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Freedom of Information and the United Nations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

Carroll Binder
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Eight years ago the United States set out, at the request of American editors and press associations, to increase the amount of information available to its own and other peoples through international compacts. What began as a project for lowering barriers to the gathering and transmission of news soon developed into an effort to assure freedom of information and expression to all peoples in the belief that without such basic freedoms there can be no other enduring freedoms and very little progress towards the good life.

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International Organization , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , May 1952 , pp. 210 - 226
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1952

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1 Chafee's, position is set forth in the Wisconsin Law Review, May and 07 1951Google Scholar. The Peace and Law Committee's views found most recent expression in a bar association report dated September 1, 1951.

2 United States Mission to the United Nations Press Release, 1116.

3 The texts of the instruments dealing with the press, an explanation of how they took shape and what happened to them when they came before representatives of governments in the United Nations during the next eighteen months will be found in Department of State Publication 3687 which is reprinted from Department of State, Bulletin, XXI, p. 724.

4 For text of draft as adopted by the Subcommission on Freedom of Information and of the Press, see this issue, documents section.