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...girl always managed to meet, spat, resolve their differences and legally wed within 2,500 words. Now the Post goes in for hurry-up, behind-the-scenes exposés-such as last week's "In Time of Crisis," a panting account of the Cuban confrontation by Charles Bartlett, Washington correspondent for the Chattanooga Times, and Stewart Alsop, the Post's Washington editor...
...their article, In Time of Crisis, Alsop and Bartlett claim to give the public an inside scoop on the high-level deliberations which led to key decisions during the crisis. Their facts are wrong and their interpretations are grossly oversimplified, but worst of all they discuss the supposedly confidential positions taken by Stevenson and others at National Security Council meetings. The article quotes an anonymous official as saying: "Adlai wanted a Munich.... He wanted to trade Turkish and British missile bases for Cuban bases...
...probes. No high government official can do his job if his private advice to the President becomes public information. In the Stevenson case, President Kennedy was obligated to keep secret the advice given him, rather than to open State Department, White House and CIA sources to Alsop and Bartlett...
...hilt if he wishes him to be effective in the United Nations. There is little evidence that the President wishes to get rid of Stevenson. He has had nothing but praise for the Governor's performance in the U.N. Contrary to the allegations of Alsop and Bartlett, Stevenson contributed to the successful outcome of the Cuban showdown: he supported the arms blockade and opposed an invasion of Cuba at the risk of nuclear war. Stevenson never advocated a swap, as he did on October 27. On Stevenson's advice Kennedy postponed his blockade speech, thus gaining OAS support...
Although the President must take the chief responsibility for the consequences of this affair, Alsop and Bartlett are guilty of the worst kind of reckless journalism. They did not even report correctly who was at the meetings and they misquoted those who did attend. The reporters oversimplified the debate by dividing those officials involved into "hawks" and "doves." The article is full of cliches and melodramatic devices. If Alsop and Bartlett had accurately reported Stevenson's statements the present furor might never have arisen. But accurate or inaccurate, the article has set a dangerous precedent. Leaks from the top will...