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AOE RE a j DATE: @7 re THE PHILADEL PHA INQUIRER eka Ps. PAGE: 4 +f COLUMN: 22 EDILION: Fria h o Tale , frrZ (2 dann AL y . DEANAQING The Case of the Missing Story First, we had the two missing British dip] ats, “MacLean and Burgess. Despite vagi ficial denials it is generally believed they hauled a tidy lot of top Allied secrets to Mos- cow. But—no one knows. Despite Scotland Yard and the French Surete, it is still a mystery. Then we had the matter of MacLean’s miss‘ ing wife. Vacationing on the Rivicra, she “disappeared” for severa] days. Then, as quietly, she returned. For a day it was an- other mystery. Now? Well, we have yet to see any quote from Mrs. MacLean, at any time. Whether she met her husband secretly, as some say—no one knows. Score another zero for Scotland Yard and the Surete. Now comes the case of the missing storg. he Labor Party’s London Daily Herald pup- Ifshed a story based on alleged Secret Service information, that the two missing diplomats ad been found. After strangely keeping silent for hours, the British Foreign Office aniuounces there is no truth in the report. Every body likes a mystery, and this trick of making three mysteries out of one would be good fun—if the matter were not so seri- ous. Over here, we suspect in Britain too, there is widespread fecling that the public has not been told “the half of it.” All British officials will say is that agents are hunting the diplomats. And all we need now is for the agents to disappear, too. For awhile there was some argument ove phether Sherlock Holmes was really dead, o il keeping bees in Sussex at an advanced dee. From the locks of things we would sa that he at least has left England. 4 D)iyer , Va - a ome! 4