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rn a Breakdown year ago” eecek’ clends and collungues of MacLean assure me that anythi toe the sort would be entirely allen to Ate character aod | whole record, The suggestion that ‘either has highly se information or had access to top-secret ‘documenta “of We_ grasiest value to a certaln foreign Fower” is a Sight of fancy.4 /S MACLEAN, as acting head of the Foreign Oftcg(Ameri~¢ 5 ‘fean Department, would handia many confidential papers, *4 Sbus hardly those of ata “tons of Defence and Security. 2 ée Washinglon Embassy, was not actually employed at the _ & time of his disappearance. He was on leave.” But like | 3° MacLean he is now “absent withaut leave’ in| ** rhe regulations are that any official om leave must keep the! Yureign Office informed of his whereabouts, That is why, ae" the Foreign Office announced yesterday, both men are Bi pended ag from June l—seven days after they vanished. ; “The statement algo nated that “ MacLean had = breakdown fadyear agocowing to oversirain but was believed to have fublys “pdpovered.” It came while he was at the Cairo Eribassy. But: nd was passed as completely Q6 for work : gain severa) months. Maclean’s younger brother, Alan MacLean, was called home . from New York on May 30, He is an alde to Sir Gladwyn Jebb, : permanent British delegate to the United Nations. The; reason of his recall was given as “ private family ai & "s Went-on | birthday. ent-’on. birthady | UT was his 38th birthday when tall, schelarly Donald Quart MacLean walked out of his lQ-roomed home in the little Kent village of Tatsfield without saying & word af his plans to his American-born wife Melinda as she waved goodbye or-the two young sons he adored.” "| p secret character affecting ques so ~s* BENRGESS, who returned & few weeks aga from the *, rs. Macbean expests ber a baby next week. % mi after Mr. Macbean's dis- laprearance his sona, Fergus, 7. and David, § fell A with measles Vesterdsy, Mrs. MacLean. who hed nureed Ker husband Sack fo Healih after Ris breakdown, wes joined by her mother from Paris ‘to help Jeok affer-the auidren. \' She bad @ phone talk with her father Mr: Francis: Maxilng, in Chiesa at expressed the view thet her husband has had a recure renee of the treakdosn, Like ber father, she does not belleve he has “dinanpeared | behind + the « inom Surtain.* eee, ta : My, Maclean's mother, Lady 1° Macbean, widow of Sir Donald MacLean, Libsikl Party leader and Minister of Educalion in 1031, waa igaid yesterday tobe “vastly dis fyessed and confined bo bed." at her Kensington fiat‘ wy Mri MacLean was known to ine villagera ag a stodent-llice, almost |: careless type, He waa st geet in village Ehree weeks aga when tked the nalf-mile from his 2 0 the “local, the ON Ship, fato the par with a tall mand whe might have been Mr. Burgess. the lother missing Foreign Office offelal They chatted for a lew minutes, then left" a’ _ Beyenteen years aga Mr. Mar | Lean, an expert in FPredeb and, German, graduated at Cambridge. A year later he ettered ¢ihe Diplomatic Service aa a, Tpird Secretary. =~ : Since then he hea beer popeed | to Paris, Washington and Cairo, geturning w London last November, He became Head of the American. Department because of hia vast knowledge’ of American afisirs, ~° , ; His Breakdown occurred @ year ago, but said a Foreign Office’ eolloagiue ‘yesterday, Be ted re gained ali his strength et Lhe time BURGESS *: cs . “Sl ae i | Does. the unexpected; UY FRANCIS DE, MONCY i BURGESS, old-> Ntgnian. eee & ea ck ee ? ' t t 4