Mr. R. A. Butler; the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, said that the assistance given to Reuters was "purely an emergency arrangement, the aim of which was to secure the publication of more British news.
"The contents of Reuters services," Mr. Butler stressed, "was left entirely free."
Mr. Samuel Storey. Conservative member for Sunderland, referring to criticisms of Reuters made in Singapore, attributed these to the keen competition existing between two Malaya groups of newspapers, one of which wanted another service supplementary to Reuters.
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