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+ So it Js interesting to read the British newspapers now. Like Senator Joe McCarthy they ane castigating @ government for refusing to disclose the full facts. ike McCarthy who called the Tydings report on Com- munist Infiltration a “whitewash,” the Daily Telegraph cries out, “The White Paper is wholly unconvincing, even as a whitewash.” “It is time,” says the Telegraph, “for a commission to examine our security system and its responsibility to the public.” *. The normally cautious Manchester Guardian says “The impression most people will form is that the se- - curity authorities did not take a very serious view of Burgess and Maclean.” That sounds like Attorney Gen- eral Brownell’s charge against Truman’s casual pro- motion of the Communist stooge Harry Dexter White, . which was denounced as “McCarthyism.” The Sunday tom Sane Times makes a sudden discovery, “We have all been — . reminded that communism is not merely a theory, but an international conspiracy, and we relax our vigil toward it at our peril.” Senator Jenner's committee re- » port on subversion In the government might have used the same words, The most interesting comment on the British Com- Munist spy case was recorded in News of the World; “The Burgess and Maclean affair gave Senator Mc- ~ Carthy lots of ammunition when he was conducting * his witch hunt, and when Americans read our White Leameinatied Paper, more than a few will say: 1. told you so: Me- Carthy was right.” The belated discovery {n Britain that cammunism is more’ than just a political theory was a long time in the making. It took the enterprise of an American newsmagazine to expose the truth, nelther British press nor government were much interested. Well, it’s better Jate than never. We'll be cheering on the new “Mc+ ~ Carthyism” in Great Britain, however, Instead of tells “tag them, as they did us, to forget about the whole hing.