SuC—Please allo'w me to correct a mis-statement in your note,
"Towards a Press Council?' You say the draft constitution for such a body prepared by representatives of the various newspaper proprietors' associations, the Institute of Journalists and the National Union of Journalists. . . . " The draft was prepared only by the newspaper proprietors' associations. It was submitted to representatives of the Guild of British Newspaper Editors, the Institute of the National Union of Journalists at the Savoy Hotel on January 9th, and that was the first knowledge that members of the journalists' organisations had of it. In your last sentence you say, "Half the Council, or not much less, should be nominated by the two bodies which represent working journalists." This should be three—possibly more. The proprietors themselves included the Guild as an association to be consulted.—Yours
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