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own, the Foreign Secre- ary, Said lastnight that The Sun- uy Times was doing a “ great dis- rvice to the country and a very eat disservice to the affairs which re Government ought to mutrol ‘ He was speaking at a dinner in undon given by Lord Thomson { Fleet for senior American usinessmen who are in England ora seminar on world affairs, In what was taken as a reference uo The Sunday Times series on the *hilby affair, he said: “ Itis about sme we stopped giving the Rus- sans half a start on what we are ving.” The Foreign Secretary had been + ebullient form from the quent he arrived at the dinner, aos late, to greet Lord vhoNson in a relaxed and vien@ly manner. In his speech he told Lord Thomson: “It is about time you shut up. “ May I say to you and to Denis Hamilton [Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive of The Times and The Sunday Times] it may seem rather clever io score the sort of point which in days earlier the Express and the Mirror scored. “But in these days to see The Sunday Times conduct the same 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 you are running. “LT don't really mind. 1 don't think Gore-Booth — [Permanent Under-Secreiary of Sigte al the Foreign Office, who was alio a guest at the dinner] or any of us an Government really mind. “Tam your guest but I must make this quite clear: 1 thiak it Y> is time you stopped. Your business is to fight the other papers off. “Some of us are concerned about the country, some of us think it is about time we stopped giving the Russians half a start on what we are doing and, my dear Roy, 1] 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. “This has nothing to do with D Notices or anything else. It is about time you stopped. You are ruining a Jot of thin, Mr. then turned to Britain's application to join the Common Market. While he agreed that France continued to see difliculties, he did not accept that there had been any | DeLoach Mohr Bishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan ——___ Tavel Trotter Tele. Room setback in the progress of c application as a result. “So as we know there was nothing n or surprising in the stance wh France adopted.” Britain was not changing cou one bit. “We want negotiatic to start, and start soon. And this we have the support of great majority of our fellow Eu peans. There is thus no cause all for dismay or hesitation. « the contrary, we are confident the outcome.” After Mr. Brown had ended speech, Lord Thomson told guests; “We don't always t. George very seriously and n you have a very good picture the man who is Foreign Secret of this great country, the Rt. George Brown.” After the dinner, Lord Them said he was not willing Fa anything to that statemené lgagm bis REG SU 2 se Syed? 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 Wall Street Journal The National Observer —_____ People’s World 4 “ft 165 . The New Leader P a eee - DELETED copy SENT 4 6 gos « TER Aft A ah Bae “A REQUEST a fae Debye Rig Pa *. - _ The [imes