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nro dlgitd e ~ WRargess was describe? toder as te good cinversationalist + when he wanted te be « om slightly book=8h, although not aridly academic!,. “He nade friends easily. He was trather gow! looking, short, With bleck wavy hair'. While in Weshington he lived at 4100 Nebraska Averme, N-W. One of his favorite pasttimes, an acquaint- ance recélied, was tc drive automotiles. The acquaintance remarked that "he liked to be on the movel, "Burgess at one time was privete secretary to Hector MeNeil who then was minister cf state for foreign affairs. Later he was a member of the Far Eastern Department of the Foreign Office with special interest in Chinese affairs. WAL his London club, the Refeom Club, officials ssid they had not seen him for sone time. , "People in London whe kner the two men ssid they apparently had m pronounced political leaninge.* )) The foljiowing ervicle concerning MACLEAN and BURGESS appeared in "Washington Sunday Star dated June 17, 1951, and was written by NEFSOLL_NOYES JR: "The week=end excursion boat, Felaise, bound from Soutbhampton to St. Melo in Brittam, was to sail at midmight. A few minutes before 4t cast off that rridey, day 25; the story goes, @ sports car tore up tc the dowk. The. men jumped out, bags in hand. They tipped a dock attendant, told him te buy hirself a drink and started up the gangplank. ‘Reyi' shouted the porter, ‘What about the car?! "The two men had rented the car that afternoon for 10 days. "We'll be back Monday,' one called over his shoulder. "Donald Duert McLean and Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess were not back Monday. "As all the world knows, these British diplomats thereupon vanished utterly. Within a few days, they became the objects of a continental manhunt as imensive; and fruitless,as ever staged. "4 St. Malo taxi driver said he drove then to Rennes, where he thought they caught a train for Paris. Since then, McLean and Burgess have been reported in s dozen cities, on both sides of the iron curtain. Their relatives received cryptic cables - purportedly from WoLean in Paris and Burgess in Rome - but the handwriting on the telegraph blanks was not theirs. The hottest lead came last Friday from Barcelona ~ ~ She fugitives were said.to have registered ina hote? as Marshall ¥iclean and Willis JohalBurgess. Barcelona had it they were back in France. But for all the tips, the combined é not find then. "With each pePMipe day, the case fbedgnes more securely estab- lished as one of th i uvrtery stories the age. There seen to be plenty of thesries, Dytcef solid clues, None. “The theory which has caused all the excitenent,; of course, is thet McLean and burgess were skipping behind the iron curtain with Western secrets for the kremlin. ety sa) Te