◆ SpookStack

irae any both (or Maclean alo > epi boryormation to the Russians at some time, perhaps on one oceasion oniy, and this wus -preying on Donald's conscience. If t..e information was given in Washington, it might have been ‘valuable, and the leak would r have taken a Jong time to trace. “Burgess might have had wind in »Washincton wei bed den erat ieee tt - OU OA WL BV COLE ALU and even got himself sent home “through his etfratic behaviour in order to Warm Maclean on his return. Burgess might perhaps at one time have been a kind of private commissar to Maclean. After hia carefree luncheon, then Pa ae ed aE ES sO, wien, “on that last Friday, Maclean was somehow tipped off that exposure was imminent. At 5.30 he tele- ‘ phones to his contact Burgess who - Bays” “Leave it all to me.” <7" Myth“. HTS theory bristles with difficul- ties, but it does at least explain the sudden departure. And yet. like | all who knew him Tam eonvinced Wao new 0m, 2 am convinced that Donald was not an active Communist. He had a morbid In- clination to suicide, and he would say that only his love for his chil- dren kept him from it. This love was the one emotion which he felt without ambivalence, and he would not have taken any drastic step ‘unless he had been convinced that it was for the best as far as their happiness was concerned.” - Perhaps Burgess and Maclean are at-last integrated. But, as 4 ' Meanwhile * a is elaadnb myth sfiguring them. At first they were seen in. Montmartre and Montparnasse, in Brussels and Bayonne, on the high pass to Andorra, in a bar in Cannes and, with brimming glasses, in a garden- restaurant of Prague. - ; This year they have been heard of playing chess in the Lubianka prison and running an import-export business in Prague: and Guy SBurgess as visiting Browning's villa (“ What's become of Waring? ") north-east of Venice. And so for many years they will b seen until the mystery is solved. if it ever is, haunting the Ojid World's pleasure-traps about the season of their disappearance, bringing with them strawberries and hot weather and escapist leanings: @ portent of the middle symmer ‘S spring. “ orid copyright : reproduction. in whole or part forbidden. ° ai |! 26,. 1951. Maclean's birthday—is closely examined. Maclean seid, what matters most, is people, and that . is what makes his case essentially tragic. | Guy ..Burgess always , enjoyed being himself,‘ and for‘ a while "he lived his own dream, @ realis- tic example’ of the’ “new type of diplomat" who is always de- manded in wartime. But - Donald Maciean, were it not for ‘his lack of balance and’emotional security, had the qualities of a great public servant.. Yet with all his admira- tion.for people, he betrayed those ,~Who -loved him, humiliated those Who trusted him, and discredited those who thougyt like him. ... But HIS IS THE CONCLUDING instalment of par i. Connolly’ $ personal and intimate study of Guy | | | urgess and Donald — Maclean, the two members. tof the Foreign Office Staff who vanished on May - ‘Their crucial last day in. England - Df ee ee ee ee ee ee t As a