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Cc If these men prove to be Soviet sympathizers, it would, I assume, be quite a serious matter in foreign relations, Secretary Acitzson: That is cor. rect.” Senator Brewsrer: And we did have the earliest case of Dr, Klaus Fuchs in the atomic-energy devel- opment, Secretary Acueson: right. Senator Brewster: As I under- stand you had inquired of the Brit- ish Embassy here but they had no further information about the mat- ter? Stcrerary Acneson: I had in- quiry made this morning and that was the answer I got. Seaton Baswsrer: I have here the latest, apparently, off the ticker, which says: “News of their disappearance caused a sensation in Paris dip- lomatic circles, One high western diplomat exclaimed ‘Oh, my ! There goes the tripartite files of the Big Four Deputies meeting.’” If this is true, would that be a matter within the purview of the head of the American desk, or the Far-Eastern desk? Secrerary Actreson: [ don't know how the British Foreign Of- fice operates, I imagine that if this man had jurisdiction over relations with the United States, he would have knowledge of what our discus- sions were in Paris, That is Scene Tue _Buacess-M ACLEAN Case By NCREDIBLE, but true, nobody ques- tioned this alleged failure of the British Government to notify the United States in the twelve-day in- terval—May 25 to June 7, 1951— that elapsed between flight and publication, nor did they question the reported ignorance of the Brit- ish Embassy in Washington where Burgess had been stationed as re. cently as April of that year. The statements, if true, were shocking, € were at war and England was our ally, but our Secretary of State heard it on the radio, We also, ac- cording to his Statement, had a etary of State who did not know the functions of the Ameri- can Department of the British For. eign Office! The Congressmen did not ask because they would not know until September, 1955, about the world-wide British security in- vestigation carried on throughout 1950 and 1951 because of a British finding in 1949 that secrets had been leaked for years. Did Mr, Acheson know or was this item— which might have alerted us—~ withheld by our ally? So much for Mr, Acheson—and the Joint Committee which did not €ven remind the Secretary that he himself had testified that checking on Allied reaction to “hot pursuit” had been limited to six nauons be- cause “this would be a military operation which you would not wish to inform the enemy about” and “it was Probably a view of not spreading the security too widely.” sa ee, Pia eet a