Open-Shut Policy

Freedom or Secrecy, by James Russell Wiggins. 242 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. $4.00

Mr. James Russell Wiggins, executive editor of the Washington Post, believes that the people have a right to know more about public affairs than current laws and regulations permit them to know. This, at any rate, is the contention of Freedom or Secrecy, and who is to gainsay the sincerity of the man who once put up $1,000 to keep Paul Hughes in groceries, on behalf of the public’s “right to know” about the alleged perfidy of the McCarthy Committee?

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Freedom or Secrecy, by James Russell Wiggins. 242 pp. New York: Oxford University Press. $4.00

Mr. James Russell Wiggins, executive editor of the Washington Post, believes that the people have a right to know more about public affairs than current laws and regulations permit them to know. This, at any rate, is the contention of Freedom or Secrecy, and who is to gainsay the sincerity of the man who once put up $1,000 to keep Paul Hughes in groceries, on behalf of the public’s “right to know” about the alleged perfidy of the McCarthy Committee?