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4 bea & se: Days The Truth Must Qut___~ IT IS startling, at this date, Secretary of War actually believed that a - they would. not tell Vice President Harry Tru g man about -it, After Truman ped his first “ Cabinet meet- * . Sng-as “Presi. . Sokolsky Ment, Stimson stayed behind to <, tell him what was going on. ~ Truman says in his memoirs: -. “. .« Stimson told me that +-he wanted me to-know about an immense project that was under way—a project looking to the development of a new explosive of almost unbeliev- able destructive power. That was all he felt free to say at the ‘time, and his statement Jeft me puzzled. It was the first information that had come to me about the atomic bomh, but he gave me no details , 3.” #f this business was really so’ secret, why did not the * Pentagon set up an adequate security system? The FBI was kept out of it but not Dr. Klaus Fuchs who, although. a known. », | Communist, was permitted to + enter this country and to work at the Manhattan Project. But not only was the Vice President kept in ignorance but the, Congress. Harry Tru- man recounts that when he was chairman of a Senate’ committee investigating - the national defense, Stimson came to him. This is the way Truman recounts it: “ ‘SENATOR,’ the Secretary (Stimson) told me as he sat beside my desk, ‘I can’t tell | you what it is, but it is the greatest project in the history of the world. It is most top * secret. Many of the people who are actually engaged in the work have no idea what ‘itis, and we who do would Nagas your not going ose plants.".”” . : . Berhaps thad |“ Hatrpwru- - between the American and vealed in Washington or in 7 British governments, they London, because men’s his- ad. i™ wi? wow CCG vo ‘ ~~ Me. Tolson ; "George Sokolsky Me, Boardman : : : 7 Mc. Nichols he ‘would have Jearned-that “HeTbe?t Morrison jn the. ~ Me Mohr the secret was already out, British Parliament has been Ms, Parsons that the Russiahs-had already pressing Sir Anthony Eden to: Me. Rosen stolen it, that the United -tell the whole truth about Me. Tame States was living in # fool's these scoundrels. We do not Me, Siz paradise. know how much Eden knows, + Siz00 The day may come when but the explanations: given Mr. Winverrowd —__ thé British government will thus far are not plausible, Tele. Room pluck up the courage to tell From the American Mr. Hollomaa ‘arliament what they know. int, it would be sufficient about: the crimes of Burgess Miss Gedy ———- and MacLean. When we were told that the dis they ~ cussion about the Manchurian were in this country as Brit- sanctuary did pass over the ish officials, they were Rus- Burgess and MacLean desks, sian agents. Whatever passed . but the truth must be re: : toric reputations are at stake, Gen. Douglas MacArthur and just as Harry Trurfan has testified that his battle wrote his memoirs, so orders were pasted on to the these other men. enem: e Korean war. °° (copyright. 1955, King He investigated . thoroughly. Features Syndicate, Inc.) The leak must have been in» ~~ ——--———-———-~ ro hed 9 \ Washington . THERE HAS BEEN some (a . speculation that the leak was — in the State Department. : 4 aoe dito Suppose the American Gov- ernment engaged upon dis- cussions with the British government concerning this: decision and the documents, back and forth, passed over the desks of Burgess and Mac- Lean, And suppose they made copies and passed them on to their Russian masters. Knowl- edge of the truth, if i¥ did. nothing else, would clqanse the reputations of auspqcted: Americans, “e a Puhr ess ¢ a boar, rn rae DELLE COPY stat @.R Mac Npralol Wash. Post and Times Herald BY LIVER uuq ve qy76 Wash, News PER FOIA AcQbood, Wash. Star 63: N. Y. Herald Tribune . . N. Y. Mirror A eater ek, LM et Ait Ee ae ee SS ws “iates eB = |