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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Sept. 30, 1963
TOUCHDOWN—The student section responds with traditional arm-waving when KU scored on Syracuse Saturday. The students were a part of a crowd of 35,000 people who attended the first home game of the season. At the halftime of the game, the new addition to the stadium was dedicated.
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Charges of News Suppression Emerge Over Viet Nam Strife
WASHINGTON—(UPI) —A Congressional subcommittee accused the state department today of having tried to hide the truth in Viet Nam, thus contributing to the public's surprise at recent unpleasant events there.
It placed the blame on a restrictive U.S. press policy that was rescinded last spring. The subcommittee said, for example, that U.S. officials were instructed not to take American correspondents on military operations likely to result in undesirable stories.
More than 14,000 U.S. military personnel now are training Diem's forces or engaged in other support activity which sometimes brings them under Communist fire. Although there has been no direct censorship of outgoing stories except for a few weeks recently, it has been charged that correspondents have been hampered in getting the news.
During hearings on the issue, the state department contended the major fault of the document was "sloppy drafting." It insisted the document was not intended to curtail the flow of information about U.S. activities in Viet Nam.
The subcommittee, headed by Rep. John E. Moss, D-Calif., based its findings on what it called a restrictive 1962 press guidance sent from Washington to Saigon. The classified document was issued jointly by the state department, the defense department and the U.S. Information Agency.
But the subcommittee report said that soon after the press guidance was issued, newsmen began reporting difficulties getting information from U.S. officials in Viet Nam.
The Congressman took to task Carl Rowan, former deputy assistant secretary of state, who was identified as the official who drafted the press directive.
"On Sept. 29, 1961 . . . Rowan . . . said at New York University that any contention that the people's right to know is an absolute and fundamental principle is self-deception," the report commented.
"He expressed his conviction that those concerned with the right to know are really more interested in the Fourth Estate's right to make a buck."
Rowan, now U.S. ambassador to Finland, was a prize-winning news-paperman before joining the Kennedy administration. He emphasized in his New York speech that while a government official should be dedicated to insuring a full flow of information to the public, he still was under oath to protect the vital interests of our country and its people.
"Not a day goes by but what those of us in government must make this kind of judgment dozens of times," Rowan said. "In a period of undeclared war, we constantly must decide how far we can go in providing the well-informed populace without which a free society became a mockery without violating our oath to protect this country from all enemies, foreign and domestic."
The subcommittee rejected Rowan's thesis and characterized him as an official with an admitted distrust for the people's right to know.
Although the directive never has been made public, the report said it stated that "news stories which criticize the Diem government could not be forbidden, but they only increase the difficulties of the U.S. job."
Newsmen should be advised that trifling or thoughtless criticism of the Diem government would make it difficult to maintain cooperation between the United States and Diem.
"Newsmen should not be transported on military activities of the type that are likely to result in undesirable stories."
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