Canada: THE DOMINION: Five Red Rings

The Canadian spy melodrama labored into the last act. Five months after it started to probe the cloak & dagger activities of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, the Royal Commission on Espionage last week summed it all up in a fourth and final report. All told, it had uncloaked 17 Soviet Embassy officials, and charged them with spying in Canada.

Two days after the report was issued Prime Minister Mackenzie King rose to tell the House of Commons and the people the results. Said Mr. King: the Russian Government, which had earlier recalled eleven of the spies, had now told...

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