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HESE DAYS: — Burgess Vaudeville Act By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY7):°°5 300 U/ CHEV has a typical Russian sense of humor, : (Ane vaste of which is always raw impudence. : chibited Burgess and Maclean for five minutes jus! ; say, “Nu! What the hell” ys tat Te y ’ they Obviously they were not free men or ive stayed 10 minutes or half an hour. Their schedule as five af and that is all they had, ‘That they . a Miaclear e treate slaves—intellectual slaves—is apparent om the pfture of their interview. © 07 )¢7#15>4: ~ For several years now, I have been writing al ese fellows and Ihave been seeking out thelr relation~" ° ips in our State Department. The Cor line universal and a member is under Party ed thin his own cell. While they were in the U: ates, Burgess. and Maclean were undoubtedly in | -2- ngton which reported to ® com: nr Bo enived. direct orders from Moscow Tone om & Moscow courier. Sooner or later, 50! iy been. | pe py comm tp more yf acel Senbsean member, * vestigation, are of cell and we shal] have the pi 4 } plonage system involving our State Department ane, e British Foreign Office. When that c a ‘ | will startle many complacent Americal t ‘at such Shings are not possible, - arn hoe 2 2 s | Popped up for five minutes just to show to the worl L that the Russians have spies in high places and no twi y that does not stop because it is impossible for it fa » of their betrayal-of their R : powerful light of tru \ nist infiltration of American life. Many say, . not drop the sudj spree in High Places “* epee “They are not only possible but they have happenel and Burgess and Maclean, ike # vaudeville tea: could have been ‘higher than Burgess and Maclea: except Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White, who, fo: all we know, may have been Part of the same cell. - ‘The British have always been prop of their Civt Service and of their Intelligence Serv} boast that their Intelligence was*the best in th world. It certainly was good. Durin the Canadian Spy Ring, Burgess and Maclean only—of defective Intelligence. efficiency and they will clean it which will have to be truthful Meanwhile, our own Eastland Committee ‘will ig World War t,t they fell down. Dr. Klaus Fuchs, Dr. Allan Nugn May, the Australian Spy Ring and are examples—and examples’ The British will now take this situation in hand, too Tate, but with singular up, They will discover. exactly what happened. There will be no cry of Mc- Carthyism because they will do it quletly and when it “4s all over, a White Paper will be issued to Parliament because the opposition ,; Party will accept nothing less." °°-*:: : a onto the job or trying to discover who in the State De- 4 "partment was the partner of Burgess and Ma will be very unwise for the State Depart, an. It ty in an election year, to try. to cover up, The arguments be " tween the Department and the Comfalttee over docu« , Ments and Executive Orders good politically, should want to will do the Republicans no The people will wonder why anybody 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. .£ountry will come out in some other country. ” " : Truth’s Powerful Light ‘That ts the esse! sions of the news, in of history that goes on these days, What is suppressed in one country, comes out in another. Slanted history does not stand up against exposed facts, Millions of Uollars can be spent to confuse the peoples’ aninds, “but a ttle event occurs, lke Burgess an@ Maclean “showing up for five minutes in a dramatic presentation country and ours and all ‘the propagandisttc Hes of Several years fade before the aa et “ So it will be with this entire question of Commiu= “Why ect? 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 At ts disclosed, it becomes necessary to know how these people managed’ he damage. How did men like Burgess and Maclean, Alger Hiss and Dexter White get into positions where they could do so much to two such powerful nations? It is this search to cease. ve ¢ Commu, 2908, King Postares @razicata tne” ial weakness in all th suppres- hiding of facts, in the Slanting | [ ot a eataameiiaamenl