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a ANB) QUEEN'S BENCH DIVISION thar it WAS d grave libel, te plaintiff, born | PLAINTIFE'S DENIAL OF HELPING an Austrian in Praguc in (Qt, became a MISSING DIPLOMATS Czechoslovakian by the treaty after ihe First SIRAUSS ¥, ASSOCIATED NEWS World War He had heen interested in ALSO Vv. ASSC 2 Be politics on behalf ef the German Peasants PAPERS LTD. in his couniry. After the jast war broke Before Ma. Justice Oni rap and @ jury ; oat he worked in Londan for Mr. Benes. ! fis Corpsman began the hearing of this! the Czechoslovakian leader. as a personal i action in which My. Karl Strauss, of Ru- assistant from 7941 until Mr. Benet re- ‘dolph Avenue, W.9. chimed damages for racd 1a Crechoslovakia. 1a 1948 Crecha- p whet against the Associated Newspapers slovakia Sc under Cammunist dominaling,., , Ltd. in respect of the prncipal item upen the The plain, Never having heen a Co ie i front page of the Daily Mail for Jume tia west. remained in Londen, tn ost ey 1954 sds refined a reaewal of his Cacchaslaca pay Ms<porl and in odo he recemved Bri av ngtionality and a Berinish Passport, i] ast ( | Le SEARCH ROgsps i The headlines sere: @ Paris hatds ¢ 7 Strauss “and “ Third man inked with mite: i! 1 ine diplomais.” Phe articie stated: Frevipti! : police have detaince Carl “Strauss, o | The detention af MraAtss, 79 * uals! Briton. has been kept sceret Tor over a cel 0) | When E asked about him at tht French Stireté ( was told: Strauss has beep: deiaincd by the Police and has probably Heut expected from France hy now.” Befar (Eatgised the question of the missing Britith? déiplomas——Mr., Guy Burgess and Mer j;Datald Mactean—the oficial addcd: ‘ Hid detenion had no connexion whatever witht. thethont for the Englishmen.’ Mespite ont, denial af the Sarcte, wa factors give fhe!) pa aFiest special significance: 1. The case "fk? being dealt with bs the branch of fhe Saree Pruary. J950, ihe patice went to his ad, ha warrant under the Official Scereis tre nd seatched him and his faz, looking tyr Hilary stores and dynamiic. ‘no douh: oh Mormation received fram a Political enemy... tex found nething thar was inimical “ter, IY or this country, In 1981 a public, | aquiry was held into statements which thé, Thina? had made in his application H Ruralization, i being said that he had ‘Hed old of his work far the Crechaslova Kyl uthorilies in relation ta Crechastovakians m this country, After that, in April, 1991, i British passport’ and wuhoat indrance from ihe authorities, re went {9 | ADs to pel work hecsuce, as a resula at Known as 'Defenss de ta Securiie du he inquiry, he had jest his job, While -an.r VVarviteire “the French special sccusity ris he was imecviewed by journalists ierulal police. ata} English papers. He was Suspected by, thet: “OA outing case af an undesirable atien’| {| Pench police and alier they had interwtcw ad {hear expelled sould be the concern of ate. jOOrmal security service known as! RenscigheéT meats Generaux,” ori al 2. The wausval reluctance of the authen - : [Fite to discuss the case. Normally no pate fad published the wards complained Cha. Htirular secret is made of the expulsion of an Mie NAS AO suggestion that the plunti€l Jalen, hut to-night the Sareré refused eved: | Ad ceer spicd in any sense ether than That iamier pressure te geve any detail about the | % had made reparis on hctime wna i im on May 26 he was ordered to kaveate I OunlEY, : Belore that order was made Burgess. ya {felcan disanpeared. On June (3 she ph if [Strauss affair, Asked whe Strauss had poeta: ¢ fyiieres in this country at the time whemite arrested and over which frontier hie had beén | 86a Czechoslovakian national. expelled the only answer was: ¢ Put vawn i Itai SOCSi1ONs IA Writing anc if it is desirable wel Will-answer them to-morrow," To-nighser S . NF pakee Snir reperts that a foreigner wham. he Crechaslovakian aaihorincs | Was jfBurgess is alleged in have contacted ltr ginly concerning the activities af Crecho. "tAcithin * appearcd before a British Court ape: ey eres | Wha were disalte teu March !4 in conncrion with a naturalisaticn:) | fOMards Ue then feime tn Czechoslovakia, , lf [toed 27 @ ALLEGED COMMUNIST PLOY iMhdt was on March t4 that Strauss heabdi: here was no warrant in any af the Sin cHartey Shaweross, then Atiorneye’ : : eneral. make the allegations against hibn mauirics made hy the defendants’ fenoricr Of any inference thar ihe Plamvfl had any Which caused him te leave for France... . wy th : - OW Paris as asking: Could Strauss have hexion with the disappearance of Burgess Macican. but, Notwithstanding “the en coniacted hy Burgess and Maclean after nd , wh vw : Sir Hartley Shawecrass had hady nig yn at the nubivc inquiry was that the WOE Awbich ti Placa had heen enpaped far their arrival i F enials ta his inquiries, he alowed himself, Rennes tn Man Fas, oa the train from mothe sircneth of an articic in the France . gir, to impute that the Plainifl was ep- fed ia a Communist plot in Paris to ashy fase two Englishmen away, “ays « "They. the dary, must think oT he eprionness Of @ stalement af that eharaclgr,’ euch a time about a man who wits da A, and the Only Mei? were Boing to put hin, mM. The was an alien in this couniry, Irving gre by the good will of the ame ONlice, BU had ao aationality thay he knew of for his nttialization ceriificate had been, withdeawn. “ *y The piainat had dane whor he could ; he had heen betd up io haired, ridicule andy , #RUINS! The strength of the Dailey Mail: in | comempt and had suifered damages. gy fp fue. COST he had issued the veris, The libel, The dcfendants denied that the worda: |}? spite of official Saletments made in the ‘complained of hore the meaning alleged «tt. louse of Commons lime after time, bad any meaning defamatory of the paiatit ys ater heen withdrawn, ‘Fhere had beeryners j aepenivels they alleged that the words. ienare ae enytdrawal, and, worse wr i i i di : ; : i, fhe de ants were theie io say rot natural and cntaary meaning werb; he. words were truc, and that the Dia t oa dink with the Missing diplongls. 4 ‘employed as a spy in some way piv sqsianee fo those men wha were esc: ron their ceuntry and were voncerned with eming behind the iron curtain, The Home, ghpetaty had said. when announcing. hib- ea@lswng fo withdraw the plaintif's certificate (Aaturaticavion, thai. if he had been tx! ‘of-any crime, apPoprate achon woukd>-he: tukea. No ae! Qo had Peon awhen.and me platjanit had heen TR eer Aan are He foapnse asked fe awdbeancal yee gO ee The Mainufl alleeed that in addition ta the rdinary and natural micaning., which was {- defamatory. the wards meant that he had MpToaperly acsisted Burgess and Maclead, Mihoh were at the time ef publication of the words widel suppased to have fled (ssinis {his couniry wo Furssia or to seme olen! country under the iaducnee af Russia for r the purpose af acting in a manner prejudicial | ia the interests ef ins Majesty and of theip | fellow subjects. in such 4 Manner as to lead j to fs artest and capulsion by the French, | police, and that ty reasen al tie publicatran!, teuc in substance and in fact: and they | allewed that the words were fair camment) pMmade beva fate and wihour matice upoo,,, amatier of public interests. any At Richard O'Sullivan, O.C.. and Mid \ 4 TAMA APpcaTed Lor the Piaimifily , tite ‘se tm fr CBN Mr. sdtgloass, f ma. f. feedanik bij... arnoy uted Fatt a et Nem aleg gate aera Ob ities j ‘pia inttinh dae: aa gad ob Bivgit oD 44. gL AD -RY Ew a ase ATS rey: DENG Br the! plain, ehing: ‘evidenue ih SUppeFt of los case, said that he had been a mappa, of the Crechoaslavukias Agranan— Caan: valive—Party. He wits never a_Caninoustst He had worked for Mr. Bene’ in [ngdae ' . feom 1942 ta 19492 he had then met PArAN &tcok at the Embassy and he asked lhl ssork for bina Ue made reports Trom dime, {fo time dealing mainly with potdieal ques- tions; nceasionaliy. put very seldom, he reporied about Crechoastovakian fonjergs gia this country. We werked for a hrm! of: exporters, receiving about £30 a month! was pant for the reports io the Creel « ‘slovakian authorities, but not a fised spit Afier Mr. Kreck had left in 1945 ¥¢ eo wiiness met a Mr. Zeman and ade renpet to him, Mr. Zeman became a Conmiyalgt ; and he, the witness, Begame anvious abaui i his posiion and apptied for Butesh narion- Paka. Fle admitted taar in bis applivanion “he had not said anything about the reposts he made fer ihe Crechoslovakian Pimbisss | he thought that i he dich he weuld be fess bkely to get) British Haonality Ve dna never identificd himself with the Communisiay capone 4g gen: Th ict br Ha ay [panes actalearse tee igardngy A catching’ das Pies BPR AE? aC Rated hwo | 4he § : Poked TA ane trom And Pah snc ae eas ae Tementber seeing Mr. Gardon Veung the Daily Afail reperter). die had had acthing to da with Burgess aad Maclean and. tad never secn then. j WAR OF NERVES Cross-cxamined py Mfr, Salmon, the witness agreed ahet when the C4aguhe-) slovakian Government went hack 1a Creg 12 Slovahia in 1945 the Communist inffues | there was very strong, and that Per cen Ta and 4948 dhe Conservative and Libehab farties in Crechosiovakia were being, hal? j dared. During the whole Period thers.yyas a darge Cacchostovakiaa ecions in Lqugay, ‘and dhe witness said thar it mipat Be thee the = Crechostosakian Government, Kas, [anak a war of rerres agaims! inc colqay! and that, if a man said ar did something iat London no approved af, pressure Way PUN on him througi fies retatives in Caachi, { owak. He agreed that any Crsctan Sevakian living in London who Was Ander. Communist was naturally rather shy of dis cussing what he was deing wih the members: ; Of the Embassy staff. aa But he could talk frecly to vou ?- Wes; The witness further agreed that he wan well Known among the communiiy in London and that he was anti-Communis:, inflexjbly opposed io the Pracue Gesernment. Tiere | Was a good deal of iadergraund aciily TH! London against Prague and he was enge a iT . : vt Boring the whole time were .0U wept paid as a seeree agent of The Pe pes Counsel repented thet Government ?—No. jhe" question. and ihe witness agswered:4 aie somelimes received payment fram thy Pra ic Govecament. but | could net he called a secret agent,” eed), Did vou receive thase payments for heftat3 ing secrets af the Czechastosakian cointy if London 2—Not fer betraying the secrete at the Crechosfovakicn colony in London, The witness cenicd having a cede in his dressing-pown packet when the police called at his flat, and denicd that thes found notes of instructinas an a microfitm hidden in a picture frame. ; ; Dil you meet a man in Burtington Gardens who handed you hook matches comlaitineg some small pieces of microfilm with the ores upetiqgs, from fracug, 23), <p... a tained ot ‘den "Br ue, st oEed eateacs gts Boch pect SN clea, 0! 22H re Sen peeing Nn mh A en agg na oO