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: So It lz interesting to read the British newspapers ee. Like Senator Joe McCarthy they are _castigating ’ the government ‘for refusing to disclose the full facts. Like McCarthy who called the Tydings report on Com- munist Infiltration a “whitewash,” the Daily Telegraph cries out, “The White Paper is wholly unconvincing, even asa whitewash.” “It is time,” says the Telegraph, : “for a commission to eXamine our security system and its responsibility to the public.” . i The normally cautious Manchester Guardian says ‘The impression most people will form is that the se- curity authorities did not take a very sérlous view of Burgess and Maclean.” That sounds like Attorney Gen- eral Brownell's charge against Truman’s casual pro- motion of the Communist stooge Harry Dexter White, - which was denounced as “McCarthyism.” The Sunday | Times makes a sudden discovery, “We have all been reminded that commuriism is not Merely a theory, but | an international conspiracy, and we relax our vigil © toward it at our peril.” Senator Jenner’s committee re- | port on subversion in the government might have used the same words. _ The most interesting comment on the British Com- munist spy case was recorded in News of the World; “The Burgess and Maclean affair gave Senator Mc- Carthy lots of ammunition when he was conducting * Kis witch hunt, and when Amiericans. read our White mes ne Paper, more than a few wil say: L. told you so: Mc- : (aethy wes riaht 7? ~~ % ik od san We Ce te The belated discovery in Britain that cammunism Is more than just a political theory was a long time in the making. It took the enterprise of an American newsmagazine to expose the truth, neither British press nor government were much Interested. Well, it’s better Jate than never. We'll be cheering on the new "Mee - Carthyism” in Great Britain, however, instead of tell: ee them, as they did us, to forget about the whole hing. we eae ae Pepe’