Show AN ALARMING PROPOSAL 1 There is good reason for alarm over the recent recommendation of the Commission on Government Security that would make it a federal crime to publish information which by any past government security All responsible American journalists recognize the need for safeguarding information that would affect the national security or But once a secret escapes through government through some failure of its federal power to suppress it by fine and prison sentences upon America's citizens and press could be terribly more dangerous than the security History maks it tragically clear that punishing the press for publishing facts is fatal to a nation's Aware of the of the first ten amendments to the U. S. Constitution provided that shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the And this principle has precedence as the first article of our Bill of Rights not to favor the press but to perpetuate our people's freedom to be The violation of this principle proposed by the so-called Wright Commission would reduce our national law to the level of Peron's dictatorship in where news reporters and their papers were subject to prosecution for the crime of |