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. - ee -.7 ‘ ; ~ . HF ey * fs, 4 Fr s re ‘ ys a t 4 are ee a re aie | The bitter joke brought ap- | Lo . . . am’: . ‘Dpause from many 0. ie rs, as HERE is a Communist Fifth Column in stfd Lord Astor drove home & Oe Britain, people dedicated to a task with - _ in 2 cold ee a Brit st: ~ on “: "+5 flo stendards of honour, no patriotism, and no om that noe earonal practiges Pa A A i ' He said: “No organisation possibility of compromise, Viscount Astor sai | OF body of any men should -... yesterday in a grave warning given to the Lords. We must “be pet security. Opening a debate on the missing. Security has the fullest co-opera- tion from all departments, The - security services must have’ “ro ample facilities in men, money, ; and technical means." ae diplomats, Maclean’ and “| Burgess, Lord Astor said it - > “was “ remarkable” that the ."" people of Britain have been 2°) so slow in’ realising - the theory of Communism and its importance. , “We have got to recognise,” . he told the House, “that for’ the ’ ‘+. first time since the reign of Queen - . . Ejizabeth the First, we have a Fifth a mn-m this country—a Fifth Chlumn that has penetrated the - +) Lord Astor made it clear that} ~, he blamed the Government for: ° : the matter of the missing diplo- :. mats going on for so long, | bo gl ae, ~ 1 *In earlier stages,” he sald, . ye re ‘“ they seemed more concerned to hide the truth than uncover it with answers here and in the Commons giving the \Wwery mini- ‘mum of information. . : WITCH HUNT * {Unfortunate phrase i , “Inquiries, both journalistic’ - jand others, were discouraged.” - | It was unfortunate that the: an . ; : Minister of State shouid haves. i -- ‘highest ranks of the Civil Service, LORD ASTOR described those “trying to dis: “apparently the scientists, and even the Church. H cover the fruth as engaging in '__“ We are neither at peace, nor at war, but inla cold _. To try to uncover treason was | War, and we cannot judge measures it is right take ~-_ja88 much a duty as to prevent a! burglar An honest attempt to: by the normal standards of peace” ee, clea these matters up should pore ' Astor Ure ed the, that peeve, been stigmatised by strictest securlty measures, 58. _ 7 even if lt meant preventing fovea re we ament, nad come people leaving the country, said there had been @ great mis- He posed for the peers a plc- take and responsibility had been ture of what might happen if taken, it would have been far’ Britain went down under the better than “that curious White meeting o: e Prime Min . : 4 ; 3 with the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Caen e dora Astor criti Harold Macmillan. in one of the e Oe ment of Aclea BB corridors of the Lubianka Prison, ; cad of oe ¢ i er! gan De vir . Moscow. after q fierce interroga- - ae nit er Bs | idem le bey on. ‘ bo. . ; - 2 Loo : hed continued this extraordin-~ SECURITY ; ned Sontinued this extraordin , one frre it an — Cy be _ coat, . “29° The Brime Minister would ; ° | . le tédsay: “At least, my d ; . . eon, . - ewe e Sogsay : ; arald,” we did nothing to intgr- " fre with the Ubertles of Britith