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M rown, the Foreign Secre- ry, said lastnight that The Sun- ay Times was doing a “ great dis- -rvice to the country and a very -eat disservice to the affairs which vw Government ought = to mttrol moe! He was speaking at a dinner in ondan given by Lord Thomson { Fleet for senior American usinessmen who are in England ora seminar on world affairs, In what was taken asa reference a The Sunday Times series on the ‘hilby affair, he said: “ Itis about ime we slopped giving the Rus- ians half a start on what we are sing.” The Foreign Secretary had been » ebullient form from the ngnent he arrived at the dinner, onke minutes late, to greet Lord vhufyson in a félaxed and ciendly manner, ~~ > vy 4 In his speech he told Lord Thomson: “It is about time you shut up. “ May [say to you and to Denis Hamilton [Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive of The Times and The Sunday Times] it may seem rather clever io score the sort of point which in days earlier the Express and the Mirror scored. “But in these days to see The Sunday Times conduct the same kind of row with The Observer and the Telegraph seems to some of us lo be degrading the papers, my dear Roy, which you reckon you are running. “T don't really mind. [| don’t think Gore-Booth [Permanent Under-Secreiary of Sizte al the Foreign Office, who was alic u guest at the dinner] or any of us in Government really mind. “Tam your guest but I must make this quite clear: 1 thiak it VY) is time you stopped. Your business is to fight the other papers off. “Same of us are concerned about the country, some of us think it ts about time we stopped giving the Russians half a start on what we are doing and, my dear Roy, }ask you and The Sunday Times to take this into account and for God's sake stop.” There was a ripple of applause. and Mr, Brown continued: “Around this room there are more than those who clapped. It is about time you stopped. “This has nothing to do with D Notices or anything else. It is about time you stopped.... You are ruining a jot of things.” af. Bea wT. DB / then turned to Britain's application to join the Common Market. While he agreed that France continued to see difficulties, he did not accept that there had been any + re“ Pomes Hetaid The Washington Daily News The Evening Star (Washington) The Sunday Star (Washington) | DeLoach Mohr Rishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tave} Trotter Tele. Room setback in the progress of c application as a result. “So ; as We know there was nothing n or surprising in the stance wh France adopted.” Britain was no¢ changing cou one bit. “We want negotiatic to Start, and start soon, And this we have the support of - great majority of our fellow Eu peans. There is thus no cause all for dismay or hesitation. + the contrary, we are confident the outcome.” After Mr. Brown had ended speech, Lord Thomson told guesis: “We don’t always t. George very seriously and no you have a very good picture the man who is Foreign Secret of this great country, the Rt. George Brown.” After the dinners, Lord Them said he was not willing L anything to that statemen Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York) New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) . ny The Worker . The New Leader The Wali Street Journal Date - we * ‘ . rn ra Peale nity ear = i 7? cere - The National Observer People’s World - - -¢ rhe Times heh page! (Az cnden) ma wos *e! on Foe.