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A i eA Pre rren aes oe a Pa acta = F MR:“ACHESON* QUESTIONED ON * MISSING MEN” FROM OUK_OWN CORRESPONDENT WASHINGTON, Thursday. Wr. Acheson: United =, States secretary -. of State, «© was questioned © ‘during © the « Gen, \MacArthur inquiry to-day about ithe two. missing British oreign ‘Office officials. Genator Brewster, Republican, said: “ tf these men prove to be Soviet sympatnisers it would, I assume, be -quite & ‘serious. matter in ‘foreign. rela- tions?” . hones mo > “That is correct,” Mrs Acheson replied... To another question he said ghat if Mr. MacLean had juris- dicti@n over relations with. the United States, “he would have ynowedge of what our discussions werejin Paris “at the Forelge Mints" ters # mealing OD ~ Atlaniia" Pact ’ Senator Brewster! remarked . Mr. Acheson that Mr, MacLean *belleved to have & thorough kno ledge of secret Anglo-American. © changes on such subjects. as North Atlantic Pact. the Korean war and the Japanese peace treaty.” » According to the State Department this morning there had been nO formal notification from Britain to Washington of the officiais’ absence. Mr. Sattherwaile, Deputy Director of the State Departments Office ’ of Commonwealth and Northern Euro- pean Affairs, few tO London on Mo day on, other business. os” ae oO BRIEF STAY _ . Both the officials are remember in Washington. Acquaintances € ‘pressed the 0 (inion that neith woult, contemplate associating him- gel th Communists. Mr.| Burgess's stay here was un ysuallb brief, He arrived in August. professional G@haracteristics, He held, according to informants. here," -" very junior” position. | a is duties, were officially giver as, “Refugees. miscellaneous an: special | reports.” The latter referred only to, weekly appraisals of various aspects; ef political life in America. * ; nited States papers show con+ siderable disquiet over news of the disappearance. The Journal-Ameri- can commenta that the. disappear- €. < ; : ‘ tish officials here merely sta’ today that Mr. Alan MacLean. ngd beeti recalled; ‘for.:" urgent. tamdly, v ‘yeasonsnetse Ser eday by the Foreign, Oficp- a bet was ive haya Bite "he prot fe a, ae