Tuesday. September 20, 193S
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE FIVE
Britain's Long Delay In Admitting Role Of Spies Pointed Up
By CHARLES M. McCANN
"Uniled Presi Correspondent
The British Foreign Office
certainly waited a long time be
fore it admitted that its missing
diplomats Don
a 1 d D. Mac
Lean and Guy
De M. Burgess
were spies for
Soviet Russia.
For more than
four years, the
Foreign Office
denied or
brushed off as
mere rumor
circumstantial
reports that
the two men had fled behind the
Iron Curtain.
Now it admits that they were
tinder investigation as security
risks and knew it at the time
of the disappearance.
The remaining mystery is why
the Foreign Office suppressed
the news so long. The Secret
V
Cnaxles Mclaua
Service must have learned the
facts long ago.
One reason seems to be that
MacLean and Burgess betrayed
American as well as British
secrets, and the Foreign Office
feared the effect on British
American relations.
Apparently it hoped that in
time the whole embarrassing
business would be forgotten.
Waited Too Long
But it looks as if the For
eign Office waited too long. Lon
don dispatches report that both
Conservative and Labor mem
bers of the House of Commons
want to know why and may
demand a Parliamentary inves
tigation. MacLean, now 42, and Bur
gess, now 44, took a channel
steamer for France on May 25,
1951, and vanished.
It was not long before rumors
started to circulate. Then came
specific-reports. Six months aft
er the disappearance, for in
stance, a former Russian artil-
In The Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS"
Graham Dean, in his "Editor's
Notebook" in his Ashland Ti
dings, has been doing some spec
ulating about a fortunate real
estate investment made in Port
land back in the late 1860s by
our old Uncle Samuel. He says:
"Uncle Sam is going to make
a handy piece of change when
he sells the Portland downtown
block of property on which the
80-year-old Pioneer post office
is located. The structure and site,
no longer needed for postal serv
ices, is a desirable business loca
tion and will soon be offered at
public sale.
The block of 'land was pur
chased by the government in
1869 for $15,000 and the three-
story . building was erected in
1875 at a cost of $365,000. The
builtfing has repaid its cost many
times through the years and will
have no value to a buyer today
since it will have -to be wrecked.
"On the basis of the original
land investment of $15,000,
Uncle Sam is likely to get as
much as half a million- dollar's,
which is pretty good increase in
values." ,
TT , WOULD be interesting to
figure out what would have
happened in the case of a private
investor who might have bought
the land in question back in 1869
and had held it ever since and
PAID TAXES ON IT.
I have no ' way of knowing
what the taxes would have been
in these 80-odd years. But if
some private citizen .anticipat
ing that Portland was going to
be quite a town some day, had
bought that block of land and
had kept it vacant all these
years, seeking only the land
profit without risking a cash
money investment in a building,
or other improvements, I imag
ine that taxes would have taken
quite a bite out of his half mil
lion dollar profit.
rpHE fact that the federal gov-
ernment owns a lot of prop
erty ariund over the country but
PAYS NO TAXES is too little
understood in our scheme of
things. A good thing to remem
ber in areas where the govern
ment owns a lot of property (and
runs a lot of businesses) is that
what the government DOESN'T
pay in the way of taxes the citi
zens HAVE TO PAY.
THE American Meat Institute-
which has probably done
.more for the livestock industry
than ALL the politicians put to
gether relates in a recent bul
letin that the number of retail
food stores having 100 per cent
self-service meat departments
has jumped since 1952 from 178
to 11,500. It adds that of the ap
proximate $9,000,000,000 spent
for meat in retail stores last year
about 40 per cent.was handled
by self-service departments.
rPHAT brings up an interesting
subject.
These self-service-departments
enable the stores to get along
with less help and, of course,
by enabling them to get along
with less help they make it pos
sible to pay the higher wages of
recent years.
When self-service stores first
came in, it was generally feared
that they would result in large
UNEMPLOYMENT. That hasn't
come about. Labor is consider
ably scarcer now than it was
back in 1952. And i employment
is considerably greater.
WHEN power looms first came
into use in England long,
long ago, there was DESPER
ATE FEAR that mass unemploy
ment and actual starvation of
displaced workers would follow.
It didn't happen.
DOWN THROUGH THE
YEARS,, labor-saving machinery
has considerably increased em
ployment instead of decreasing
it. It has done so by lowering
the costs of production and thus
enabling people to consume more
of the products of industry.
AUTOMATION (meaning ma
chines that run by them
selves) is the latest bugaboo. It
has a lot of people shivering in
their boots.
History teaches us rather, clear
ly that if we have the good sense
not to crowd our booms TOO
FAR and TOO HARD, thus
bringing on a bust, automation
will increase employment rather
than decreasing "it.
IN THE bulletin just quoted, the
Ampriran TVTpat Institute of
fers the interesting statement
that backyard grills have cer
tainly helped meat consumption
this year.
They have helped to set a rec
ord of 8,000,000,000 hot dogs and
some 200,000,000 pounds of ham
burger. Last year the hamburger
figure was 180,500,000 pounds
and in 1952 (when there were
far fewer backyard grills) it was
only 76,000,000 pounds.
Sunday School Planned
In Griffin Creek Area
A Griffin Creek area Sunday
school will open at the , Griffin
Creek Grange hall on Sept. 25
under sponsorship of the Ameri
can Sunday school union, a non
denominational organization.
The weekly services will be at
10 a.m. Sundays.
Allen W. Hill, Central Point,
district Sunday school mission
ary for the ASSU, is supervisor
of the new school and is in
charge of its organization.
Hill said that all interested
are welcome to attend.
.Ihey never tackle him any more since,
they found out; he gave so much
to the United Community Campaign."
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lery officer wrote in a Paris
newspaper that he personally
had seen MacLean and Burgess
in Moscow. Similar reports were
published from time to time.
On April 3, 1954, Vladimir
Petrov, Russia's chief spy in
Australia, turned himself over
to the Australian Secret Service.
It was disclosed that Petrov
had given the facts on MacLean
and Burgess to the Australians.
The Foreign Office dismissed
the information as "hearsay."
Commission Publishes Report
But an Australian royal com
mission, which for 11 months
had gone through the volum
inous spy information Petrov
gave, published its . report last
Wednesday.
Petrov himself gave his story
of the MacLean-Burgess case in
a London newspaper Sunday,
and the Foreign Office couldn't
deny it.
He asserted that they had been
recruited as spies for - Russia
while they were students at
Cambride University 25 years
ago.
It had been disclosed, after
their disappearance, that they
had been members of the "left
wing circle" at Cambridge. But
the Foreign Office didn't make
the disclosure. It came from men
who had known MacLean and
Burgess.
It was brought out that both
men were heavy drinkers, and
sometimes were ugly in their
cups.
So one mystery is how Mac
Lean and Burgess got into the
Foreign Office in the first place
and how they stayed there so
long.
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