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dar Percy Here on Hurried Call | Britain's Counter-Espionage Chief,Finds Americans i) All Are Taking a Dim View Over Missing Diplomats Curent meetings btw een en Brit Ser J eat United porter ag “a secret. mission.” It Was then made clear that that was the end oof the Interview. Everts subsequent. to Sir Percy's last visit: suggest that neither American nor British public opinion now will be sat- isfied with this airy father-. knows-best: attitude, clude the belated uncovering of the German-born Klaus Fuchs” &s an atom spy, the flght:.to Russia. of a leading British atomic scientist, Bruno, Ponte- eorve, and most recently the disappearance of two British . diplomats who had been sta- toned here. ommenting that : s allied Sel & mandee "of such | forces is.of | irse a. Edgar Hoover: Mr. for practically. anything exeept These ine . Hoover Is the cholce of Senators, turally lef, : feel themselves better quall tied | to step in there, “While Sir Percy's. visit: is de- scribed as routine and he does “youtinely drop into Washing- ton, it. is probable that he hur- ried this call along because of embassy reports that Americans wete taking « dim view of dis- closures. that Eritaln sent. here two diplomats known to be un- Stable. This is not good news at best; when the British want closer co-operation “in atomic and military matters, a ia very . bad. for them. - * Washington has: had. some ex- ‘perience of how diffieult it is ; to achieve unification of the armed services. Any unification of intelligence is always hard- est of all and It ts. bound te be much harder as between coun- tries. It is readily seen here how de- partment heads cling to their private police and it is a rare agency of any consequence that does not also feel the need. for its own “enforcement” or “se- curity” officers. All the bureau- crats. love a spy—provided. he works for them and them: alone, Quarrels over Intelligence atud the MacArthur atory; he relied on his. own G-2, Gen. Wil- loughby, whom the Pentagon * DELETED bry sewr, OB Reed 7 BY cert a, PRPS Foin cues. J JUN 22 JVbox or wrence b B' od =} wizoe _ Crpital Punishment. “Tean is a real pugzle; he was disliked and distrusted, until Gen, Smith, head of Central Intelligence, flew to Tokyo to straighten things:out, ‘What the democracies are be- ginning to see, however, is that the centralized Russian system js making valuable hauls while they run thelr own shows sep~ ae a and rather casually. cult tabelicve t that its Jost dinlo- “Mats, Donal] McLean and Guy { _- Burgess, are more then on a, ree from which they find it thelr temperaments and history. ins ete sea Shey, sown describe Mr. Burgess 0s ip wild. man," but ingist. he was way down on the totem pole at the Embassy. His principal ree cent. asslanment. was. look after a visiting Neyal” Com- mission on the Abolition of Mr. Me- thought to be serlous. and very able, though: it is dented that he | was made privy to any top secret matters, following: a breakdown dn: Cairo recently, As for diplomats. genera'lf, they are sighing for the age. pf innocence when the cause whs always a. beautiful woman. ajd not Russians, Wash. Star iio. “3 S74 WEB ior KECOR DED DED SEP 11 1951 Page ~Limes-Herald Wash. Post Wash. News .W' , Gll~ N.Y. Mirror. . ¥. Compass