[jim]

desk when he came on a fragment
of paper which had evidently been slipped in among the others and then
forgotten. The instant he had flattened it out he saw its significance. It
was a half-page torn out of the Times of about ten years earlier -- the top
half of the page, so that it included the date -- and it contained a
photograph of the delegates at some Party function in New York. Prominent
in the middle of the group were Jones, Aaronson, and Rutherford. There was
no mistaking them, in any case their names were in the caption at the
bottom.
The point was that at both trials all three men had confessed that on
that date they had been on Eurasian soil. They had flown from a secret
airfield in Canada to a rendezvous somewhere in Siberia, and had conferred
with members of the Eurasian General Staff, to whom they had betrayed
important military secrets. The date had stuck in Winston's memory because
it chanced to be midsummer day; but the whole story must be on record in
countless other places as well. There was only one possible conclusion: the
confess