It was getting on towards midnight. Robert Kenneth Taylor, Ottawa correspondent of the Toronto Daily Star, suddenly had a hunch. He called the Beechwood Avenue apartment of Fred Rose, the lone Communist in Canada's House of Commons. Taylor, as well as every other newsman in Ottawa, had heard persistent rumors that Rose had been arrestedor would bein Canada's spy investigation. Now he asked Rose: what about it?
"Well, I haven't been," said Rose. "Here I am. . . ." There was a pause. Then: "Oh, oh. Two men have just come in."
"Police?"...
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