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the activities of Burgess ‘and Maclean yesterday. And at long last the Foreign Office are to issue a White Paper making a full statement about this shocking affair. : Nobody cares much what Burgess and Maclean are doing new. Nobody cares, in fact, whether they are alive, dead, hagoy r miserable. They can rot inthe country which thelr treachery took ther. But there are questions lefe in their wake af ome here which demand pnmeédiate answers: } What is going on in our Foreign Office? What has been going on for years that could become a secure hide-eut tor traitors? 3 Who are the guilty men who have been lying Mieie heads off in attempts te retect, mot Burgess and Maclean, but ysterious Somebody Else? How are we to gef answers to > these quite: tions? This newspaper befieves that fhe only way is. for the Government to set up a Royal Commission into the workings of the Foreign Office. That impartial examination would produce the truth, however unpalatable if might be. it would also unmask the men who ars guilty in this aftair—men who ought to be sacked and barred from any further service under the Crown, We believe we are expressing the demand of the public generally in calling for this investigation, For there ave harsh facts to be faced. YEAR AFTER YEAR The Foreign Office employed and promated Burgess and Maciean, hwo men who, if row furns auf, were spies for a hostile power almost as soen ag they were out af short trousers, : They had the free run of confidential focw ments. “They. “took, K those documents fa Continued on Paye 2 we ae een isiahaea A eae SAS Ob aa na ena ST ¢ rt