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Bishop John M. Burgess, suffragen bishop of Massachusets commented after the speech that Pike "said what needed to be said in these days." Rev. Frank Lewis, S.J. of Boston said, "If he means what I think he means to say, I don't agree with him, and understand why his recent statements have caused so much controversy...
...world's most celebrated woman authors, Dame Rebecca West has been passing chilly judgment on traitors for some years now. Her earlier book, The Meaning of Treason, which dealt mostly with Nazi traitors, has now been expanded to include more recent defectors to Communism: Klaus Fuchs, Burgess and McLean, the Rosenbergs; and she winds up with a few words on the madcap, if not strictly treasonous, doings of Christine Keeler and friends...
...Communists for ideological reasons. The Communist "network of perceptions and association and interpretations," she writes, "made the Nazi-Fascists seem like hogs rooting among the simple, unimproved beech mast of the world." She also makes the cogent point that the well-publicized flights from England of Spies Bruno Pontecorvo, Burgess and McLean were deliberately contrived by Moscow to destroy U.S. confidence in England and sow disunity among the allies...
BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Burke's usual bag of interesting cameo players: Hans Conried, Broderick Crawford, Dan Duryea, Rhonda Fleming, Burgess Meredith and Mamie Van Doren...
...Dancing. Novelist Edwin O'Connor has always created characters with a tongue or two in their heads. In his first play, his hero is a retired vaudevillian, Waltzing Daniel Considine. Burgess Meredith acts, sings, and dances the part as if gazing nostalgically into the splintered mirror of a show-biz Narcissus grown...