first United States military ild to French. and Vietnamese reported to be due troops was about the end of June in Saigon. An initial consignment of Ameri- can arms and equipment is being flown to Indo-China In eight United States Dakota plancă-- Reuter.

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