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rf ee Cer ee raed HESE DAYS: = 70 8 Burgess, Maclean © . . . : . “acgtg be : Vaudeville Act"... By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY*y:', “- 2 Ha! . Cee ey ech always raw impudence, He 7 moe catrutae dist hibited Burgess and Maclean for five minytes just do. Obviously they were not free men or they would wve stayed 10 minutes or half an hour.’ Their sche as five “ps and that Is all they had, That they .- i" H oe 4 1 4 * 5 7 beeen e treated As slaves—intellectual slaves—is apparent a om the pAture of their interview. 2707+" feck ’ Yor several years now, I have been writing spout ese fellows and I have been seeking out their relati n~ ips in our State Department. ‘The Communist rs universal and a member is under Party vane ea thin his own cell. While they were in je. re ee Burgess and Maciean were 1 Rio el in Washington which eported to ae coms - ‘i ho received direct orders if x“ om & Moscow courier, Sooner or later, some Con-..- - -. | nt than by keen. | ‘essional Committee, more by soi emeriean member i t a : Tae ~ Tee Teta FO hen 2 ~ Ps 1¥ tion, will trip across some ' 7 “Thar cell "and we shall have the picture of and ae: a ' signage system involving our State Deparact nd * + lf si ee Buitich Foreign Office. When that Sah ow 4 Ff? pal j | will startle many complacent Americaf Twit 9 “0 oT ‘at sugh things are not possible, = =f, JU tae , ments and Executive Orders will », sFuin’s : Sions of thé news, in . ‘showing up for five minutes : of their betrayal-of their *\ nist infiltration of American , ‘, mot drop the subject? We have heard enough about.it, . Let us turn to something else.” . because of the great damage '.” ‘They are not only possible but they hare happene and Burgess and Maclean, like a vaudeville tea popped up for five minutes just to show to the wor! that the Russians have spies in high places and no tw could have been’ higher-than Burgess and Maclea . except Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White, who, fo all we know, may hare been part of the same cell. +’ ° The British have always been propaé of their Cirt 1. Service and of their Intelligence Ser zes. They used t boast that their Intelligence was“the best in the world. It certainly was good, During World War 1, they fell down. Dr. Klaus Fuchs, Dr. Allan Nunn May; the Canadian Spy Ring, the Australian Spy Ring and Burgess and Maclean are examples—and examples’ only—of defective Intelligence. The British will now take this situation in hand, too late, but with singular efficiency and they will clean it up. They will discover. exactly what happened, There will be no cry of Mc- Carthyism because they will do it quietly and when it "is all over, a White Paper will be issued to Parllament which will have to be truthful because the opposition , Patty will accept nothing jess, *-*: Mas gl lo . : vette he Psy vy ka \. -. Meanwhile, our own Eastland Committee will get ~ onto the job or trying to discover who in the State De- 17 "partment was the partner of Burgess and Mag’*an. It : _ Will be very unwise for the State Departmpcft¢ in an : - election year, to try to cover up. The arguments be- © ' tween the Department and the Comfuttee over docus do the Republicans no good politically, The people will wonder why anybody should want to protect a partner of Burgess and Mac- : lean no matter who jt might be. And there is always ae ee eee oe le . the danger that what they are trying to hide in this. country will come out in some other country. ee rr... __ sts. =m: roweriul Light - : . That ts the essengial weakness in all the suppres- the hiding of facts, in the Slanting ‘of history that goes on these days, What is suppressed in one country, comes out in another. Slanted history does not stand up against exposed facts. Milons of Wollars can be spent to confuse the peoples” aninds, “but a little event occurs, like Burgess and Maclean in a dramatic presentation country and ours and all the propagandistic Nes of several years fade before the . powerful light of truth... co. 7 ee So It will be with this entire question of v. * a Commu- life. Many say, “Why ah LD But the subject persists that hes been done.’ ‘Ag it is disclosed, it becomes necessary to Know how these people managed ¢ damage. How did men like | \ Burgess and Maclean, Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White get into positions where they could do so much harm to two such powerful nations? It is this search that does not stop because it is impossible for it to cease. of 2 - ed Si ee a