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nt | 7 A F if Doubtless” t} the “real spies “te. caught? - wily * .\ y be routine security check err Glavin is a ALESSUES Li BLOr, ° ®: There wi it be great reli-- "missing British dipjemats, Lean and Guy F. D. Burgess, may not haya * . § Rosenberg and Greenglass cases in | this Nichol - “absconded t to Russia a after all, It isa meas country.’ ‘ Nonetheless, such checks ought *, Rosen SA ure_ “of - ‘the s jitieri ness 3 of 9 gur r times thi that the ce at least to indicate what persons are pos , enn immediate assumption, when “it became iy sible security risks. The United States,> Kv Tre . kinwo_thatube two were absent without which has pursued an extremely cautious ‘ Harbo an r % * leaveé was that they had fled to Moscow in”. ' policy in this matter, has a right to expect . 3 Bei t - the shion of Dr, Bruno Pontecorvo, the, that the British government will also pay, 4 M iL ‘w Bri atomic ie scientist wh: who 0 disappeared ; attention to the danger—not through pub-’ Tete. Room ¥ last eptember, ex Of course, purse, the possibility - « He exposure, but through quiet but. firm‘ ~ Neuse =, that_the missing pair may be behind the | 9 action in cases where there ix reason for, Gandy Tron Curtain or may have had contact =T¥h -@ actlon.: Mr. Attlee’s ‘government’ ought to’ : Communist sources on the continent cannot be reminded that at ‘this: touchy:- point: i r he ruled out entirely, but a dispatch from ¢ Anglo-American relations lack of ‘cond, | .: Paris indicates that they sent reassuring ; * dence’ in British security. Precautions) : “ cables to their families from there within i __smerely_feeds hysteria hers.” : ard 1 the last two days.' The presumption is, as 1 “gone acquaintance put it, that: they merely -, “+ went off on a prolenged toot.’ TB Ki If this should prove to be the case, how.*: ’ ‘ever, it still would not relieve: the Foreign | Office of criticism. Both men are known tof. ; " Y be unstable—Burgess, notoriously—yet they \ { “have been left in positlons of authority. ‘ - I swith: access. to important documents. : MacLean, head of the American depart-,; ment in the Foreign Office) haa been’ | privy to'all major Anglo-American diplo-~ pel matic secrets, yet he suffered a “nervous pace ’ breakdown” in somewhat questionable: clr- * ont Cc B. Saat RO EP ig re Segre gS 2 © cumstances in Cairo a year or so age.’ ar paw §t Burgess, a- considerably‘ more junior’) eh: UN? ond gi i, Official, is reported to have Information on.- ‘ Bi ben J t the Japanese peace. treaty, yet his fitness A! “Qu Si. >" er ee ~ has long been questioned even by his’ cole PER FOIA & leagues; “‘He was second-secretary ‘of the ‘ British Embassy here, but was recalled to4 ' England ‘for cause—the ‘cause being his ’ se Por. Ah. = "arrest for speeding three times in.a single fo - 2 27 wp: “ ; day. His potitical sympathies & are said to’ be considerably to the left,“ te The’ fact” that" two officials at "know ! dubiety were retained in positions of re- 7 sponsibility raises an issue as to the validity ‘ , «= Ee of British screening procedures. Nowadays . oe , the sharing ‘ of intelligence | ‘information, “h Be . E, sor ® CON DED 68 1951 sep ii —pmameee Page between / Great. Britain and“ the: United} Timeg-Herald —_—— ‘States, we are told here, is satisfactory, but’} a y. ‘some suspicion remains that the British gove? ’ Wash. Post _ ernment ix reluctant to- act on the informs? ‘ ~ tion available to- it. There + have’ been # ; /_ enough unhappy : incidents—the Klaus} ‘Faebs - : CASE,” ihe. appointment of” John a ‘Me Wash. News —_—— =, Strachey, “with a record of extreme Jeftist Wash. Star — . ee leaning®, as War Minister, the disappearance” of Poilecorvo—to throw tha spptli “ securit precautions and iT British authorities. i * tions if they” are to quate,’ must! : be nel 686 2} 7: Inarac cont 3 ie nel Inoracter ‘ : x? “tes >t o ¢: t Yor seul: es Ps N.Y. Mirror ? . ‘N. ¥. Compass... ,. « patewUNO ik 8 1951 8 a ot Tite: : ek kit eh es Re te ja he iors, + 2 . Seen peers aes arin . ¥ ad SR pe tae Seta Pe oa a Pe