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NS, They continued their treacherous work year afier year, . . After they. disappeared the Foreign Otfice deliberately misled Ministers and deceived the public for four years.. The answers given in Parliament, the answers given to the Press are now exposed in aff their scandalous dishonesty, Three years ago, in Octaber, 7952, the Marquis "af Reading was Under - Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Answering a question in the Lords, he said that Maclean's Communist sympathies were not known when he disappeared, . That statement was a fie, Macfean had been undbr security surveillanke- Somebody fed a he to him, he fed fim with the fie? He must Re a pte eae ARERR ee EY what he honestly “helieved ta be ay known, Where is he_ now? Is he still in the Meee eet re anna a EES — oe service of the Crown? The liftle that we now Know about this “infamous affair has been gouged from the Foreign Office by the revelations af a Russian spy, Petrov, who turned Queen's Exidence. it was his evidence that sraoked out the. men who Rave hidden for four years behind 2 aswroke-screen. if it had nof been for the pure accident of Petrav's double-twist, we would be ted with variants af the same lies for the next four years and even for the next 40 years. WHITEWASH? The fast thing the Fareign Office will do is name the man, the Mr. X [or the men it there are more than one of them) who crn gbe convicted of deliberate deception ‘of Peaple, Press and Parliament, c have been promised a Foreign Offic White Paper within a few days, What wilt it be? A Whitewashing Paper? ft may amplify what we know already but it will ene ee a paler Some people in the They havea lot to explain, and they much prefer to do all their explaining in private. They have been. guilty at scandaious negligence, They may also have been guilty: of gross favouritism, Before the traitors’ departure, they protected the jobs of Burgess and Maclean. Why? by the American service Burgess would have been promptly sacked for no ether reason than his voluble drunkenness. START HUNT Call that ° witch-hanting ’ if you fike, There "are witches in the Foreign Office. LET'S HAVE A HUNT. Equally promptly the Americans would have urned Mactsan out of his job and turqed im aver to a psychiatrist. But our opr foreign Qifice kept themt in responsibta tmiployment, : a Ule