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._Meamwhile, our own Fastland Committee_will get onto the job or irying to discover wh: the State De- partment was the partner of Burgess and Maclean. It will be very unwise for the State Department, in an election year, to try to cover up. The arguments be- tween the Department and the Committee over docu- ments and Executive Orders will do the Republicans no good politically. The people will wonder why anybody should want to protect a partner of Burgess and Mac- Jean no matter who it might be. And there is always the danger that what they are trying to hide in this country will come out in some other country. Trath’s Powerful Light That is the esseritial weakness in all the! suppres~ sions of the news, in the hiding of facts, in the slanting of history that goes on these days. What is suppressed in one country, comes out in another. Sianted history does not stand up against exposed facts, Millions of dollars can be spent to confuse the peoples’ minds, but little event occurs, like Burgess and Maclean showing up for five minutes in a dramatic presentation af their betrayal of their country and ours and all the propagandistic Nes of several years fade before the powerful light of truth. So it will be with this entire question of Commu- nist infiltration of American life. Many say, “Why not drop the subject? We have heard enough about it. Let us turn to something else.” But the subject persists because of the great damage that has been done. As it is disclosed, it hecomes necessary to know how these peaple managed to do the damage. How did men like Burgess and Maclean, Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White get into positions where they could do so mich hhafm to two such powerful nations? It is this search uhgt does not stop because it is impossible for it to cease. Copyright, 1956, King Features Szaditate, ine.