The Press: Steps Toward Freedom

A year and a half ago, Philippine Delegate Carlos P. Romulo, who used to be a newspaperman himself, asked U.N. to call a global meeting on press freedom. Last week, at Geneva, Romulo signed his name, as chairman, to a report telling what the world's first Conference on Freedom of Information (TIME, April 12) had done.

In four weeks of hot & cold debate, the delegates from 55 member nations had done considerable deriding of each other's definitions of freedom. But they had also drafted some new international law, subject to approval by their...