Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-01-12
World Peace Depend!
0nFreedom Of News,
,Ackerman Declares
Columbia Dean Asserts
Treaties Made by
Propaganda Will Fail
By the Associated Press.


HAVERFORD, Pa, Jan. l2.-
Expressing concern as to whether
the global peace after the war is
to be based upon propaganda or
news, Dean Carl w. Alderman
said today that if the former
method is chosen there will be
no national or international
freedom of news, psychological
warfare will continue and lead
inevitably to another war"
To-day all belligerent govern
ments are using propaganda to fight
their enemies in so-called psychic
logical warfare" the dean of the
graduate school of journalism of Co.
7umbia University said in an ad-
dress at Haverford College
Wherever public information is
used for that or for any other selfish
'.or tendentious purpose, whenever it
is written, timed and distributed to
influence rather than to inform pub
lie opinion, it becomes propaganda.
in time peoples generally recognize
ut as such, as if they knew that in
formation Is like water-it may be
either pure or contaminated" he
said.
Another War Feared.
MY concern is to know whether
'Slobal peace is to be based upon
propaganda or news. AS citizen,
I want to know whether our Govern
itlent first. and the United Nations
.as our allies, plan to participate in
The peace negotiations on propa-
ganda or a news basis. If the pres
ent censorships, controls, restric-
lions and propaganda, as wartime
measures continue throughout the
next peace conference the treaties
will be made by propaganda. In
that case there will be no national or
international freedom Of news, psy-
sociological warfare will continue and
lead inevitably to another war"
= Dean Alderman said that If the
spledge OF freedom of speech in the
Atlantic Charter is to be enforced
at the peace conference there must
be freedom of inquiry and report
ing by journalists of all nations. If
1reedom of speech is to be a practi-
seal factor in international affairs,
freedom of international communi-
cations must be provided for and
seledged in the peace treaties"
n Cites Versailles Failure.
q He cited the book Barriers Down."
by Kent Cooper, general manager
of the Associated Press, which he
rsaid reveals for the first time the
history of his (Mr. Cooper's) efforts
at Versailles in 1919 and since then
to bring about freedom Of interna-
2tional news exchange and how
sthe British and French news agen-
seies, subsidized by their govern
ments, prevented the establishment
OF freedom Of international commu-
nications after the Versailles con-
@rences.'
Referring to a five point plan for
international intercourse under
global peace that Mr.. Cooper pre-
scents in his book, Dean Alderman
said he made speech in 1888, with !
out knowing the facts as related by
MIR. Cooper, which went along SIM
sIar lines.
b. THAT proposition was first ex-
pounded 10 years ago, but it had
snot the slightest effect upon inter.
national affairs" he said. Neither
will Mr. Cooper's book influence the
course of global peace after this war
unless the people of the United
States are aroused to the realization |
that propaganda in wartime can
lead to the freezing of international !
communications at the peace con-
ference and in the peace treaties