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ee ’ that, 0-19 (1}-22-55) These Days ° | ° | e ® ® By George Soubeky Tilting the Balance AN IMPORTANT document before me is the “Statement on the Findings of the Confer- ence of Pr vy Councilors on Security.” Tt monen is not the re- port that was made to the British gov- ernment but a summary of it issued to the * public as a Jf white paper. j _ Undoubted- ly, the privy councilors were appoint- ed to deal with this matter on account of the Burgess and MacLean scandal which can no longer be suppressed. It is now known that these two not only acted as Russian agents in Great Britain and the United States, but that they &re now employed by the Rus- sian Foreign Ministry, The conference, “points out whereas once the main Sokolsky ‘risk to be guarded against was espionage by foreign powers } The Comrinnist faith ‘to his country and . Munists is not, however, con- carried eut by professional agents, today the chief risks are presented by Communists and by other persons who for one reason or another are sub- ject to Communist influcnce. | over- norma! Joyalties | induces ; the heliof that it is Justifiable . tou hand over secret informa: | tion to the Communist Party or to the Communist foreign power. This risk from Cum- rides a maw’s fined to party members, either open or underground, but ex- tends to sympathisers with communism.” THIS HAS BEEN the atti- | tude of American congres- sional committees since Mar- tin Dies and is called by the | Communists, McCarthyism. In the last sentence of the quota- tion it is assumed that the; fellow-traveler is as wicked as _the member of the Party and the only way to establish a | fellow-traveler according to | nearly 20 years of investiga: | tion, has been by association. In fact in the sixth para.’ graph of the report, it is’ st n t the chiefproniems of security today is thus to identify the members of the British Communist Party, “to be informed of its activities and to identify that wider body of those who are both sympathetic to communism, or susceptible to Communist pressure and present a danger to security. Thereafter steps must be taken to see that secret information is not han- died by anyone who, for idco- logical or other motives, may § betray it.” While guilt by association always leads to great injus- tices, it is only right that a gov- rnment snould resolve some doubts in its own favor; what it amounts to is a decision that ' whan in danht: ¢thare shauia WAAU AS Sh8 ASME, IRS GIVES be no employment. THIS REPORT was pre- pared by members of both parties, including Earl Jowitt, who wrote a book in defense of Alger Hiss; nevertheless its 15th paragraph contains a Statement of the rights of the government over the rights of the individual which almost amounts to a constitutional change in Britain: “The conference fs of the opinion that in deciding these © difficult and often borderline cases, it is right to continue the practice of tilting the bal- vance in favour of offering greater protection to the se- curity of the state rather than in the direction of safeguard- ing the rights of the individual, They recommend that an in- dividual who is living with a wife or husband wholis a Com- munist or a Communist sym- pathiser may, for that reason alone, have to be maved from secret work, and that] the same principle should be applied in other cases of a like nature.” The Russians changed our wa against ous wishes, slatement would |have ap- peared in an official British re- port two gencrations jago. (Coneciaktes 1956. Kir Srndicate, Id even reg inc. Fle B; “ “ i rice _ SF ries rae. r Cel say Oey rs a fo nor A NOT FFCOCTRHED 8 AL .956 Sor ae 34 : Pl agit eee pce a dtm ure have . No such” Ponvoas Rosen Tamm Nease Finterrowd Tele. Room _._._< yrs, Wash. News Wash, Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Daily News —— Daily Worker The Worker New Leader Date ___ 7 + > 1958