COMMUNISTS IN BRITAIN

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27370, 8 June 1954, Page 12

COMMUNISTS IN BRITAIN

Action Urged By Anglican Vicar

(NJZ. Press Association—Copyright) XRec. 10 pjn.) LONDON, June 6. Britain was lagging behind Australia, Canada and the United States in action against Communist infiltration, the Rev. Reginald Gaul, Anglican vicar at Rand, Lincolnshire, said in a sermon today. “We need a commission to deal with cur Redsr-and we need it quickly, before it is too late,” Mr Gaul said. “Australians and Canadians know we are fap nearer the Iron Curtain than they are and hence are more likely to be riddled with Communist sympathisers and in danger of Red rot. If we do not act quickly, even they will begin to doubt us and exclude us from their deliberations. “The future of millions in our time

•nd generation may well depend upon the way in which the countries of the world deal with Red infiltration in their governments. “America, Canada, and Australia have already made a realistic begln- « ning. Only Britain lags behind. The country that once sheltered Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean (the missing Foreign Office diplomats) and Professor Bruno Pontecorvo (the missing atom scientist) has no need for complacency.”