Thought being free—within er-tain limitations—there is nothing to prevent earnest journalists. whether in Timbuetoo of in Pata genin from exercising their intelli ence on the routine fore gathering singapore. Every good. journalist eritish aval "commanders at Knows the value of the topical note. strafes: to" underline the on' Far Bastern proceedings on HAMS." Kent seem to be straining journalism. at the expense of commonsense, To begin ith there is much made of the secrecy" in which those proceed ings have been "shrouded." This may be due to a naive misunderstanding of the use of the term conference in the services, That fort of conference is emphatically not the expansively "reckless feast of reason and flow of soul by which ional conferences are distinguished. It would, indeed, have been most surprising if. the con: ferring Admirals had issued' press tickets for their little affair, "And if they had hinted to My Lords at Whitehall that such a proposal had made to them, there would have been grave danger of an ex-Admiralty House—with language to lesion in the august precincts of match. And after all ity is" not customary for the "silent service" of other nations to hold such conferences in the full glare of public city or even to wax eloquent on the subjects under discussion for' the benefit of the listening keyholes, Nevertheless it is pleasant to read Perspicacious surmises on... the actual decisions" reached at Singae pore in such a well-informed journal as the Moscow "Pravda," Fyom thi comment now vevenled, it will ha been guessed that that newspaper's correspondent has been' closer to the keyhole than anyone else,
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