26 OCTOBER 1956, Page 8

BUT THE SINS of omission committed by the press on

its own account are a good deal less mysterious than those forced on it by our • egregious security authorities. Mr. Tom Driberg has been obliged by them to make certain minor cuts in his story about Guy Burgess. Why? Not because the Russians might learn something, for they must have known for years everything that Burgess has to tell. So it can only be that the security authorities want to stop people in this country learn- ing something. Perhaps Burgess spilt the beans about them.

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