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Don Polson cane back to Weshingsen a very Garried mon abors tho state of the natson. While ho hasn't yot provided a date fo chatting, he has talked to several of his povernmaent friends, and. his ex SCret Ty BOS cree releys the followl atoplbutioa to oon ag yets cite elson wag chatting ‘tho otvher night after we'd finished work- ing. Ho had been reading tho papers, and watching this war prod uction improvement drive. He turned to me, and said: © “04e3 ma i'm worried, | live been Goeling with the public now for 35 yoore, and if I've learned one thing. f've lewned this: you cannot drive the public; you can lead 4%, but you can't drive it. fThit 48 what I'm afraid the government heade are wnahe to do right now, and I'm afraid for the government in thie situr tion." What Nelson didn't say then, but what has a lot of governmont topsiders worried, isa wht Ghey feol is a lamentable public relations {not just press relations, but publie relutions) eituation in the government. | | | . Brig. Gen. AL Broming just had a sample of it, on his recent trip to France, whsre he saw Eisenhover, and spont tine with all of the Gommanders thers. | | "We were at the press conference which I heid for the crowd of business men I had in tow,” Browning explained. "T stor ted of f lambasting the newspaper men and women. Z told them th: t I'd just been up te the front lines, and that I had seen how wo'd ads vance 400 yards, and then see rosy stories coming out about a greot advance. I asked them why didn’t thoy tell the truth in their atories for back home.