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7/5/44
Mr, Wimberly said press liberty was not a political issue, but was "fully as important to people of the world as freedoms guar*anteed by the United States Constitution are to this country,
"Oklahoma Democrats took the first action of any major political organization in recognition of the vital need of unhampered flow of untainted news, "
The Editor and Publisher had this to say:
"The free press and radio plank of the 1944 Republican platform, although not a ringing demand for international freedom of the press and communications, is an endorsement of those principles and may develop as the opening wedge toward wider recognition of their necessity for permanent peace and their ultimate Inclusion in post-war agreements between nations,
"It is feasible that the Democratic platform committee later in July will consider a similar measure, possibly developing a stronger tone,
"The Ptepublican plank states *it is imperative to the maintenance of a free America that the press and radio be free and that full and complete information be available to Americans* and then acknowledges that war necessitates some slight censorship. It rightly condemns use of the press or radio 'as instruments of the administration and the use of government publicity agencies for partisan ends' and then calls for a new radio law to define the role of the FCC,
"However, after sagely stating that 'all channels of news must be kept open with equality of access to information at the source*, the plank disappointingly adds:
"*If agreement can be achieved with foreign nations to establish the same principles, it will be a valuable contribution to future peace. *
"And so it will be, but there is apparently no commitment here by the Republican party to seek such agreements should it come into power. It is left to be assumed that the GOP thinks highly of the idea set forth by the American Society of Newspaper Editors and will do something about it if it can,
"Although the language is not definite, much in the manner of political platforms, it is a great advance toward an international ideal on which the light was first focused by Kent Cooper of the Associated Press in his book 'Barriers Down*."
The Albany . (N.Y. ) Knickerbocker Press commented:
"The New Deal holds lif e-or-death power over the radio sta¬ tions and does not scruple to exert pressure upon them to act as its mouthpiece. This is the first national convention at which results were palpably manifest, even in the routine news broadcasts, which
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