LU-Omer, Fletcher quoted criticisms of Reuters made in Singapore, He added that, in South America, American news agencies were "taking advantage of this payment to discredit Reuters, on the ground that they had received a subsidy from the Mr. Philip Noel-Baker, Labour member for Derby, said that this £6,000 is a trifling' sum to Reuters. In view of their annual turnover, but might do harm abroad, if it' was thought that Reuters news services were under the influence of Governphasized, "maintained "complete independence" in the collection and selection of their news. Reuters did el want a subsidy, end it was only because they realized the "vast im= portance to Britain of British and world news being presented through British, and not through foreign eyes" that they wore prepared to take even this assistance in their distribution of news,
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