Unlike the American Senate, the British legislature was not expected to interfere so openly with the practice of government.

与美国参议院不同，英国立法机构不敢这样明目张胆地干涉政府行为，

But the same pressures of the modern world were at work, and there was an event which had goaded the British government into taking parallel steps.

但国际环境的压力也同样影响着英国，所以在发生了一个事件之后，英国政府自身也采取了相似的措施。

It was on 25 May 1951 that the two Foreign Office officials Burgess and Maclean disappeared, and then on 10 June the Sunday Dispatch had drawn attention to the disappearance, dropping a strong hint that it was time to follow the American policy of 'weeding out both sexual and political perverts'.

这个事件发生在1951年5月25日，外交部的两名官员，伯格斯和麦克林，突然神秘失踪了。6月10日，《星期日电讯报》报道了这次失踪，并且极力暗示英国政府，应该向美国学习，采取强硬措施，清洗性异常者。

British 'security' had come under scrutiny the previous year, with the Fuchs case being heard.

自从富克斯案件发生以后，英国对安全问题本来就非常担忧。

But Fuchs was a German refugee, and the atomic bomb project had been highly irregular, resting largely upon the work of exiles who in 1940 could not be trusted with anything that seemed likely to be important.

但与失踪案件不同的是，富克斯是一个德国流亡者，这些流亡者在40年代是不受信任的，原子弹项目大量使用了这样的人员，这是该项目本身存在的管理缺陷。