Duty of Newspapers Toward National Foreign Policy Washington, Feb. 4.
Dedieating the National Press Club here to-day, President Coolidge made some interesting observations on the duties of newspapers. He declared that the press should cooperate with the Government in international affairs and laid down the principle that the Government itself had charge of foreign relations.
The President suggested that when the press undertook to exert its influence on behalf of foreign interests the "candour of the situation would greatly increase if their foreign connections were Publicly disclosed Foreign interests were entitled to be represented in the United States, the President continued, "but when foreign Governments are represent ed here their agents are required to come publicly accredited and to be publicly received."
For generations, President Coolidge added, the' law of the United: States has forbidden its own citizens to enter into negotiations with foreign Governments in regard to their relations with their own Government and such negotiations could only be carried on under the direction of the President, In conclusion President Coolidge declared that the spirit of mankind was more and more demanding that government and society should be conducted under the laws of truth: those who forgot that precept were und for moral explosion." Reuter.
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