Robert Schuman, French Foreign Minister, press assembly
May 05, 1952 - World editors discuss free flow of news: More than 100 editors from all parts of the free world are attending the three-day General Assembly of the International Press Institute, which opened in Paris today. Programme of the Assembly includes round table discussion on such subjects as the flow of news, news from Soviet Russia, and the work of foreign correspondents. The Institute, which was formally established in May 1981 and now has a membership of 445 editors in 32 countries, sets out to further and safeguard the freedom of the press. In a study, made by its members, on the reporting of world affairs, the Institute records a growing tendency of Government restriction of the free gathering of legitimate news, in democratic countries as well as in totalitarian ones. The French Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman, stresses a point as he addresses the assembly. He attended as guest of honour on the first day of the meeting
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