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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 now. Nobody cares, in fact, whether they are alive, dead, happy « miserable. They can rot in the country which their treachery took therm, But there are questions lefr in their wake at jome here which demand immediate answers: } What is going on in our Foreign Office? 2 What has been going on for years that it could become a secure hide-out for traitors? Who are the guilty men who have been lying tieic heads off in attempts to retect, not Burgess and Maclean, but . ysterious Somebody Else? How are we to get answers te these que: tions? This newspaper believes 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 it might be- it would also unmask the men who are guilty in this affair—men who ought to be sacked and barred from any further service under the Crown, We believe we are expressing the demaad of the public generally in calling for this investigation. For there are harsh facts to be faced. YEAR AFTER YEAR The Foreign Office employed and promoted Burgess and Maclean, two men who, it now furns out, were spies for a hostile power almost as soon as they were out of short trousers, They had the free run of confidential foc ~“ynants. Thay took those documents laway Continued oa Page 2