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...Beria, head of Russia's secret police; British Publisher Lord Beaverbrook; Scientist Irving Langmuir; Sir Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin ; Pope Pius XII ; Philosopher Albert Schweitzer; Poet T. S. Eliot. Among those who have not : Indian Industrialist J. R. D. Tata; Soviet Journalist Ilya Ehrenburg; Atomic Spy Klaus Fuchs; Argentine Physiologist Bernardo A. Houssay; blind Egyptian Scholar Taha Hussein...
Twenty-eight months after the arrest of Traitor Klaus Fuchs (now serving 14 years in jail for transmitting atomic secrets to Russia), the slow-moving British Civil Service had got around to advertising the vacancy and seeking a successor...
...others: Professor Alan Nunn May, convicted in 1946 as a member of Canada's atomic spy ring; Physicist Klaus Fuchs, now serving a 14-year sentence for selling atomic secrets to Russia; Cosmic-Ray Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, who fled, presumably for Moscow, in 1930. Two other Foreign Office men, Diplomats Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess, who disappeared last year and have not been heard of since, are presumed to have fled beyond the Iron Curtain...
...assigning of scientist to the projects and committees on which he thought they would he most valuable one man a Canadian--whom Conant at pointed to a minor committee later turner out to be a member of the Canadian spring which gave some secrets to Russia. The treason of Klaus Fuchs was a shocking and bitter experience for Conant...
...much has happened in the last 25 years to make the members of the class of 1952 believe that beyond mundane effort lies a nebulous ideal. To those who "would win more victories for humanity," President Conant reminded that the conviction of Alger Hiss and the confession of Klaus Fuchs have been heavy blows against the tradition of progress through reform and that now "a dark blanket of public suspicion woven by the same type of persons who have always fought the reformer but now aided by the revelations of the traitorous actions of a few fanatics...