The Press: Don’t Mention It

In Atlantic City last week, where the UNRRA council was meeting, a Soviet member of the council asked a U.S. official to coach him for meetings with the press. His tutor explained carefully the differences between “on the record,” “not for attribution” and “off the record.” Replied the Soviet’s Nikolai Ivanovich Feonov: “It’s simpler in the Soviet Union. If it is ‘off the record,’ we do not say anything.”