THE KISS AND TELL MEMOIRS

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THE REPORTER
November 30, 1967
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--au of Intelligence the White House nanny broke hI&OL l: Weir private e .; subject matter fort he with us fit
and Research, and for ten months fettle--
anal it wa.1 all wry P05donate beamIldri, Like NUN 8,11inge't In
aftel. that lie W,14 t ho Amhuttl~ @ r,@. 9 e -tit Ieodus. What di With
tary of State for Far Eastern Affairs. emerge uitewasti the, facts t at many Amba ad relyto' for Kenya instanceWilli,am forme Att-
When Mr. iilsman's memoir of' people did not think of secrecy and wood, in a memoir called The Reds
those three years, To Move a Nation, openness as neutral conditions, and the Blacks, was relatively re
came out a few months ago, it got which could be either helpful or strained concerning people at their
mixed reviews. That is to say, the harmful to our larger democratic'' desks in Wa I book rc :e. vers . liked it and Mr Hil
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`"ROM 1961 to 1963, Roger Hils- tory, and the cat and the Man. ments do not consider the substance
man was director of the State' chester book, and whether o
Department's n
purposes. Rather, they regarded se Attwood freely nrrep odu ed the de.
man's .:;_::ier colleagues in govern-. crecy as being in itself and at all tails of his discussions with mem-
me= t c,id not. Both were reacting times inimical to those purose
to =.e same as
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p r Hil' p s-a
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Yatta's government,
.smans .view that overlooks, among man y ' i n n
omoen book: its extensive disclosur
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co se consequenceof which our resent
- other things, our attitude toward the ambassador has scarcely been able
formation that the government had ballot box and the sentiments we to get the time of day in Nairobi
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consid rec:' confidential, were expressing not so very long ago for the year that he has been there
yn its way, To Move a Nation
tevens caps the trend to political indiscre- attl ckeddflai or Sthe prio p n was vate counselthe to pledge that he w '
y' although he went so far as publicly ',',?.
don that has become ever more gave during the Cuban missile crisis. the confid
would not betray
pronounced in the memoirs of th
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ences of th K
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een att
gov.
. time,
the con Kennedy ye~-.rs-a trend that h
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as hl
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asemocracy could hardlyJust ao or ote wised raised a number of questions we all tion so long as advisers
Y Just as these twin considerations
find somewhat uncomfortable to j_ A_. to the Presi of
ossible a w_ _
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to and pieces of their confidential cony been 1r led di relationships have
Jud a the merit of a book that is versations would be disclosed and oirists, so there are differences bask; largely on material to which used against them. been treated differently e the mem-
we h
too
ave no access? And
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then; e
aybe thecasewas s di rationatthat of divulging classified
cite he point we most studiously we are rarely calm ooverstated on this subject. ` material. On the whole i
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avoid-sre the proprieties and im- But certainly any accounting of the , principal memoirs the movement
Proprieties of all this secret-barin ? in the three
g price we may pay for piercing 'too has been
onwardd
an upard.
years ago, when these thany veils at public noffcials,uwho afterance
all th
is more allusive anodirec Sorensen
bookse}.;~ to appears, there was cannot respond in kind, will be un- is talking about material that has
some argument about them__espe- justly treated, and that there will not been declassified, t when ds
cially about the early installments of be a subsequent erosion of what con- to quote advisers without identtify
tends
Arthur Schlesinger's 4 Thousand fidence and frankness exist inside them. Usually we can guess uess he who they
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Days. However, as it .u. ;.could have government. The principle-and the . are, however, and if ot
it, soon bo 7 a
gged down in a debate risk-applY to our foreign relations we
about secrecy, and can
always go look them up in Mr.
privacy, and his. as well. Apparently many govern. Schlesinger, whose own more copious
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