The Press: Don't Swallow Everything

In the shabby George Washington Inn, where California Democrat John Moss's House Information subcommittee began looking into the Kennedy Administration's news policy last week, the talk kept coming back to the same subject: the stumbling tongue of Pentagon Press Secretary Arthur Sylvester. And Sylvester was a sitting duck for the eleven publishers, broadcasters and reporters who turned up to testify. What riled the witnesses particularly was Sylvester's statement about last October's Cuba crisis that the Government has the "right, if necessary, to lie to save itself when it's going up into a nuclear war."

That is "a philosophy of totalitarianism utterly foreign...

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