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ne TRE POR PAFLES ““A\CHASINS MEWIS CsLUMN, ULIRS body bus meee st yy (CAUTION: ADVANCE “, #78 COLUMN FOR RELEASE ™ ty OCTOBER a sly tite M A,M,AND P.M, PAPERS, MUST NOT BE PUBLISHED DEFOR! THAT DATE, yy Mr. Dar My. T WASHINGTON REPORT te Sa Ber Wei BY FULTON LEWIS,cR. va Tele, Bs COPYRIGI?,1955, KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC, hte WASHINGTON, OCT, 30 -- There is general agreement among Améfteah > military leaders that when the Chinese Communiats threw their tiilitary fogees inte the Korean War in November, 1050, they knew the Unit dp States would not retaliate against China itself, i question leng has been, how did the Red Chinese leaders know that the wisnamed United Nations forces in Korea «= misnamed, because they were virtually all American =- would not return the complinent by attacking Red bases in Manchuria or in Ching proper, as any OU reasonable desire for victory would seem to have dictated? , Baa ut tee La rn de. Ma hae, 4 Espionage always has scedied thd only logical answer; thas has left a corollary question -- the identity of the agent or agents who picked up the information and transmitted 16 to the Communists, answer may have been found, in the persons of the two desarter Y British diplomatic corps Communists, Donald Maclean and Guy ‘Burgess. The Hpeiftish gove rimentig White Paper on baie Maciesn-Burgesa case saya that in May, 1950, while serving In Cairo, MacLean guffered a breakdown, which was attributed to "overwork and excessive drink- ing," ond was recalled te England for treatment, Pronounced cured, hé waa placed in charge of the American department of the Foreign Office in October, 1950, just one month befere the Chinese Communist ae Gee Fw pio intervention in Korea, The White Paper specifies that this post ae @ ieee? not dea with the major problems of Anglo-American relations, appeared to be ‘teem oe = et hig capacity." However, dipolmats familiar with British a) « ¢ ba <I i forg nN ofrace procedure ody Ghat while the job would net tr policy decisions, it does serve ao 8 sort of funnel shrowgh which flow all British diplomatic. messages between London and the Embassy in Washington. . . oe oe In early 1950, thelivhate Paper stys, security authorities in- formed the Foreign Office that Burgess, then | working” in the Perelgn Office headquarters In Lendon, had been talkihg’ indiscreetly about official secrets and he was reprimanded; this was said to be the first black mark on his record.- ; af (MORE ) 14 L BRANDY IK ¢-4