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George Brown’s Outyy ¥ ' - =7 w- FROM PAGE ONE off relations with the British Preas, At first he referred the r ters to the ted For: Oftce version oe et his formal essed him, he unded ir rounded: “Will you just shut up for a Ferner that” And the sholted : ing a bloody £ answer one question before get another ? My speech runs to 4 pages—if you just print of white declared : Chalfont on me—full stop. ‘You {ust hoody, hell” hell speculate every pow and again?" The a reporter tried to return Tam answer- question. Can Tt Speculating ournng Himself a glass wine, Mr, Brown “You can't do a speculating, Why shouldn't you Philby question, he “Will you shut up? I broke no bloody rules at all. If you break them, 1 will know where I am-—d'accord ? “You are free to break any rules. If I too, and you can tell Cudlipp and Cecil King" (a reference to the Daily Mirror chiefs]. As the argument dragged on a Foreign Office official tried to pull Mr. Brown away by the left arm. Mr. Brown shook free. He told reporters: “ Write this down. No one will write it down—no one will risk sending it back.” The reporters —- crowded round by American broadcast- ing and big-business executives —asked if the Foreign Secre- tary would give clear guidance on what his remarks had been referring to. “So far as you heard it you are entitled Teport it" was all he would say. “Just that alone.” Then Mr. Brown asked the reporters to put down their pencils. — They did so and he ah bee em ° Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale ~ Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter urst he ordered. “ Let's hear. his.” He turned to me: “You said it—the man from the Express has said it. Now set them all hear it, If 1 do pot talk to the Press—what ? addressed them on the back- round te the Lord Chalfont ident. My notepaper was in m\ pocket, but my pencil was ir my hand. Mr. Brown snatchec it from me and threw it op the table. Explaining During this discussion-—while waiters were clearing the tables in the Abraham Lincoln Roon/ and overcoated Americans” returned to make a crowd of at least 50 round the Foreign Secretary—Mr. Brown said he was prepared to stop speaking to the Press on an attributable or non-attributable basis and to rely solely on official Foreign Office releases. I suggested that the only loser would be himself, Mr. Brown seized on the point and demanded an explanation If told him : “If you do not speak to the Press you do not spe sinters? to the country. He grabbed my hand os turned to the audience. “ iet,’ The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) Baily News (New York) ————- Sunday News (New York} New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s World Hi-f{-t¢7 it 4 The man from th gaid itso be it.” And alked out, accompanied fe worrled: looking Foreign O aide, 1 Date arate Dagé # Len den ns anata = een Fy oc trl pe “- bs forge wall-e ee mB 2 tt male Pied wate” Sh Ae Picnsine