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Se ee Sa ee TE aN nen er aint = Meter sheen > "Post, recognized as the most influential newspaper in the nation's capital, and hence possibly in the world; and Reporter magazine, which numbers among : its subscribers Secretary of Defense McNamara and i Secretary of State Rusk, and for which President ‘f Kennedy has written at least one article. "Only last week the syndicated columnist Marquis Childs raised questions about the propriety of this. controversial film being shown to military personnel. He stated that although the film is strongly supported in the information and education office of the Department of Defense, ‘a report on the film prepared by the general counsel's office in (the Department of) Defense said that the House committee seemed to have encouraged the riots with the apparent end of showing how grave the opposition to the committee hearings was,’ Mr. Childs also reported that ‘after looking into the circumstances, State Depart- ment officials said they were uninterested’ in showing the film to their employes. "In the light of these questions about the film from reputable sources, there would appear to be some doubt about whether your account of the meeting at Central High School met the highest journalistic standards from the standpoint of objectivity, since ‘almost one-third of your news item was devoted to NX quotations from an FBI report tending to support the film and the committee, with no indication being given of the nature and substance of the adverse criticisms." Losgonges "The Washington Post has gone so far as to urge that the House Committee on Un-American Activities be abolished. Hundreds of well~known citizens signed a petition recently also calling for abolition of the committee. The signers included prominent perso from all areas of American life, such as ~ EleanordRoosevelt, he eminent theologians Harry Emersof\Fosdick and Réinhold Niebuhr, and ‘he Pulitzer prize-winning poet and Lincoln scholar, CarlkySandburg. Whether they are right or wrong, a these critics'or-the committee consider that some individuals summoned before it have in effect been put on trial without the judicial safeguards prescribed by the Constitution. ~ 10 - Jap ca AN oe