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...Ainslie Pryor, as Bryan, got a rococo fervor into his big "Cross of Gold" speech that captured the deadlocked convention and enabled the Great Commoner to enter-and lose-the presidential race against William McKinley. Circle Theater took another aghast look at Communist intrigue with The Case of Colonel Petrov,who defected two years ago from the Soviet embassy in Australia. As pictured on TV by Michael Gorrin, Petrov seemed far too dumb to have been head of Red espionage down under, and the show spent much of its time commiserating over the soul struggles of Sanford Meisner, playing...
CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 12--Vladimir Petrov, the former Soviet spy chief in Australia, said today Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean lied when they asserted they never were Soviet agents...
...Petrov, who deserted his spy job in April 1954, issued a statement through the Australian Security Service. He challenged the claims of Burgess and Maclean, the turncoat British diplomats who revealed their presence in Moscow yesterday for the first time since their mysterious disappearance...
...margin of victory was a measure of Australia's disillusion with Labor's Dr. Evatt, whose reputation has suffered ever since some of his aides were mentioned in the Petrov spy case. It was the third general election lost by Evatt, and it put his continued leadership of the Labor Party in serious doubt. There was even a chance that, when final results were in, Evatt would lose his own seat in Parliament...
Unreal & Defeatist. Labor leaders had cautioned Evatt against using the Petrov spy case as an issue in the election, had urged him instead to campaign along traditional Labor Party lines: more Welfare State benefits, reduction of military expenditure, withdrawal of troops from Malaya, admission of Red China to the U.N. But the Liberals pinned the Communist label to this policy as well...