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, COULD IT HAPPEN AGAIN? d where do we go from here? Y's certain fhat igment will return from holiday to a firsi#lass erisis# The public will want io know, through heir elected representat whether they have heard all that can be told—real security, of gourse, permitting --and whether the same sort of thing could happen to-morrow, Many Members will doubtless claim they h been misled by Parliamentary replies over the i vending years and all will want to knew more about _ the arching inquiries” now made into the “ ante festerds and associates of all those geeupymy or apply- ing for positions in the Foreign Office invelving highly ‘seeret information.” Remember, the total number of Foreign and 2 Imperial Service personnel is well over 8,000, No one would tolerate MeCerihyism here. But ithe Burgess and Macloan affair gave ihe American Senator Jots of ammunition when he was conducting his witch-hunt over there, And when the Americans i read our White Paper, there'll be more than a few of them who'll say “I told you se. Joe MeCarthy was right.” To return to our own theme at the head of fhis (column -- Scotland Yard woidd eateh sdout fe eriminal in a hundred if they adopted these goytle- mdaoly kid-glove methods of Geiting Their Man.