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...Then the lid popped on again...
Once, and then for only a minute, the lid of secrecy was lifted from Canada's espionage case (TIME, Feb. 25). The two-man Royal Commission, investigating Prime Minister Mackenzie King's charges that Canadians had peddled Government secrets to Russia, reported that: 1) eleven men and two women were being questioned; 2) evidence confirmed the serious nature of the matter; 3) there could be no public announcements for another "two or three weeks...
...Department last week just barely lifted the lid of a Pandora's box, gave the public a quick look at the horrors within and then slammed the lid down. The glimpse was enough to show how the Army's little-known Chemical Warfare Service, without firing a shot, had won its weird...
...lid-lifting also disclosed a taut, little major general who is as little known as the service which he heads. Alden Harry Waitt joined CWS when it was organized in 1918, has stayed with it ever since, taking time out to earn an aviator's wings and qualify as a tank driver. A training accident made Waitt so allergic to tear gas that the slightest whiff of it puts him on the sick list...
Last week the dream dissolved. The censors were sniffing again like suspicious bird dogs at the correspondents' dispatches. Just in time for the Big Three Foreign Ministers' meeting, the lid was on again, and tight as ever...