Abstract
May had been a month for plans and preparations, for arguments and manoeuvres behind the scenes. June brought more visible activity. Persia was on the middle page of The Times — in those decorous days the front page was reserved for classified advertisements and the agony column hallowed by Sherlock Holmes — every weekday of the month. Nor was this for want of other news. The sensation caused by the announcement on 7 June that the traitors Burgess and Maclean had fled to Russia on 25 May would outlast not merely the month but the year. It was the main topic for parliamentary questions to Herbert Morrison on 11 June. Because of the King’s illness, Princess Elizabeth took the salute at the ceremony of Trooping the Colour on the King’s Birthday. In the Gulf, FLAMINGO ‘dressed overall’ on that same 7 June and fired a 21-gun salute. In Britain there was again a dock strike and, at the end of the month, General Ridgway, now commanding the UN forces in Korea, sent a message to the C.-in-C. of the ‘Communist forces’ proposing armistice talks. The ground lost by General MacArthur’s rashness had been recovered.
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