Secrecy and the Reporter
Too much national policy is fully formed nowadays before press and public, are let in on the facts. By the time the news is out, the great decisions have already been taken. JAMES B. RESTON, diplomatic correspondent of the New York Times, who received the Pulitzer Prize for national correspondence in 1945, calls for earlier action, and more of it, by the Washington reporters. This article gives the substance of the William Allen White Lecture which Mr. Reston delivered recently at the University of Kansas.