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. j.warned bya certain’) 30 0 sow: j Min the Albert’ Hall; but’s! ‘Pde o™, ey Pit ' Tiis- said‘ithat Burgess*and ‘Maclean”'were ie man® that “British -*witnin an‘open society there is” ». Security had’ detected .- n° end te the hideous distrust - f . vt must causea,: oy SB tae, ' them as Soviet agents. “ “ret “us suppose” that : this. |, His name has been epi _ fly uate tas ben dele c@ secret. At a rough guess be even uglier than’ it need be. "tt would ‘have been’ just j.Then the British Government’a?. world :-a world 2 it . . ; ople who, unless they werad . | possible last week to house { Polley’ of denial’ in the pecomes Lor the ‘highest courene weed I ‘all the people who knew it: explicable, tury a ‘Calumay increaseds 9 sp. HE p licy' of silence becom This mian has not been - T rele since then the number has-/;7 ;good reason that it was - then Sir Winston Churchill found ‘ impossible to get legal proof “that to tell the truth about “(of a. warning given by word Burgess and Maclean would be to . comprehenalble if it be sup- , ph, ‘prosecuted, possibly -for the . posed that first Mr. Attlee and * “ would | bring imagination, and zest.” And knew .where the buried. He knew whe dies were buried, He knew all that there is . be known about the homosexuals of vulnerable 3 ~,be compelled to give undeserved : leertificates of characters and J “bolster up doubtful sto ': He also knew other peo opie - ‘J useful at such a time.” ri: example, in the late ‘thirtles he ‘ 4 ad been instructed b : ‘munist party British Fascist Sald that at one . rally he stood beside Hitler as - 1 ” Ley to” it! \ : rai ma? yet shag t “ anergy, 4 re nm at beat * 2,7 ries. a the Com- ~ : : . let & torrent of mud wash over _ he took the salute. Very few ! por mouth, particularly’ + if. Englishmen had been attracted j ' England and drown. the ‘there were a go-between, 4°) jee ge ell as the gull : “that as if may, this man ~ jp a.sea of gross calumny,-! : , is the centre of a spreading and , © . ‘deg ding spot of doubles ate Burgess and Mactean would | ie ~« Suspicion 4q ‘story behind, them, ‘The oddly : .+., Incompetent ‘security work was: “TLE® us call him A.B. He. dence. ‘| * Ineptitude of the White-paper.' ip which Bu ess and Mocs Surely no. sane person ‘would } i were employed, Let us suppose... Seriously State. that it was. that an ordinary Londoner ig . impossible’ for the police to , acquainted with three of these’ Walch an Isolated house in the, * people, C..D., E, F.,.and G. H,. country. unless he was a house e knows that C, D. is a homo- ', agent, trying to’sell a castle on.” tt Sexual, that_E. F.. joined the.:-the Yorkshire moors to . Sity and left it some years later, : &F: and that G. H. is a decent soul,’ ; and * knew the | diplomats be- é ‘ : Calise his parents .knew theirs. { * 7 - en Be RES +. The scandal will darken and: B4P as this story was, it was { a the “Londoner's knowledge‘! ithe ” duty’ of Burgess : and £ Of these men, Inevitably he will : Maclean: to do everything: they.; information, and th eBuspect all these three men of. could to make that story worse. '!- to '¢Communism of which none is * - They were under an obligation -. pppen to lay a bogus trail behind them : {ts mark on the landsca »Builty, and of homosexuality, of. , which only one is pullty. In-'' which would divert: suspicion ,fvitabiywaiso be will smear the.’ from the Communists wits hod i to which they really” been their aldes: and r belpng with a big, black smear,” throw it on innocent. | ples bigger and blacker than it and these Communists,’ and all rves, © * others, had to join in the fame. is is & natural consequence | of Misleading the authorities. < ‘fot Gommunist activity, Once a~ Maclean ‘would not be as secret society establishes itself - od ot this: ag Burgess, yWho.; in any case have left a -bad rm to + would the Nazi cause. but Burgess: know them all.._ ey : too would be vulnerable. :- He must also have known a. great deal about . the British 3 * mmunist -Party, - ©. bound to poison public confi- underground. He. open... and J must have | wo &@ humber of people who * : Hy - kno belonged to an organisation:, | ‘Again we must reflect on the had left the party. Many of ; these ex-Communists would also” be vulnerable » and all were fair: game -to attack and involve. _ ‘Opposition ~~ nothi -* Distortions °°: “THE inguiry into tne Burgess + ‘As and Ma ; ik . an 7, clean affair has there- 5 , Communist Party at the Univer-*? cre ety, 3 Wusting foreign) ‘fore been met by an organised j based on distortions of faa org ng to conceal the truth. vis The Communists who were left; . Which has stuck i behin d have defended themselves‘! by lying testimony, ? | carefully - accurate érefore. hard controvert, ~ owe ee What has happened has left: pe. There ‘ ‘are men who are believed to be. enemies of this country by those ; who have worked with t In. war and in peace. During fthis . inquiry they ave not convificed } the authorities of their Om 5 cence, for. they do not fil the; Inning \Of this ingu Begin that were theirs at" the iry- But ! to infiltrate the; = -% parties. ‘Tt iat bd Nuremberg | + & i Peete ep AES, “Ett ee