"The Associated Press has just come through a test, perhaps the most severe that it has ever had to undergo, these four and a half years, in which the quality of every institution and perhaps the quality of every single individual, has been tested. Ancient empires have fallen; crowns and thrones have crumbled; systems of government have disappeared, showing their dangers and immoralities, and even the machinery of international intercourse has had to go under repair. Yet The Associated Press has stood the test and stood it well. It has today, as it had before the war, the respect of the whole world. It is easy to understand it. There are things which cannot die; the worship of truth is one of them." 