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ri MU; Prime Minister's grave statement in the House of I Commons on Tuesday was in accordance with expectations. It was never doubted that the meaning of the Arcos raid was that the Government would end diplo- matic relations with the Soviet. Mr. Baldwin explained that the conviction of a member of the Air Force for selling State documents early this year had been followed by the disappearance of another State document. The evidence showed that the document had been taken to Soviet House. That in itself justified the search. It flutist be pointed out here that this explicit statement by the Prime Minister disposed of all the rumours that the police did not really search for any particular document, but that the story of a missing document was a mere Pretext for the raid. SO= of the information which 31r. Baldviin gave • the House was extremely interesting, but hardly fresh enough 'to. be surprising.
