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} Sh ade | | Missing Diplomats L Popular indignation in Britain ever the latest revelationg in the case of Maclean and Burgess is bound te jet loose a torrent of questioning and erlticism When the House of Commons meets next’ month. The white paper has merely added fuel to the indignation. It is a lame document which has satisfied nobody in search of the truth. However, it does acknowledgs the debt te the statement of Viadimir Petrov. Petrov, alter defeciing from the MVD service in Australia, gave out information about Burgess and Maclean which showed that their affiliations with the Soviet espionage network was of long standing. What Petrov said makes the Foreign Office look more than a litle disingenuous in what it put out at the time of the diplomats’ disappearance. The newspapers were assured at that time that Maclean had taken no documents away—-a gross misstate- “ment by omission- On the authority of Petrov, which the Foreign Office does not deny, it appears that in fact Maclean had cartloads of documents pootegraphed “for Moscow's files. Moreover, the - diplomats’ connections with the Russian espionage - system since their undergraduate days in Cam- bridga University must have been known to the British authorities. The disingenuousness of the Foreign Office iz often thought to be traditional. Ta the homé folks, lie for the sake of his ‘country. ‘But in the extreme form in which that disingenuousness has been manifested of late years, the modern practice must be unique. If this kind of misinformation does not stop, fhe ‘governments of the free world will find they hava forfeited all popular confidence. What is amazing is that British officialdom should have borne with the two diplomats for as long as it did. To be sure, Bargess was recalled from service in the embassy in Washington and was not , Officially employed when the vanished. However, j the point will be raised why he got his assignment in the United States in the first place. He was an f | j ” St eo ae admitted homosexual, a frea talker with no bridle > on his tongue, anti-American, and a maniac at the wheel of an automobile. Maclean was just as unsavory-a character. He was the type of drunk - who stays on the booze for days ata time, a violent man who at one time in his term at Cairo saverely 1! injured a colleague and at another totally wrecked { an American's apartment, and he also had homio- « sexual tendencies. He, too, was anti-American~ during his $erm in the United States. All this is apart fromghe known facts of the diplomats’ Com- munist connections. Wa may leave it to the aroused British people to ‘ferret out answers to the questions that are being | asked. The case is a reflection on the personnel _ a8 well ag the security policy of the Foreign Office, . | Eie-responsibility for oe informatitn on a ve Et ot | 1 chsh iw Mapatatt Bn etc PR pp Mr. Tolson ao. ; Mr. Harbo . Mr. Mohr Mr. Parsons ° Mr. Rosen preled “\ Mr. Tamm re Mr. Sizoo Mr. Winterrowd Tele, Room Mr. Holloman Miss Gandy . / . x @ case belongs, of course, to the Labor govérn- ent which was in power when the two diplompts ook: off for the Saviel empire. But the Eden government is finding that-it is being accused ‘ss an accessory. And there must be some anxious “speculation in Downing Street over the answers to “jhe inevitable questions that the MPs will hurl at he. Prime Minister ‘this mgath. One is: Who tippkd __. ff Maclean that he was under investigation aad hus facilitated his getaway? oe pry sae op a B pron d PER FGis neyguied A. aod -h 2 ah — Oi Lr 5 Boardman. , w», Mr, Nichol “Yr. Belmont 4 i Wash, Post and EU Times Herald Wash, News Wash. Star weeds eevee, SLES NOT FEOOKPAD ae 12h OCT 1S 1S55 Tribune — N, Y. Mirror Daily Worker N. ¥. Herald The Worker New Leader Date : ae apie ee” oe Ll “eet ae » i en er,