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. cited by the Press Council : vital interests of | . *. Y nation. of the -_Temptation “yo i When the two men fled : Bxpress was bitterly attacked ‘ ‘PSE Aight pening the of pt is ied from publ for curtosity. . rent th mine th Bits ; there lies {question of alleged intrusion, in cases where complaints are most vociferous.” - When ‘two Foreign Office offi cials disappeared in 1952 it was suggested that the inevitable Press inquiries were an in! into privacy and distress to relatives. “But the disappearance of these two men. presumably, to flee behind the Iron Curtain, was not a cause for family anxiety alone. It ralsed a iife and-death question, a question of the safety of the Realm. “Some critics urged begs _ making of inquiries been left to the Forelga a onnes and the 2 police. trusian ‘Express Staff Reporter” Iron Curtain of the Foreign Office diplomats Burgess and Maclean is today as a case in which the freedom of the Press helped to safeguard the “Tt was retorted ‘that State departments are under strong tion to hush up events « secretly in 1952 the Daily in some quarters for inter- viewin, Font he men's relatives and friends and relentlessly Paar its * aa Es atlond. ie ne police, ce faithful ‘as they are. : to thelr duty, may act more ge cisively after being spyrred'on by the Press. ie tne tna Was & case. x3 point ‘that, to See all citizens Piben a ine uit! ‘ relatives may . endanger pauon" “ question. ohne has of People—the Press Counc ‘| faithless to” his grave danger to his er if he” vel Helene orate ‘formation oaeaars kindness] emis means that sometimes questions must be put to pomons” suflering from shock ‘of bereave- ent, This should be, usually is, done in the kindest possible way. -Few le, even in distress, resent courteous na Unnlderate efforts to get “accurate report. Vel eeonen there Is no question of trying to extract the truth from unwilling sources. “ ‘The repo reporter sod the news er he resen' are rarel Fedarded as x Pntraders when they. are inquiring about an ‘exclting plece of nev 4, “To many. y quarters and on ;* many social levels they are part life of the community ‘The council says Nat ‘the pumas | of intrusion complaints, ith the number of 1s sm Andrews. chalr. he Press Council, compal Journalists, Bir Linton man of the L, has for the past five years sided over complaints Sealust the newspapers, sums up his experience in these words !—~ “™: view, after much experience, is that mal ny of of the would-be reformers 0 Press are in need ot curbs they prop pose fol . they _themselve the offences th exaggeration, — distortion : the ith, and the unprove assumption that they ‘sptak aoe are in, guestion x off questions "DAILY EXPRESS" LONDON, ENGLAND 12/2/58 Re: GUY_ FRANC. “ESPI FRANCIS pe. Hox Bufile 100-374183 pe for the nation. Even oe they, accusatic er! any cagery Journalists, at on assuming that it must be be Se known. BURGESS, ; ET AL at Ay onc ae ey ECLAND. _ LONDON, joer ‘ f 4 Ade L796 GS-7 ' emer ne, NOT RECORDED 145 DEC 15 1958