In conclusion the speaker deprecated the various propaganda wireless services from which the press and the public the present time were suffering. These services were a pernicious survival of the War and should long since have been abandoned. The American Government was the only Government which, with the practical sense that usually marked its actions, had taken this step.
Only the previous day he had received a report from London of a meeting of the Empire Press Union, at which Mr. Robert Donald, the distinguished airman of that body, who for years had made a close study of wireless and of wireless news, had condemned the British official wireless, which was broadcasted daily by the authorities London. Such a service ought to be conducted, Mr. Donald had said, "by some entirely independent news organization Reuters or the Press Association," and not by the Government. For the purposes of a foreign news service of this kind, Reuters and the Press Associa tion, the great inland news organization of the United Kingdom. were, Sir Roderick pointed out, one and the same. and while he was not prepared to express an opinion on Mr. Robert Donald's proposal until he had had an opportunity of considering it in a concrete and definite form, it certainly seemed to present an alternative to the system which Mr. Donald. and others had criticized.
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