ROYAL COMMISSION

Grey River Argus, 24 August 1946, Page 2

ROYAL COMMISSION

Explodes Canadian u Spy J? Hoax ANTI-SOVIET STUNT COLLAPSES LONDON. In the present international situation, when the reactionary press doesn’t slacken its malicious antiSoviet campaign inspired by the incediaries of a new war, special attention should be paid to the miserable collapse of one widely-planned anti-Soviet campaign for purposes of which international reaction made use of the Canadian Government, the latter willingly offered its services. In a long article in “Pravda,” D. Zaslavsky deals - with the disgraceful finale of .this campaign built up on the reputed transmission by Canadian citizens of certain insignificant documents of a secret nature to minor employees of the Soviet mission. COMMISSION'S REPORT Zaslavsky states that a special

Royal Commission, appointed by the Canadian Government to investigate this matter, has published its i-eport in which, in spite of its px-ejudiced attitude, it could not help denying all the main charges. The commission was forced to refute the main charge that certain Soviet agents were giving ‘‘instructions” to Canadian political figures. < The commission was forced to acknowledge that no harm had been caused to the defences of Canada. The commission acknowledged that no attempts had been made to discover the secret of the manufacture of .the atom bomb and that this would have been impossible anyway, for the simple reason that nobody in Canada was in possession of this information. '