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tee British Envoys" Rumored Slain \ ho. ! + By JOHN O'DONNELL f The best whispered thriller n!! ‘Washington in many. a year ip ‘the story of what_repartedly. ! pened to the two British diplomats | | who vanished loaded down with} lho top secret atom bomb informa- tion that Pal Joey in the’ Kremlin | was thirsting to get. { The current yarn 1s that either! | British 1 Information agents oroug).” | American _intelligence ators ators knew the Plan_of tne boy: ‘in advance, _tralled them wh ithe Slipped away_from Londop then—in_the_best_ tradition ofthe movies—auietly. eliminated to. five their secrets to_ age mts_behind the lron Curigin. he story fs that we or the British, or both working together, taught up wilh the two traitors on the French-Italian Riviera; border in a modest hotel room,| shot them both thru the head and}f hen effectively disposed of the} bodies, At least it sounds plausible, more so perhaps than does that peculiar Christmas eve assassina- tion of France’s Adm, Darian, ati Algiers in 1942 after the French naval commander had made his deal with Gen, Eisenhower and then complained that the Ameri- cans were about to toss him aside “lke a Jeman that had - been squeezed dry." - Darlan was murdered by a French boy who was shot within six hours after the admirai’s death. Politically, the Darlan mu er paid off, and got Franklin sevelt off an embarrassin Pot. The inside story has n een told. The case of the mi ng British diplomats remains, bop, ine news. y i * eens ne nn Ee acal aay © DELEVe 03 BY L LETTER JUS a Ladd legs”. Glavin Nichols Rosen Laughlin Mobr Tele. Room _ Neoase Ct * | “oo (00-3 -37Y PS /t3- ‘a NOT ROT RECORDED 133 SEP iS 1951 Rh ——a pER F018 nequest NS . a cog GAB. vector te Page Times-Herald ¥- Vy at rie Wash. Post >t ae Wash, Nows ca _Naoh?* eter —————e N.Y. Mirror N. Y. Compass