Pueblo chieftain., 1921-10-16
The Press AT The Arms Conference

that the eyes and of the entire country shall be
in the person of adequate representation
to which the proceedings of the conference shall at all
times be available Some papers limit their stand for
publicity "a reasonable degree others contend that
the standards of the foreign delegates that matter
be deferred to- tho the American desire is for
open discussion; and few feel that it is wholly al
question for the conference itself to determine But
the majority of papers demand free field for the jour
nalsts who the meeting, instead of the customary
official communiques and diplomatic censorship"
committee representing not only the several
organizations of Washington newspaper but large
proportion of the foreign journalists who will to
America from all parts of the world in November Isl
preparing, according TO information given by the New
York Globe Und.), "to fight to the death for open
covenants openly arrived at'' The Globe admits that
"cynics might point out that the journalists made
similar demand before the peace conference in Paris,
and that spite of ALL that conference essentially
Instance of negotiation but the paper replies
tina. in that the demands " only half hearedy
made' and that it is exactly because of the "object
lesson Of the treaty Of versaes that the armaments
conference must be f'on entirely different footing
In the conduct Of the Washington meeting, the Fort
Wayne Journal Gazette (Dem) says, "the agencies Of
publicity determined that it shall not be their fault
il the people jobbed by the work Of profes
siona diplomats and politicians Who according to the
ST. Paul News Qnd.) will seek by Of accurate
and complete accounts Of the proceedings handed out
the press limit information reaching the American
people to such facts conference committee Of
thinks good for them This policy the press
will not tolerate the News believes "eher there is
free American press capable Of passing upon legitimate
Of to the entire public, the American
press is that will lie down and permit its readers
to be dugyed by whatever medicine foreign domestic
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resort to every legitimate Of newspapcrdom for
procuring all the Of that conference without regard
to what that conference thinks the public should
| should not have in the way Of such news"
This is undoubtedly popular point OF view, the
Springfield Union (Rep comedies, and if newspapers
regard the matter solely with view to their inter
ests they would be natural advocates Of free to
all developments Of international meeting pregnant
with possibilities for news" but n such matters there
is inevitable clash between devotion TO theory and
appreciation of hard fact" The New York Post Cnd)
6nds that the general mind has been sobered and edu
Gated this matter Of publicity since the days when
the unfortunate open covenants became personal and
partisan taunt' and have come to "the
able limitations publicity which the facts impose
everywhere everybody" No body of the Port
land Oregonian Qnd Rep) feels, could be expected
to reach proper conclusions such matters win
be negotiated f every word and every suggestion
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the closely watchfu nations. The result Of such "an
attempt At publicity" it believes, would be "prvac
conferences Of few delegates at which deals would be
made In the deliberate Judgment Of "more than
historian the Philadelphia Bulletin (nd. Rep) re-
Marks "our federal constitution could never have been
framed IL the convention that created that great work
had not sat behind closed doors, and in the great
| debate" to the rule will hold the paper
thinks, "the delegates should be let alone"
'Secret conferences and star chamber agreements
might possibly expedite the business of the conference
not meet with approval" and Twill inevitably react
against the completed work.. It "just this device
Of clique Of powerful politicians meeting in and
deciding among themselves all the important questions
Of the conference without giving the people of the
world opportunity to express themselves, which in
the Judgment of the Lexington Leader (Rep) "marred
and backened the entire work. of the peace conference
at Paris. "Afcr ALL what is there to conceal" asks
the Flint (Mich) Journal Qnd.); what is there that
could be brought to light at such Inference that the
people Of the various nations have not the right to
in which they vitaly interested result, the
Dayton News (Dem.) feels in arousing very "human
suspicion"
"Pubiciy will not embsrrass the conference or re-
tard its work." the st. Louis Post Dispatch Cnd.)
declares without it, in tho opinion of the Seattle Times
Gnd) "another international failure is certain" Ger.
tany the old doctrine has not proved successful the
Christian Science Monitor Boston Ind holds that any
could possibly maintain that the treaties Of the
been such models of wisdom effective