Foreign News

More and more do U. S. citizens demand news of the many foreigners to whom, since the War, they have become commercially and politically attached through treaty, tract and contract. So that their readers might have more intelligence of what happens beyond the sea, many a U. S. newspaper and press bureau has recently augmented its foreign service.

Surprised indeed were newspapermen when, six months ago, the Chicago Daily News whose late Editor Victor Fremont Lawson with Melville Elijah Stone developed the Associated Press, enhanced its foreign news with A. P.'s "opposition." United Press. Last week came another event. Simultaneous with the announcement that United Press had extended its service into its 18th language (Icelandic )', the New York Herald Tribune made known that henceforth it would use full U. P. service, domestic and foreign. With its own overseas bureaus and the A. P. and U. P. the Herald Tribune was putting itself in a position to rival the stately semi-officialdom of the Times in the field of foreign news.

The New York Sun, which has just availed itself of Consolidated Press Service, last week published a congratulatory letter from Prime Minister Andre Tardieu (L'Americain) of France. Said he: "I take particular pleasure in this because I was myself one of the Consolidated Press Association's earliest contributors when it inaugurated the happy plan of opening its wires to Europeans in political life, permitting them to express freely their views to the American public. ... So far as a government can exercise by frankness and honesty an educative influence on public opinion in both countries, I promise you that so long as I remain in office I shall do everything in my power ... to achieve that salutary end."

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