New Britain herald., 1927-08-03
NEWS DISPATCHES
 0F OFFICIAL TONE
Warsaw Conference Proves They
 Are Govt. Agencies

London Aug. 5 (UP)-1f any proof were needed that the allied news agencies-the European news bine of official, semi official and other agencies-are the recognized mouthpiece of European govern ments, 1t was generously supplied at the recent Warsaw conference of that organization.
 The meeting was held in Warsaw at the invitation of the Polish gov ernment, extended through the offi- cial Polish Telegraph agency, one of the members of the combine. Be- tween sessions of the conference, which took place in the assembly hall of the ministry of agriculture and which lasted five days, the dele gates, who were all principal execu- tives of the various member agen- cies, were sumptuously entertained by the government with dinners. garden parties. excursions on the historic Vistula. and with a visit to
 
 their labors.
 The very first action of the con- ference was to elect unanimously as It's presiding officer NJ. Grzybowski, head of the Polish governments propaganda department. Grzybow- ski is the government official to whom is generally attributed re- sponsibility for the new and drastic domestic press decree recently promulgated in Poland, and which is patterned after Mussolini's fam ous press restrictions in Italy.
 Throughout the conference, the governmental affiliations of the or ganization were repeatedly empha- sized, one of the. most significant features being a speech to the dele gates by the Polish foreign minister, Auguste Zaleski Preferred to in the preceding article,) in which he char acterized the allied news agencies as organs which supplement the minis tries of foreign affairs of European governments which without your efficacious aid would be deaf in struments, devoid of resonance and echo."
 Special attention had been at tracted to this Warsaw meeting, among European newspaper pub fishers and editors. in view of the general press conference which is to begin in Geneva, on August 24 under the auspices of the League of Nations. The leading newspapers of the world, various news agencies and press associations-both allied and independent-and the official press bureaus of various governments will be represented at the forthcoming Geneva conference, which among other questions will discuss the resolutions adopted at the prelim mary meeting of news agencies and press associations at Geneva last summer. The most important of these resolutions was the one in which it was declared tbat official news emanating from governments or state institutions cannot be made the subject of any exclusiveness."
 Although the allied agencies out numbered the independent agencies at least years conference, this reso- lution after considerable opposition on the part of the official agencies represented among the allies, was formally accepted by all.
 Consequently, there was consider able speculation among European editors and publishers as 10 wheth er any attempt would be made at the recent Warsaw conference of the allied agencies 10 upset what their members had agreed to at last years Geneva meeting. In the Warsaw conference, nearly the full member ship of the allied organization was represented, 25 in all whereas at the Geneva meeting only nine wcro represented.
 The conference at Warsaw was ings or conclusions were officially published, and the only information divulged was that obtained by meth ods more or less successfully en- ployed in reporting executive scs- sions of the United States senate. In this way it was learned that nothing was formally done by the delegates to interfere with the resolutions to which their colleagues had assented d at Geneva. However, there was much private discussion on the sub ject, and not q little dissatisfaction expressed by some of tho delegates who felt that if deprived of exclu- siveness of, official news. the eff ciency of their organizations might be very seriously jeopardized.
 Since the Warsaw meeting. quite movement has developed among , the allied agencies against the rati- fication of this resolution by the forthcoming general press confer ence at Geneya--or, if it is not found possible or expedient to kill the resolution. at least to have the con- | ference place such an interpretation l upon 1t as would render it innocu- | ous.
 Although most of the time of the l Warsaw conference was devoted tC ! routine matters relating to inter- l change of news among it's members internal fiscal arrangements, etc, the nroads made in the past two years since the last allied conference whicf was held at Rome. by the indepen dent news agencies and press asso citations in the territories parcellet out among the allies as their specia fields came in for considerable share of attention. In this discus