Abstract
The summer passed quietly on the international press scene, though the undertone of restlessness and economic perplexity continued in the United Kingdom and Western Europe. The promise of more paper found British daily publishers wondering if they were not bound in the pattern of operations based on scarcity of newsprint so long as the price of paper continued around 55 £ a ton.
A rewritten defamation law passed the British House of Commons. L'Echo of Paris continued its valuable series on the experiences of individual newspapers since the Liberation. The editor of World's Press News, Mr. Arthur J. Heighway, whose work had greatly improved the journal and set the pace in London, left his post in a disagreement with the management. I. P. I. Report continued its superb coverage of international journalism.
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