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dated April 18, 1958: Freedom of the press

Mr. Oscar Pollak, Chairman of the Executive Board of the International Press Institute and Editor-in-Chief of the Arbeiter-Zeitung, Vienna, said on April 16 that the Institute had proved to be a reliable and untiring watch-dog of the freedom of the press the world over. Mr. Pollak delivered the opening address at the seventh annual assembly of the IPI held in Washington. It was attended by 200 newspaper and news agency executives and correspondents from 25 non-Communist countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He told the delegates that the problem of freedom of the press had many aspects and that border-line cases often had to be dealt with. Mr. Pollak disclosed that the IPI Executive Committee had decided not to include on the agenda of the current meeting, an item discussing “the growing tendency in the newspaper world to change over from news and information to entertainment." He said that this would be taken up later.

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