A History of the International Movement of Journalists by Kaarle Nordenstreng Ulf Jonas Bj�rk Frank Beyersdorf Svennik H�yer & Epp Lauk

Author:Kaarle Nordenstreng, Ulf Jonas Bj�rk, Frank Beyersdorf, Svennik H�yer & Epp Lauk
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Embroiled in Cold War Politics: IOJ and IFJ (1946–)

Kaarle Nordenstreng

After the collapse of the FIJ, in December 1941, when World War II was still in its early stage, a new organization was established in London called the International Federation of Journalists of Allied or Free Countries (IFJAFC).1 Its constitution begins with a declaration where the IFJAFC

regards itself as holding in trust the spirit and work of the Fédération Internationale des Journalistes. Its fundamental principle is to safeguard and support the freedom of the Press; its activities will be guided by this and by the resolve to see the FIJ re-established on a stronger, universal basis after the war.

At the time of its second congress in October 1942, the IFJAFC had members in Australia, Brazil, Belgium, Britain, Czechoslovakia, ‘Free France’, Greece, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the USSR and Yugoslavia. Its President was Archibald Kenyon of the UK, its two Vice Presidents Alexander Sverlov of the USSR and Tor Gjesdal of Norway, its Treasurer Jiří Hronek of Czechoslovakia and its secretary L. A. Berry of the UK.

The IFJAFC was guided by ‘the resolve to see the FIJ re-established on a stronger, universal basis after the war’. On this basis an appeal was launched by its last congress, which met in London in March 1945, to convene a world congress of journalists and to set up a new international organization with the widest possible participation of newspapermen from all over the world (Figure 4.1).

The IOJ founded 1946–47

The World Congress of Journalists in Copenhagen on 3–9 June 1946 was in many respects a manifestation of the positive post-war spirit: 165 delegates of journalists’ unions from 21 countries extending from the USA to the USSR, from Greece to Iceland, from Australia to Peru, in the presence of a high-ranking representative of the new United Nations (UN), which had been set up to carry on the work of the former League of Nations. The venue was the Danish Parliament building in a country liberated from fascism. Official support for the congress was also manifest in the fact that it was opened by the Crown Prince of Denmark.

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