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Why?

TOME important gaps in the and Maclean

Burgess

mystery were filled by the Foreign Office White Paper released on Saturday. Four and-a-half "yours" "hayo passed since the diplomats fled to Russia, and the public now knows the main outline of a 'flrat-clnas roul lifo spy thrillor. But the document also illustrates that the Bri- tish public up to now has been concerned far too much with the superficial human uspect of the case, and not enough with its deeper and infinitely more disturbing implications.

The immediate and alas, last-.|

Ing-impression gained from reading it is one of alarm. So many ends have been left untied; HO much is un- answered and unexplained. This is strikingly apparent in the cabled precis published in Saturday's China Mail. London news- paper commonta confirm this view. It is hard to believe the Foreign Office could pro. duce a document like it; if its amazingly ingenuous style and composition was deliberate, it is, as the Daily Express says, insulting. I not deliberate, then it has been thoughtlessly, hurried. ly, carelessly--and badly- prepared.

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MANY questions immediate.

ly, assert themselves. Why, for instance, did it take the security authorities as long as 27 months to track down a serious leakage in the Foreign Office to "two or three persons"? And why, when Maclean was regarded as the principal suspect a month later at the beginning Cut Miny. V did the then

Foreign Secretary Mr Morri son not authorise inter rogation until May 25, the day of his defection? What grounds for suspicion

did security have against

not

Maclean if· it was "legally admissible evidence"? Why was it that, once suspected, Maclean was nstrict not put under security watch for 24 hours Did someone tell a day? Maclean of the inquiries being made about him? If 80, is there a third man . involved?

These are only some of the many questions that must be asked and answered. One wonders whether the lack of

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Lennox-Boyd Slated For Peerage Cardiograms Reveal Burgess,

With

that will

Say London Reports

London, Sept. 25. Increasing conviction the British' · Cabinet bo reshuffled very soon, reporis continue to cireulate in London that Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd Will otase to be Secretary of State for the Colonier and be created a peer, Sonroes close to HMG do not discount this portbllity. But they my, "not just YOL"

But if and when Mr Lennox- Boyd does go to the House of Lords it will not be the usual case of being “kicked upstairs."

Rather, may the sources, he

will be the spearhead of the Tory drive ta strengthen their position about which they are portedly not too "happy in the Upper House,

The

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resignation from the Conservative Party chair- manship by Lord Woollon is being read as an in~ dication that he intends to by far less politically

active than previously. If so, then the Tortes would

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obviously need another good man to strengthen their side in the House of Lords.

ALL QUIET IN ARGENTINA

Lonardi's Promises To The CGT

25

Buenos Aires Sept. 25.

President of the provisional Government of the Argentine, General Eduardo Lonardi, has made promises on four important points, Hugo De Pietro, Secretary-General of the CGT (Argen- tinian Workers Organisation) said today.

De Pietro said Lonardi had promised:

3. That all workers' rights would be maintained.

of

the

might lear

-But, say; informed, sources, Mr Lennox-Boyd, though appreciation the need for kia pervlses in the Lord, wonta not be entirely happy about moving in the meantime. For it is widely

that when .Ro became Colonial

known

Secretary he achieved, a cherished personal umbi- tion. Even after he left the Colonial Often to be- cone Transport and Aylas tion Minister in 1952 his heart was still very much with the colonies.

But no one in a position to do so in London is attempt- ing to discount reports in political circles that Mr Lennox-Boyd will be elevated in the not too distant future. And stol is being made of the fact ""that" be is in the uncom- fortable position of being. Cabinet minister holding a miséginal stat majority at Mid-Bedford- shire In the laas election was 2,964. Marginal seals are those with majorities below 5,000.

Abolish

Gov-Gen Office Proposal

Strength, Stability Maclean

MUST

Scandal

TAKE THINGS EASY" PUBLIC INQUIRY

FOR INDEFINITE PERIOD

Denver, Sept. 25.

President Eisenhower lay in an oxygen tent today, breath- ing measuredly and resting well as he tried to throw off the damage of a heart attack which will force him to take things easy" indefinitely.

White House press secretary James Hagerty disclosed at a press conference that three electric cardiograph examinations have shown that there are no complications. The cardiograph measures the operations of the heart and of the circulatory system:

DEMANDED

London, Sept. 25, AConservative Member of Parliament today. de- manded a "full-scale, public Inquiry into the scandalous case of Burgess and Mac lean, and charged that both

men were known as drunks and sex perverts for years." sald, "It is not as

Captain Henry Kerby, MP

If their horkosexual activities

were known only to a handful of people."

office was deliberately covering Ho claimed that t the Foreign up sordid details of the private lives of missing, diplomats Guy. Burgess and Donald Maclean who disappeared behind the fron four years ago,

According to Mr Hagerty: "The electro-cardiogram pattern has undergone the usual changes of a coronary, but there are no complications and (the examinations showed) the President's strength remains good" esked's question in and his condition has remained stable on all three cardiograms.”-

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Parlis- ment, directed to the Minister of State, Mr Anthony Nutting, whether these men were homo- sexuais," Capt. Kerby sald." "I received no reply!" "Mich

Maclean and Burgess were known as drunks and sex YET- verts for years. I intend to Parliament when the into the

press

Mr Elsenhower' had been That bulletin, issued during rushed to his side. She ith given the three electric cardio- the early morning hours by Mi modiately summoned Dr Snyder. graph examinations up to noon Hagerty, was prepared by Dr Today--one at the home of Mrs | Snyder and Col George

Early Saturday afternoon, Dr John S. Doud, his mother-in-Powell, chief of the medical Snyder book the President to law, where ho

stricken department at Fitzsimons.

the hospital. He already had had early on Saturday, and two at COL Thomas M. Mattingly, one electro-cardiograph and was Filzsimons

carried from the second floor of Army Hospital Army Medical Corps heart ex- where he is resting now in a pert who flew to Denver from his mother-in-law's home and Axt session starts for a full-

down

steep concrete room with cream-coloured walls, Washington during the night,

scandalous case, He cor, Hagerty Wus

Mr. Hagerty disclosed, today whether the medical

record of is doing as well as can be ex that the President was carried the Elsenhower case would lead | ́pected, to expectation

askod- saw, the President and said he waiting White H pepe to scale. public-Inquiry Cont

President

Capt Kerby indicated

ho

and did not walk, as was, pre- thought it was possible that When the future

was viously reported. As soon as he the third man, mentioned in coronary-attacks. The President stricken, Mrs Elsenhower was was on his way the White the White

phic Pain or thời là suffered a coronary thromboɑls, i asleep in an adjoining room Home » disclosed: officially, that, format whoi

which mens clot in & blood She heard him complain that he had weed automated for red of mus Forswerdthat supailee Lhe muscles be war feeling" unwell

of the beart thella

He said: "The doctors tell me that it is not normal to ex- Algiers, Sept. 25. pect additional attacks, but they President of the Algerian could extend over a larger area quality that by saying an attack' Assembly, M. Raymond than it is at the present

Line Laquiere, tonight submitted

The

Chief Executive lay

pos remarcat tent which pulsed

Use

Visitors Barred

Narrow Escape For Heart Specialist

Denver, Bept. 25.

Dr Paul Dudley White, 69, perhaps the leading heart specialist in the US, arrived today to help treat President Eisenhower and narrowly escaped injury. In a plane mishap. The nowe wheel of the plane that flew De White here "blew out as it landed at Lowry Air Force base here.

The tyre exploded just as the four-engised C-118, belong- ing to the Military Air Transport Service, touched the runway at Lowry. A crash truck roared out to the plane but there was no fire and no one was hurk

The White House Press Secretary, James Hagerty, met Dr.Whlis and took him to the hospital at 2.03 pan where, a consultation on the President's ailment started immediately

This May Mean No Second Term As President

a resolution calling for the within the glassine folds. of a I. The provisional governe, on General Lonardi's word and elimination

of the ment would guarantee

to the must continue to maintain proof Governor General, the make him feel more

bursts of oxygen

comfort- safety of ex-President Juan duction levels. Unions should

continue to obey CGT orders French Government's chief able. The

of oxygen

in Peron.

coronary thrombosis the That

cases is CGT labour without lending themselves

to representative in Algeria. unions would not be control- manoeuvres, which

now regarded by physicians as to rioting. led by the government,

Laquiere asked urgent con-routine and not indicative of the sideration for the measure, severity of an attack. LA PRENSA With regard to the newspaper which is expected to be. dio

the during

spocial La Prensa, General Lonardi as cussed 4. The situation important

Assembly session La quoted by Pietro, said that the Algerian newspaper

Most of the time, according to Frenso now controlled by Government did not intend to which starts next Tuesday,

return the paper to its formŁAN"

the White House staff, the. Pre- the CGT, would пов

-United Press. The resolution provides that sident dozes, waking to talk to altered.

owners, expropriated in 1951,

His room ..on the De Pietro called on workers by the Peron Government. No the Governor-General bere doctors

Minister for eighth floor of Fitzsimons Hos- alteration in the status of the placed by a prima facie case really did to keep calm and not to join prevent Maclean's early in activity which might upset paper, now owned by the CGT, Algeria," who would sit in the pital is barred to visitors, ex-

was envisaged, Pletro said.

French Cabinet, on matters cept to Mrs Eisenhower, who apprehension. The White the country, in order to help

The Paraguayan gunboat on affecting Algeria. An eight has a room across the hall, Paper rather indicates that the government, which aimed which ex-President Juan Peron member council elected by the

Mr. Hagerty only looked into Foreign Oce security at restoring normal constitu- has been a virtual prisoner since Algerian Assembly would have the President's room when he

tional conditions.

his overthrow, sailed tonight to be consulted on implementa visited the hospital suite for an measures must bear a large

Hugo de Pletro, who was from its berth in Buenos Aires tion of Assembly decisions and hour today. Не Baw the share of the blame. It

making a radio broadcast, em- harbour.

the Minister would be required President

propped up alightly admits surprising careless-phasised that since the govern-

way

not known I Peron

to abide by the majority votes on a standard hospital bed, to ness and somo extraordinary ❘ment did not intend to control

travelling to exile in the

of the Council.

accommodate the oxygen fent. lapses.

the CGT, workers could rely gunboat or whether he would be

The

of the room are transferred to a sister ship also The resolution stated that cream coloured; there is light lying in the River Plate Algeria was French territory, green

upholstery

on several France-Presse and Reuter,

that, its departments (adminis-chars

chairs. There are tight green Held Ex-Governor

trative arcas)

and only

drapes over the windows, Buenos Aires, Sept, 25. overseas departments but French $ small desk against Вы Cárlos' Aloe, the former departments and that its terri-with straight-backed chair Governor of Buenos Aires, has torial integrations with France

against the desk, and a dresser. been arrested while trying to was complete,

Dr Paul Dudley White of the Пес to

asked the French

Massachusetts General Hospital dollars in a suitcase.

to submit legis.

world's Boston, perhaps the at Revealing

the fation to satisfy the "reasonable

ending authority on heart ail- newspaper Clarin reported that pirations outlined, in the re-ments, came to Denver to help Aloe was arrested as he was solution.France-Presse.

treat the President on the driving with his brother to the

Invitation of Dr Murray, M. drontier. Both men were define

Snyder, White House physi- clan, m

And Major John Eisenhower, the President's only son, has come from Fort Belvoir today to see his father:

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Spinster Urges Polygamy

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He said he had information that there had been other cass of homosexuality in the Foreign

The

Sunday Pictorial devoted its entire front page to the Maclean-Burgers case and became the first, British, newisi. paper to make sweeping accuID= tions of homosexuality. In the Foreign Office."ANA

The Pictorial's heading sald: "The Squalid Truth Is Barb paragraph read, "The wretched, squalid truth about Burgess and Maclean is that they, ware sex perverta

en

PAPER'S CHARGE.

| It went on to charge that There has for years existect inside the Foreign Office service a chain or cliqua of perverted

men

Whatever the o current medical or social view,

low, the danger of

such men in publle service obvious, Homosexuals

is

are

known to be bad security flake. They are easily won over a traltors. Foreign" "agents" reek them out as spics,"

the

Pictorial

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Washington, Sept. 25. Republican political leaders, shaken by President ment in Washington purged line Eisenhower's sudden illness, faced the chilling fact today staff of bed security risk it that he probably would not lead them in the 1956 election continued, 1600 of those fired or

forend to campaign.

perverta" While the final word must come from the chief A Foreign Office pokesman, executive, Republican strategists conceded privately that acked about the charges of homosexuality, said: "We are the magic Eisenhower name was likely to be missing from not. In a position to answer the ballot în next year's all-important White House and questions on this case."--United Congressional races, de

One high. Republiest strate- ist, who declined to be quoted br name but who is highly re- garded within the Party, sald Hatly: "I thinic. Ike will decided himself out of the zuming" This mom has been regarded Eisenhower generally backer

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