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‘Newspapermen Risk Lives For Freedom Of Expression

ZURICH, Switzerland (AP)— ite suppression of press free- in Communist and other dictatorships, individual newspa- per men still risk their lives for some vestige of free expression, International Press Institute reported Sunday. The institute published a “sur- of the press in authoritarian * which painted a grim ‘of. the. blackout on news

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“There has been evidence in many authoritarian countries of aspirations of journalists to a greater freedom .of expression and a greater degree of truthful- mess in news. A large number of these journalists both in Commu- nist and other countries have been prepared te run grave risks in defying government authority

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tatorships there is a spontaneous public desire for press freedom which is voiced whenever the controls are even slightly re- laxed.

During the 1956 uprising in Hungary, for instance, the sale of free newspapers “assumed the same importance as that of bread in the midst of the fight- ing in the streets."’

SHORT-LIVED FREEDOM

In Poland following the return of Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka, there was a genuine though short - lived emancipation of the press, the report said. But the Polish experiment in press freedom soon was severely cur- tailed to avoid provoking Russia.

“The Polish experience shows that under the Communist sys- tem, the press—even in the best conditions—can never enjoy any- thing more than a form of super- vised liberty.”

thaw in 1956 and 1957 during which one paper, the Kuang- Ming Jihapao, went so far as to criticize President Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou En-lai. But in the summer of 1957 the Commu- nist party unleashed a campaign of “ideological rectification” in which the editorial staff of the Kuang-Ming Jih-Pao was purged. In the non-Communist dictator- ships, press freedom is generally subject to less rigid restrictions and censorship, the report said.

SPANISH CENSORSHIP

In Spain, criticism is permitted only of municipal affairs. Num-

{erous subjects are taboo. Never-

theless, the Spanish press ‘‘is far from being completely muzzled

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The death of Mrs. Peter E. Holland, R.N., 14- Prince -Street occurred last evening at the Char- lottetown ee, after a short illness.

The late Mrs. ’ Holland was born. at East Point, P.ELl., daughter of James Angus Bea- ton and Mary Ford When quite young she entered the Boston City Hospital graduating’ as a registered nurse in 1916. Shortly after the U.S.A. entered “World War I she joined the American Army, proceeding overseas the same year. She saw service in England, France and Belgiom and was repatriated a year af- ter the end of hostilities.

Returning to P. E. Island she married the late Peter E. Hol- land then CNR agent at Elmira. For many years she was the only nurse in that district and often was called on to assist friends and neighbours in time of sickness.

In 1932 the family moved to Souris, residing there for years. Coming to Charlottetown when the late Mr. Holland was appointed freight agent she was

forces tending towards freedom of expression.” It paid tribute to the part

played -by the newspapers of Ve-| nezuela in helping the overthrow, of ex-president Marcos Perez Ji-|—

menez. It singled out the Domin- ican Republic, Paraguay, Bolivia and Nicaragua as the Latin Am- erican nations still maintaining restrictions on press freedom.

In Egypt. press criticism of the regime of President Gamal Abdel Nasser is inconceivable, the re port said.

In southeast Asia. several coun-

tries, including Nationalist China, | South Korea, South Vietnam, In- |

donesia and Thailand have im- posed restrictions on their news- papers, it added.

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She is survived by two sons and one daughter, Rev. Charles D. Holland, S. J., Toronto; Henry F., Stephenville, Nfld., and Bea- trice, Mrs. Francis "A. White, Souris West. Also by one step- son and one step-daughter, Ja- seph, Toronto and Anne. Andrew McLean, New Glasgow, N.S.

1949. Her stepson Lt. Thomas D. Holland was lost in the sinking of the mine sweeper ‘“‘Guys- borough” in 1945 and her step- daughter, May passed away at Souris in 1940.

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Point and three sisters, Josephine and Ella, East Point and Mamie, Mrs. Dr. John Sullivan, Mel- ville, Sask. A brother, James died in New York last month.

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