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Show newspapers can do is to study the situation and attempt to convince the readers that there is no basis for the allegation. NEWS DOES NOT GUARANTEE WORLD PEACE The cause of world peace will be helped, we believe, by the promulgation pro-mulgation of rules designed to provide pro-vide for the free collection and publication of news. It would be a' mistake, however, to assume that this, of itself, will guarantee world peace. The right to publish news is not synonomous with its publication. We have seen repeated instances of what we consider unfair coverage cover-age of issues and events in the United States where the press is free to collect and print the news. While newspapers have, In the main, attempted to be fair In their news columns this goal has not always been achieved. Recent surveys of readers indicate in-dicate very plainly that, to many people, the newspapers of the nation na-tion are somewhat suspect. It does not do any good to denounce people who reach this conclusion. The best thing that responsible |