Complete freedom of the press would bring nations appreciably “nearer to world peace,” Sir Roderick Jones, chairman and managing director of Reuters News Agency, told the Manchester Luncheon Club, whose guest of honor he was today, the Havas News Agency reported.
“Having studied the roots of this subject in various parts of the world, and having an imperishable faith in what’s best in international journalism, and in the correspondents, British, American and other, who sustain it, I am an optimist,” Sir Roderick declared.
“I believe if the press had its full liberty in the lands where today it is censored and muzzled, if correspondents there were trusted we should be nearer world peace than we are, and the influence of telegraphic communications upon trade and commerce would be even more beneficial.”
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