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Issues and Answers (ABC, 4:30-5 p.m.). Guest: the U.S. Information Agency's Edward R. Murrow...
Edward R. Murrow, director, U.S. Information Agency LL.D...
...U.P.I. editors, Goldwater made a slashing, campaign-style attack on President Kennedy's "response to blackmail demands" in the Cuban tractor deal. Goldwater denounced U.S. Information Agency Director Edward R. Murrow (who has defended the deal) as a "Government-paid huckster," declared that "if official policy is so shaky that the USIA has to be utilized to sell it to our own people, then that policy should be abandoned in favor of one that the American people can support." Labeling John Kennedy's cold war policy as "almost calculated confusion," Goldwater called for the President to lay down...
...last April when the Overseas Weekly mounted an all-out assault on General Walker, charged that by pamphlet and speech he was indoctrinating his troops with the far-right politics of the John Birch Society. Walker, the paper reported, had made public statements to the effect that Edward R. Murrow and Columnist Walter Lippmann were "confirmed Communists" and that 60% of the U.S. press was Communist controlled. As a result of the story. General Walker was relieved of his command. Walker has sued an Overseas Weekly reporter for slander-and Marion Rospach has sued the general for slander. Suddenly, after...
...carefully documented exposés of officers abusing their rank. According to the Overseas Weekly, Walker was stuffing his troops with the rightist rantings of Birch Society Founder Robert Welch, once made a public speech in which he called President Truman "definitely pink" and TV's Edward R. Murrow a "confirmed Communist." A man of towering temper, Walker was so enraged when he heard of Murrow's appointment as director of the U.S. Information Agency that his staff officers feared to go near...