Three newspapermen, from Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, are spending this year at the University as the first foreign journalists to receive grants from the Nieman Foundation.

They are Herbert J.E. Kane of the Christchurch (New Zealand) Press, Shane MacKay of the Winnipeg Free Press, and Edmond V. Tipping of the Melbourne Herald.

As Nieman Associates, the three share the privilege of their American colleagues, the Nieman Fellows. They can take any courses they want here, and at the end of a year each returns to his job. From now on, three journalists from the British Commonwealth will be chosen each year to be Nieman associates.

A political reporter and acting city editor for the Winnipeg Free Press, MacKay covered the 1946-'47 atom spy trials in Ottawa and states that there was very little sensationalism or hysteria associated with the trials.

Tipping, who is chief-of-staff of the Melbourne Herald, spent several years during the last war flying with the Royal Air Force and publicizing the air crews. Commenting on Australia's immigration restrictions against non-whites, Tipping said that political action is never taken on the problem because every Australian government in power always supports the quota system.

The third Nieman associate, Kane, is chief-of-staff of the Christchurch Press. This is an administrative position, he explained, which corresponds to "city editor" here.