1955-12-31 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1955.

WHEN MEN IN HIGH PLACES

BLOCK THE TRUTH-

that in the

I

T

fact is a strange

crisis

tho

of

110-

produced by

disappearance

Burgess and Maclean

body behaved well excopt the Press. There are

cer-

tain households where this view 'would not be received sympathetically, but none the less it is a fact.

The rest of the parties involved were willing to tell any amount of lies, or

suppress

Beware!

by REBECCA WEST

THE

THE

to

GREAT

THE

GREAT

GREAT

SPV SCANDAL

SPY SCANDAL

THE GREAT SPY SCANDAL

THE GREAT

SPV SCUNDAL

the truth, or at

least to refuse to recognise

the truth, in order to avoid

admitting

and Maclean

that Burgess

were

reason

guilty,

that

for the same 60 years ago many French

people were willing to per- jure their souls in order to avoid admitting

Dreyfus was innocent.

to go

that

the Foreign

SPV SCANDAL

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EDITED BY JOHN S. MATHER, RESEARCH BY DONALD SEAMAN

WBS

d

the

on his own telling, had hot rubbed with Hitler.

ofcers who the security Erreened him found out that his Fascism

a protence, was only they must presumably have also found out that he was a Com- munist; and that should have sept him out too, for the Stalin Hitler Pact was still in force,

A squint

In each case a class decided

Up to the other day, in both that it wan so valuable as the

u

Coimenons and The Lords bulwark of the State that if the debates, a pretenco was kept up truth discredited I then the that there WAR

mysterious fruth had to

security reason which made the in France i was the army desire of the newspapers to which had to be protected at print the truth an imprudence. all mosul coste In Britain the mischief

Nor can reporters have liked jay in Office, and the large number of to be called liars on the basis of had with people, running

the interviews through

they had

who from and middle classes who Mrs Maclean, upper

by the fect themselves

recognised smehow allied Arst to the members of the Foreign shrewd as not likely to go down great as one of the Omes, who feel that if it goes to fame they go.

truth-tellers of history.

DUT what is alarming is that Yet some readers may have it years later someone was doubts when

they read "The still holding that umbrella up Groat Spy Scandal for it con-

In the intervening period he lains a great deal of hideous had twice been arrested for stuff, about people unworthy of being drunk in charge of a car. their femilica, of the institu-

He had been a plague to his QUT it is not the business of ions

that nourished them, VID -

neighbours as the tenant of a Fleet Street to have blood worthy of this country,

West End flat where he gave ve brothers. So the Preas wen!

For obvious

did not

riotous parties frequently end straight on and told the truth, attend the same famous school

of 11 ing fights, during one It did not do this out of con-

as Guy Burgess, but I musi con-

down which he was thrown scious virtue, because It had fus to feeling enraged by

the

stairs by another diplomat and waiting

which shows him, torne away en photograph

to hospital in an opportunity to save its soul and looking like a male impersonator, ambulance suffering from A acquire meril It WAS simply in its traditional uniform.

a broken jaw, fractured skull, and art injuries: and early in 1950 he was reported as having divulged official secrets.

Veen

Ingenuity

about

for

going about its age-old business of getting the news. But if that is done with the proper crafts- manship and zest, ita proc-

And

themselves CVETI

Litioner's

milled to virtue.

community must

LONG, បទ

must have

have WAS

fuel,

food and clothing. It needs news

reason

Squalor

JAS it really necessary, this

journey through squalor? Yes. There are three reasons for the same reason that a man why the newspapers should have noods eyes. It too has got to see made the community look hard

where it is going.

The Dolly Express has now

issuod

account an

of

the

at this ugliness.

lo

throw

at

But in August, 1950, he was appointed Second Secretary the Embassy in Washington,

All this is a state of affairs

the

Press had which

10 describe to the public, it meant that Great Britain was on the

way to being deprived of what has

I CAN

ASSURE

THIS

HOUSE etc.

exc

Cummings

In the English-speaking world suffer from □ curious people mental squint when they think of Communism,

They know, because they have read it in books and newspapers, that

Communist Party is an the

abandon that they association which requires of its

their loyalty to their own coun members

all instructiona and obey Try Issued

Soviet Union, by the when these instructions tell them to put the Soviet Union's interests before thoir own country'a,

I

traitors.

automatically creates

No banners

or

THEY also know that in every country there are a number of people who are attracted to Communism for one reason

because they another, perhaps

in

the

economic clubclieve

because theory of Capitalism, or they

want to belong to a secret society which will help them on to a good place in life, or be cause they are neurotics and want to destroy the world by revolution.

POLICY

IES

FACT

The Press was able to alert the public as it had never been alerted before by its work on the case of Burgess and Macitan, and shows why.

It was an achievement of the which was ob- working Prinding a political They know all this, but they viously not

looking for do not really believe it. If they axe, but simply

Nobody was Waving an news. a Communist conspiracy ideologien banner. There were

hear of it seems to them as unreal es

the latest Agatha Christie; and only a lot of reporters taking they cannot believe that any things down in shorthand.

real

human flesh-and-blood

of ita know, could possibly be a Com-

munist.

the aller natione As one

greatest assets: on efficient and loyal Civil Service,

told.

This little volume is a beauti-

of pure journalist, which never sets out to do more than bring

So the most important part back the story, but sometimes of contemporary history seems brings back a slory that civilisa- tion must hear it is not to a legend to them, and they are at the mercy of any Communist perish. who troubles to deceive them.

First, the Soviet Union Wus always been reckoned by being, particularly anybody they ful example of the usefulness certainly going Burgess and Maclean episode spotlight on the missing diplo- called "The Great Spy Scandal. mats in the long run. If it had which has a serious historieni wanted to cov

their There is yet a third reason value, because it records the de-

why the truth had to be treachery, 14 would have order- feat by the Press of an allempi ed them

from the Arst in

now the newspapera, resign to kill

blindfold the Foreign Office and retire quielly, in this book. news, to community.

On the contrary it withdrew The volume tells three stories, them from Britain in way First it tells the story of the certain to cause a scandal. missing diplomats. With great Then the Russians would most technical skill a team of Express probably have followed their writers has put together into a usual routine and presented coherent narrative the news these

two men 09 selfless items which appeared in the idealists who, in the course of

But there is also the story of how that story was uncovered, by what twists and turns of journalistic ingenuity.

of

AT

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THE

HOME IT WAS BEST-FED CHRISTMAS

By Vaughan Jones

columns of the Beaverbrook their work at the Foreign Press and other newspapers as Office, had become sickened by the mystery unfolded.

the warmongering polices Britain and her allies, and had therefore fed to

the peace- loving Soviet Union.

But even the Soviet Union could not carry off this humbug after the British Presa bud published the career details. The two were established as long standing Soviet agents and a fruit, cellars full of liquor ber of passersby who enquired cording to recent public opinion needed disorderly drunkards. were

the trim have made this Christmas about

Little Balling polls, Labour has now -edged before the

of

the British existen.co

Government

од display astounded into leading place. mass celebra- dinghy

sink. had been successful in keeping the best-fed mystery could be stated in print.

all news of them out of the tion Britons have ever The Parls correspondent of the Dally Express, S. L. Solon, newspapers, Russia might have known. and his staff extracted from the suddenly

From Paris

THREE SUCHS

produced them

French polleo tho Information blameless apostles of peace,

that the British police had

asked them to find two missing members of the British Foreign Office last soon in France,

They then learned that there Wag political angle

to the disappearance. They then aster- tained the men's names,

Had they not carried out this detective work, the nowe might bave been kept indefinitely from the British public.

enother

Shocking

CECOND, the British public had to realise that the system

London. "Give him a boat for Christ- Support for the Torles URKEYS galore, moun- mast" appealed one elògan in a dropped sharply since the

With summer's following Mr

has

Jest

Butler's

Ac-

Ttains of vegetables and Piccadilly store. Weld, dinner's election folutumn budget.

even the manager.

The bulging wallets and

more purses represented

than Chancellor Butler's squeeze? Britain's state of full employ- The year's end marked

the ment country's record spending spree. With notes

the down pouring from Bank of England, the money in circulation was 21,880 million £130 million more than a year ago.

Al

wives

Christmas week housSO.... massed at the shop of selecting personnel for the Civil Service had fallen into a counters. Clutching wads of state of chaos,

money, they scrambled to buy "The Great Spy Scandal" does more prime poultry, more wines story 119 n

spirits, more imported considerable service by and in this volume. As the Editor putting in permanent form the luxuries than ever before, of the Dally Express describes it men's employment records.

Spending an average £10 on The career of Burgess makes food and drink alone, the wives

But there is

in his brief foreword, it is “a story of pressure by newspapers particularly

to get the news and of dover-

mination in high places to con-

because his run went on

the

With jobs chasing men up and country, Britain's workers during the year gained wage increases totalling £400 million. Part of this wealth was swelling the spending wave.

- New Year Prospecta

about

It

may Tery popularity further in the New Year.

Wage claims totalling an extra 2500 million a year have still to be settled.

Amang the claimants are the miners, railwaymen and builders. The dockers, with work vital to the export trade, have already put in demands. now 00,000 dockers,

£13, 183. averaging

id. per "substantial" week, want riso. The 20,000 Bremen, cam-

The

and the fremen,

aro

the tills, farsighted businesmen 45. 0d, want an extra 305.

But as the notes Bowed into ing between £8. 175. and £11.

mly the claims were already

worrying

by a flat statement prospects for 1086.

from the Transport and General The Now Year, they believe, will be a decisive one in the Workers Union to the effect story of Britain's postwar pros that increased pay should not shocking reading, of wealthy businessmen als perity and full employment

depend on bigger output. so ride those of factory workers will determine whether

indo-

Tightening Squeeze long, and ended so recently, and and tradesmen demanded good tion will continue with prices ceal the newa."

speaks of such wild imprudence quality, too.

and wages chasing each other This story is what gives the on the part of the authorities.

Prices? book a political value which may Before the war he professed make it rank with the famous to be a member of some Brillah torilenate, they could always Number or John Wilkos's The

Briton which Farist organisation and to have storm out irately to buy more

SODOWNLOTO taken part established the right

Nuremberg cheaply to make political com- ally. His friends say he had minet,

been instructed to hiltrate the Party, but publicly

North

Smt. For,

of the

British

In a

da chapter after Beltiah Fascist movement by the chapter shows, the struggle was Cotramvaist

pal one.

newspaper,

salernen seemed

-

Up

the

and

Butler

to onos од

Mr Macmillan, taking over or whether the non-stop slide in

Mr Butler's Big Squeeze, has to the value of the pound can be discourage

the payment of halted to give true worth to the unjustified demands. These worker's earnings.

would help to price British The man striving to stabiliso goods out of overseas markels. Britain's economy, fil-year-old

tightening the SQUEEZO Mr Harold Macmillan, the new arly in the New Year, he is

early Chancellor Enough Pound Notes

advice will have the experience of Mr R. A. expected to ask the banks to in-

tersity Credit upon

restrictions by Even though things cost jung

which to draw.

old loans further wlashing however he professed sincare conversion, Lough, likes to be considered to However, as soon as the war over five percent more than last But alongside the Christmas customers, restricting now reliable,

and the lobe series of started he was taken into an year, they had enough pound cheer, the cold fact faces M and clamping down harder

of M.1.0 called the notes not to worry overzuph. always disingenuous and some- off-shoot

even under the hire-purchase finance. Macmillan that And the housewives have not providant Mr Butler, Britain's

Probably he will embarras a atarkly untruthful onswee Specialist Organisation Execu

businosads politicians

a cloak-and-dagger body been concentrating on the food cost of living rom by 20 percent number of one-man wed officipi Live a

OVER the last Loun

and throw Roma workers out Spokesmas was certain to domażo・ Which dealt with mabolarin shopa. They have growlod all free-momillan.. has to, adcapt, of jobs, The Tory government the reputation for reliability of Mvuded: territories amoring departments of the bir stort, that Britain's governments, Tory will be blained for possible

sales 10 percent above.

Christmas Labour can henceforth exe hardships--and Labour will gain pect to romain in once only so a mmber of votes at the nort THE LODE MREsher, provide fall, Cleneral Election,

engploymain even khoughs" sklep But, rothe TOY government kam pad gonna brute to infation, a must continue is squeeze i to

Elanes

from

the newspapers who furnished agents material for the questions."

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In Dard the pound" and ha-;

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Page 13,

Russia plays a game of wait and see for

This Richest Prize

Russell Spurr

Rangoon

HE golden pagodas, the silken-robed dancers, the banquets and applause

all these were shown or given to tho Russian visitors in full measure because the Burmese are polite.

did not tell Naturally, the lavish hosta Comrades Bulganin Krushchev about the damaging activities of the Burmese Communists. Nor did any whisper of the misery and dis- content below Burma's smiling surface reach distinguished guests from Premier U Nu or his Ministers,

the

But while Messra B. and K. were basking in the hospitality,

to

went by plano and train sample the Burma they did not

I

800.

I learned that 5,000 troops of the Communist jungle

which

orders

till

apparently

army-

takes

from Moscow--are scattered around Mandalay.

Together with the Karens and other rebel bands, the Reds are tying down 100,000 Burmese Government truops, holding the and peasants 10 ransom, strangling the country's economy. Villages are sacked; houses burned" and burgledi farmers robbed

The murdered. and water pipeline to Rangoon has been blown up and trains go sky-high regularly along ill-guarded railways,

NEGLECT

The

the

UAD

NICKEL

MANDALAY

FLASKER

**SILAN STATES**

TUNGSTEN COPPER

RANGOONS

BURMA

WDS

ĮPAKISTLE

CHINA

INDIAN OCEAN

and lucrative

markets, operate trade agencies concessions. But this is just shrugged off as one of the parks of power,

I got a hint of the under-

from surface misery

humble, ugged folk.

They find their paper noten are worth only one-fifth of the old British rupeo. Necessities liko cotton, cloth, and paraffin

almost

unobtainable

arc

many outlying areas, and prices for such "luxurles" as looth-

make pasto and

their soap purchase impossible.

The valuable denk forests are

But do not think Bulganin of Only a neglected.

quarter

and Krushchev irave missed a the pre-war output is getting

Although trick,

they did not down the river to Rangoon. The

To impress the Soviet visitors

encounter ang of Burma's rebels exaat tolls all the way. Premier U Nu bustled around. sorrows, they were fully briefed

oll Industry (now Rangoon

dloaned up. on the situation by Soviet still works notonalised)

well Broken pavements

tem- diplomats in Rangoon, were balow capacity, The pipeline

porarily cleared of native stalls

TARGET ruined But carried fuel to the

selling pote and pans, razor Central blades, and rolls of cloth. Rangoon refinery from Burma will never be repaired.

Tin, wolfram, and ruby mines are cut off behind rebel lines.

Burma is still Communismn'a in Asia. most profitable target they Moscow may ni interfere

thic

British business men kept in

as well the background,

Now the boltom has fallen out of the rice market-the Government has something like Its on a 2,000,000-ton surplus

the hands and all

develop- ment plans dreamed up by the planners in Rangoon have gone to pol.

for

might. They are feeling the the moment while its peace and pinch of this threadbare era. co-existence theme is mesmeris Some of the larger concerns, Ing so many of Asia's inexperi-

Irrawaddy Flotilla enced politicians. like the

have

been The Burmese Communist Company, nationalised. Foreigners being squeezed out

long

are Party is not strong enough

to

win in a straight fight, though

Let the Red jungle force stay around, is Moscow's policy. Let ineffelency and chaos run their

Four British importers have it is strong enough to turn down shut their Rangoon offices in the Government offers of amnesty.

Others are expected So Burma, the richest country past year.

to pull out at any time. in Asia, is going begging.

British business men would Bulganin and Krushchov got

hint about any of these not be so bitter if they did not course.

The Soviet can afford to walt. ex- see so much corruption around. things from the Burmese,

The wives of Government Its chief ally in Burma is me.

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Ministers openly manipulate the more high-priced rice.

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