Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-04-26
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D. c.. MONDAY April
| Postwar Press Faces
Task in Ferreting Out
True Story Of Europe
Reuters Director Says
CoIiber Of Correspondents
Must Be the Highest


CoIiber Of Correspondents
Must Be the Highest
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 26.-What
problems will confront the foreign
correspondent of the future?
In the years after the present war
the men who seek the news in the
far corners of the earth doubtless
will find their tasks even more diff
ficult than those presented on the
battlefronts and in the diplomatic
capitals of the world now.
Discussing this prospect, w. J.
Haley, 41-year-old director of Reu-
tiers, British news-ga thering agency,
said:
THE news agencies of the world
are going to have the biggest as
signment of this generation after
the war-an assignment that will
have definite influence on postwar
history
Endorses Free Press Crusade.
Looking ahead to the peace con-
ference, Mr.. Haley said he thought
sound point" was made by Kent
Cooper. executive director of the As
ISOLATED Press, in a recent address,
IN suggesting the press would do
well to foster a crusade that the
people of all countries may be
granted what is constitutional
right here-namely. free press
which has served and preserved the
rights of free men in this country
of ours"
Mr.. Haley. soft-spoken man who
has spent 20 years as a newspaper
man, spoke with the authority of
one who knows the telescope actu-
atty of the world He had flown
the Atlantic. the American CONT
nent and the Pacific in the space
of few months.
At the New York Office of Reuters
he talked earnestly of the world of
the future for which he hopes.
Look what happened when Hitler
got control of Germany he said.
"One OF the first things he did was
to control the press Then he sealed
up his country against all of the
worlds press.
Suppression Points to Danger.
so We can see that after this
war one of the great detectives must
be to see that news is permitted to
now unhampered between nations
Where that flow is artificially
damned up that place definitely
can be marked of as the new dam
ger spot in the world"
Beset with the difficulties of re-
porting the most terrible conflict
IN world history, foreign correspond
ents are due the highest commenda-
ton for the job they have done,
the British journalist said. But
there may come day, he repeated,
when the job of finding where the
truth lies in the shattered AFTER
war world will be ilnmeasurably
greater than the immediate prob
lens of today.
you have only to look at the
map" he continued, Ito see what
vast territories currently denied. to
the woylds free press will be opened
up to accurate and impartial report
ing. The change will be sudden and
there will be Ignorance OF, the others
situation among both the nberators
and the oppressed
1T IS obvious that in a great
many countries things are not 60
ing to fall nicely into place after this
war Is ended. 1t will be the corre-
spondents' job to find what Is the
truth, to paint in the background
for world which during the war
had been able to learn little or
nothing about what was happening
inside those countries.
Highest Type Needed.
"On the quality of our future
foreign correspondents will depend
In great measure the service which
the newspapers and the news agen-
cies will be able to render to their
readers. We will need the highest
type of correspondent for that post
war job"
Mr.. Haley, joint managing director
of the famed Manchester Guardian
and the Evening News, is one of six
newspapermen directors of Reuters
who serve under a reorganized set
up adopted a year and half ago
which makes Reuters the property of
the British press as a whole.
At that time. Reuters for years had
been owned by the British Press
Association, provincial news
gathering organization which re-
ports the domestic news Of the
United Kingdom.
Under the new arrangement,
Reuters is owned on the basis of
complete equality between the
British Press Association (provin-
cial press and the London Press
Each group has three directors on
the board.
There was another innovation in
the reorganization plan. A Reuters
Trust Tor foundatlon) was set up
which by its terms guaranteed that
the news agency could at no time
in the future pass into the hands of
any one particular interest.
Australia's Press Healthy.
1t also guaranteed the integrity
and impartiality of its news report
and provided for the expansion and
development Of the news organiza-
ton.
AS a director OF Reuters. Mr..
Haley's travels recently took him to
Australia, where he had an oppor-
tunity to observe the operation Of
newspapers there during wartime
Before the war Australian news
papers numbered among them some
Of the largest of the British Empire,
he said. but most had been forced
since to cut their size drastically.
This cut. however, has not been
quite so severe as that in England,
where practically all papers are
limited to four pages by the news