◆ SpookStack

9 - George—' / / Brown accuses |, Lord Thomson told newspaper owner Lord Thomson last night that his Sunday Times was doing “a very great disservice to the country” pvG_ The Foreign Secretary was _ Spparen ly referring to a series in the Sunday Times on the espying activities of Kim~Philby. He told LotaTnemion sharply: “It 1s about time we stopped giving the Russians half a start on what we are doing .. It is about time you sbut up.” Mr. Brown was speaking at a dinner given by Lord thomson for leading Brit- ish and American indust- Tlalists at the Savoy Hotel. In_a preamble to his pre- Pared speech, Mr. Brown said: “ As I understand it, you own the Sunday Tim J understand that the Sun- day Times is somehow your keeping, and some other papers, so ar A lot of us, my dear Ro: will be much happier ff yo) exercise a little control, C_p- yy BSNOV qi 1987 Dari dr fe _ ~ “DEGRADING “May I say to you and to Denis Hamilton [editor-in- chief and chief executive of ‘The Times and the Sunday Times) {t may seem rather clever to score that sort of point which in earller days he Express and the Mirror acored. But in these days to see the Sunday Times conduct the game kind of row with the Observer and the Telegraph seems to some of us to be degrading the papers, my dear Roy, which you reckon ju are running. *Y don’t really mind, or any of us in the Government zeally mind. » But I tell you, you are doing ‘or your papers are doing under your control—what I think is a very great dis- service to this country and © a very great disservice to the affairs which we ought to control. *Iam your guest, but I must make this quite clear. think it is time you stopped. Your business js to fight the other papers off. “sToP’ Some of us are concerned about the country, Some of ‘us think it is about time we stopped giving the Rus- sians half a start on what we are doing and, my dear Roy, I ask you and the Sunday Times to take this into account and for God’s sake stop.” There was a ripple of applause and Mr. Brown continued: “Around this room there are more than those who clapped. It is about time you stopped. It is about time you Mr. Brown went on: thas nothing to do with Denotices or anything else. It js about time you stopped, and if you are not entitled to control the paper — you and Denis Hamilton—somebody ought to be. “You are ruining a. lot of things. If you don’t want to be a Cyrus Eaton...” {Cyrus Eaton, an American industrialist, has kept up & rsonal relationship with viet leaders.] When Mr. Brown's speech was over Lord Thomson told the guests: “We don't always take George very seriously, and now you have a very good picture of the man who 1s Foreign Secretary of this great country. the Right Honourable George Brown.” After the dinner Lord Thom~ son said he was not willing ry DELETED Copy seny Ac Gacw RY LETTER Gis}. vER OSS Cer aeaeert — Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gele Rosen Sullivan —_____ Tavel = Trotter —____ Tele. Room Holmes Gandy ——_____ we FOIA REQUEST The Washington Post Times Herald The Washington Daily News ‘The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily 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 Sun LAg e / Zz Cn den) , fa ¥s-A y