"The invasion of Grenada, or, if you prefer, the rescue operation in Grenada," as

Mr. Buckley sets the stage, "left the country with the one great question during the first day or two, namely: Should we have done it? But before we knew it, it appeared that the majority of America's newsmen and intelligentsia were discussing not so much should we have gone in as the near criminality of going in without complete freedom of movement by the press." Although Mr. Lewis had been one of the complainers, he starts out by saying, "I share your implied distaste for the notion that the most important thing in the world is the position of the press in life. I don't think that, and any sort of special pleading and self-pity I don't like." To Mr. Clurman, "As to the motive of the military in not wanting the press, that is both completely understandable and in my view completely

intolerable." And we're off on a crackling three-way exchange on whether the press nowadays can be trusted as it could, say, during the Normandy landing, and whether the culture of leaking that began during the Vietnam War had become a permanent fixture. WFB: "Mr. Lewis, if you have a Cabinet meeting, and you decide which way you will tilt as between Pakistan and India, and you read about it in Jack Anderson's column the next day, are you excessively worried about secrecy?"