Hearst Journalism: Detail Need Clearing Up nest OvR OWN ComsPancENE
Paris, Oct, 27.
Mr, Horan, the of-tutor of Mr, Hearst's children, who acted as one of that gentleman's representatives in Paris and obtained secret documents from the Prench Foreign Office, can congratulate himself on having demonstrated the power of the Press to do mischief, and also the incompatibility between diplomacy and an age of publicity.
It appears that two documents, one of which was a confidential circular of instructions to French diplomatic agents, were entrusted, in perfect good faith, by M, Nobler, an official temporarily charge of the Press Bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to M. Deleplanque, a French journalist who was in the habit of calling regularly at the Ministry and who was consequently no stranger to M, de Nobler. The latter was probably not aware that M, Deleplanque supplied Mr. Horan with informa tion for the Hearst newspapers and received a salary for this. servic Deleplanque' handed the culars to Mr, Horan, he says, not thinking that they were of any importance but that they might contain indications which would hel 'Mr. Horan, Instead of using them in this way, Mr, Horan had them. translated in full' and tried to cable them from Paris, The cable company's officials, however, re: cognizing their confidential charac. ter, declined to forward them with out official permission. Mr, Horan accordingly telephoned them to the Hearst office In London, whence they were cabled to New York and published us proofs of a conapirney by the British and French governments against American me terests, thus enabling: Mr, Hearat to pore as a saviour of his country, Scarcely Heroic Mr. Horan, however, by no mean adopted the' sturdy patriotic attitude. When the French authorities first took action, he represented himself as a mere t him the papers and told him to cable them to New York, His colleagues of the' Anglo-American, Press Association believed him and made representations on his behalf to the Government, but, when the facts became known, and when Mr, Horan (who was at first told to Jeave the country but was later asked to remain so as to assist the inquiry) escaped to Belgium, they showed their opinion of him by expelling him from the Association, Mr. Hearst left France just before the trouble began. He has always been anti-French but has not hitherto been known to go so far as to commit an unfriendly act against a friendly country on its own territory. This is a form of Journalistic enterprise which does of commend itself to French opine ion any more than to the correpondents of other foreign news-Papers.
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