Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 7, 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba It Winnipeg free december spy spills Beans in the communist Femme at Oxford and Cambridge in the some undergraduates were recruited As soviet Maclean and in his the climate of treason its called the fourth Man in North the author reveals that two other distinguished englishmen were also soviet they confessed when cornered but were rewarded with secret the Book Ted to the unmasking of sir Anthony Art adviser to the As the fourth it soon became Clear with two Clear Days in Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean had broken clean the incoherent message left by Bur Gess for Goronwy Rees a Friend from University Days set up an Echo in his mind of an occasion Many years earlier when Burgess had made some kind of jokingly Rees believed at the that he was a comintern agent and that Maurice was a close Rees voiced his suspicions to Anthony who visited him of the afternoon of May but Blunt insisted that Rees had no Good reason for reporting his suspicions to the belief that Burgess might be a soviet Blunt rested on a casual remark made years earlier and apparently never repeated to anyone Burgesss publicly expressed anti americanism was also hardly what one would expect from a professional soviet Blunt pointed out that Burgess was one of their oldest friends and to make this kind of allegation was to say the the act of a i must go and look for him when Burgess failed to turn up for dinner at the Hart Wells the following Blunt became an extremely worried Hartwell said lightly that their Friend was not noted for punctuality and they waited before sitting Down to their Blunt appeared increasingly Sud he got up and said apologetically i feel i must go now and look for Hartwell Learned later that the eminent Art critic and prostrated by his unavailing efforts to solve the mystery of Burgesss had taken to his sick with reported his suspicions to the disappearance of Burgess As Well As Maclean left Philby beleaguered in his companionship with Bur Gess left him open to suspicion and his usefulness to the russians had been Des the Cias Jim Angleton Felt cheated it was now up to the British to the Case and Deal with Philby in their own lackadaisical the americans showed no inclination to share their secrets with mis they were so appalled by the disappear Ance of the two diplomats that their Only move was to declare Philby no longer acceptable to the Basil receives medal the fifth Basil the could now be stood Down to enjoy the benefits of american citizenship with his wife and he was found a govern ment Job in Washington was even rewarded with a medal for his unpublicized the Case of the missing diplomats became Public knowledge on june through stories in the daily express and daily an Alert British correspondent in Paris had fastened on a conversational slip by a talkative Contact in the eliciting the Bare fact that two unidentified members of the foreign office Queen Elizabeth talks with Anthony Blunt in this 1959 rare photo Junt the fourth Man last of a series were being sought for questioning by French and British As Blunt bad indicated to he saw nothing to be gained by voluntarily approaching the so powerful was the aversion of intellectuals generally to what they saw As playing the informer that mis obtained disappointingly Little Evi Dence from who individually could have shed Light in murky the popular press was having an unprecedented run of Field openly attacking Whitehall and its mandarins for trying to cover up a scandal which plainly discomfited and indicted rattled ministerial spokesmen in parliament failed to allay spreading suspicions that there was an official conspiracy of soon there was press speculation that an unnamed third Man might be in Philby survived a series of interrogations without being forced into a confess there was no hint anywhere that a fourth Man might actually have been the trigger that sent Burgess and Maclean speeding off into the Maurice Lay Low while the main inquiry centred on who Brazener out an accusation from Marcus Lipton in the House of commons that he was the third Burgess and Maclean reappeared in Public for the first time in Moscow in Burgess never pretended to enjoy the drab anonymity of life As a russian exile and his homesick Ness led him to inquire if the British govern ment would give him a Safe conduct to return Home for a the very suggestion displeased the British More than it frightened the notion that the unstable Burgess might make one More switch and reveal All prompted the fourth Man to come Forward and make his own private confess Ion to the interview took place in the London Flat of the future head of the British secret intelligence though he was abroad at the no bargains were struck in Advance Maurice the spy was scarcely in any position to like Basil in Washington before he received in the utmost secrecy the equivalent of a Royal Pardon for turning Queens Evi Dence and Contri Tely unfolding his own secondary but guilty role in the nefarious exploits of Maclean to a lesser of Security chiefs had no authority to Promise but those above him could and did exercise their because Maurice had owned quite of his own submitting vital evidence which threw new Light on the subversive practitioners of the past 25 leniency doubtless seemed the sensible and proper too ghoulish to contemplate it was not a decision which either the popular press or the vigilantes at West Minster would have understood or whether Legal opinion would have unanimously approved this extralegal line of prudent clemency May equally be ques what was the alternative a sensational then another somewhat tardy treason trial held in Cam Era it was too ghoulish for any British government to contemplate per the Macmillan government in the aftermath of the inglorious Suez a further complication which possibly clinched the Case for a gratuitous Pardon was the Public Eminence of the fourth not Blunt the fourth Man that anyone suggested that Equality before the any More than the prerogative of could be airily trifled with it was simply that Maurice had won such Rek Nown in his own Field that he had been signally to draw him into court might fortuitously Many eminent maurices voluntary confession could not have been More it was As if an Over scrupulous Ard Bishop of Canterbury had Felt impelled to admit that invincible doubts about the thirty nine articles were the result of his reckless dabbling in Witch Craft and Black magic As a Young in the Case of no equivalent of a consist orial tribunal could have been appealed to common sense and a shrinking of compassion had to be exercised so Maurice remained a free though not exactly a Happy pcs under fire for refugee shift from the news services a spokesman for the Winnipeg mennonite Central Relief committee accused the Feder Al government yesterday of leading private refugee sponsors Down the Garden path by reneging on its commitment to sponsor thousands of John the committees overseas said the governments move left private sponsors concerned and con we feel like weve Beer led Down the Garden Wieler the private sector has been successful in its commitment to the government was supposed to match but it backed Down and said we should look after the remaining he was reacting to a government announcement that it is reducing its sponsor ship of leaving the bulk of a quota to private Sidney chairman of the Winnipeg refugee assistance said the government decision recognizes the Success of Community sponsorships in carry ing the Elizabeth executive director of International said the policy change int a but recognition by the government of private sector and were proud of Wieler that the govern ments move might Dampen the enthusiasm for absorbing the refugees into i dont agree with the Way the govern ment committed itself to a policy and then backed there is a certain Buncom Foutab Leness for us in that kind of government he the government came came under heavy criticism elsewhere yesterday for what Crit Cis called caving in to the backlash against indochinese Atkey change to Aid cambodians nation Dennis Murphy of the Gen Era Secretary of the Canadian conference of Catholic described the policy shift As a breach of Treyve in effect caved in to an Antrim anti refugee lobby that around in this he said in a in the Toronto Liberal Peter Stollery accused immigration minister Ron Atkey of changing the policy just so that external affairs minister Flora Macdonald could fulfil the pledge she made earlier this month at the United nations to provide million in cambodian Atkey acknowledged to reporters the government plans to use part of the savings resulting from the new policy to meet Cana Das Promise of million in Aid for the starving people of Atkey said the government will save in settlement expenses for each Refu gee the government would have the minister told the commons that Canada will meet its commitment of provid ing million in Relief to Cambodia and might even be Able to increase its contribution As a result of the new refugee the government stands to save million if private groups sponsor the remaining refugees to be allowed in Stollery referred to the governments earlier decision to redirect Money not spent on Job creation programs to the refugee program and asked Why the conservatives were redirecting that Money again always at the expense of people the my said Atkey should redirect the thousands of dollars set aside for govern ment advertising to cambodian Atkey had already come under fire during his appearance before the commons com Mittee on manpower and Liberal immigration critic Robert Kaplan termed the move a cop out and said Atkey was appeasing opponents of the refugee he called it the most disappoint ing thing the minister has done since taking the new policy was first mentioned wednesday during a private meeting involving miss Macdonald and a group of 30 Community and Church leaders involved in refugees resettlement across representatives of the groups say they Are stunned and sickened by the governments the leaders represent institutions which have arranged umbrella sponsorships with the government to Cut red tape for private groups wanting to sponsor Atkey told the committee the shift recognizes the governments belief that private sponsors provide More personalized he also said the government will sponsor More refugees if private groups do not reach the target by the end of a spokesman for the major group in operation said in an interview leaders attending the private meeting feel sick about the Patricia the groups regional director for the Toronto de scribed the move As robbing Peter to pay Paul and said the commitment of Aid to Cambodia should not detract from the indochinese refugee she said Atkey was wrong in saying in the commons that private groups Are enthusiastic about the father Murphy said the government action simply amounts to the government reneging on one commitment to pay for spokesmen for two Edmonton area groups sponsoring refugees also expressed Digap one said it is a cop out for the government to Tell private groups youre doing so were going to Back Atkey told reporters the governments priority now is to get our hands on every Dollar available for food and medical Aid to Cam Bodia where million people Are threatened with in the he rejected opposition suggestions that the government had removed the incentive Lor private sponsors to come Liberal maps said canadians have been generous so far because they believed every refugee they sponsored would Lead to another boat person coming into Atkey responded that canadians have a new Challenge to free up for Aid by sponsoring one if that int a i dont know what a better careers every saturday in the free Zahway Cor fiction advertisement of 1979 ground beef Foj Tovatt we Are sorry for any inconvenience caused our to will omm no t Winnipeg adult educate Centre an adult High school Grade Xii 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