◆ SpookStack

7 alte pain tases excerpts Es deer a co rap va cd Real aoe seh I abl 4 “> Guid Burgess Donald MacLean - a now have filled ‘in. th missing chapters - ~ of their squalid past and boastfully an- , nounced intentions to continue on the. "> path of treason." » from five years of mystery in Moscow. . . They are as arrogant as ever. Whether { ‘their personal lives—highlighted in the ‘~ y past by drunken brawls and homosex- uality—-remain as sordid is a problem: | ’ for their Soviet masters. ‘The unanswered question is how the: . *~British foreign office tolerated these +p two young men when they themselves never hid their pro-Soviet views, and: when their personal behavior in Lon-* ‘don, Paris, Cairo and Washington was a: - public scandal. : ~~ The” post-mortem - on ‘this case al- ready has reverberated in many capitals “f--especially in Washington. Only last _week Gen, MacArthur again suggested that the Communists in Korea probably . got their information of his military plans and even of higher American mS policy decisions through Burgess, then , serving in the British Embassy in Wash- . ‘ ingten, and-MacLean, head of the Amer- 3 ican desk in the foreign office in Lon- E, don. é tant mt 2 MET ae Pa ME TT Gprer, 7 ey Be a - get Treason is a crime that revolts hon: ¢ orable men everywhere. Americans will ° “yr sympathize with Britishers who believe *. such despicable characters should hang ” froma gallows. . “—Tirese two are beyond the reach of SAN FRANCISCO NEWS SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF, February 13, 1956 Page ll, pee ats ———INDEXED 4 arene Hi 1956 wo SAN FRANCISCO rarer ne oe? Paw lait ait Ot be wr ont, a A a ee ee SE Sees . .Wes The diplomat-traitors finally emerged ; ah “yh ¥ = . tte ei te aa ne f did | Story, of Burgess & MacLean * British ‘Jaw,* unfortunately. There is, - however, a punishment Britain with our help can give them—deny them success : ‘in imeir efforts to divide and weaken the. > This. ‘sudden surfacing of Burgess : and MacLean has a major objective—to % stir up old British-American difficulties .. . to keep us agitated about the past <; ‘4 while Communism moves into the fu. .: 3 ture. <«°: « Burgess and MacLean already have " contributed to British-American dis- , agreements. Are the British and Amer- : icans to let them continue to do so? : - Are we to reward them with more suc- cesses? -~ |” “ The’ past cannot be forgotten and * ~ should not. It is filled with lessons. But / ‘only the Communist conspiracy will . _ profit if recriminations are permitted to. » poison the future. . About the only way ‘the West can : contribute to ultimate punishment of = Burgess and MacLean is to prove them : wrong. If.the Western alliance does not - fall apart-— If it gets stronger — and if the - . Burgess-MacLean projects to divide and : ‘ weaken the West fail, the Kremlin is _ likely to tire of these men and find them * _useless. When the Kremlin is through with - a man the punishment is usually quick ; 4 and ruthless. Speed the day when the * Kremlin rewards these men. with a — knock on the door at midnight—_, er oer - os DELETED COPY cons € - gy LET JUN 22 ie PER FIA Key: 3H ora Let ey i highend Sates he a er} oardntst Mr. Masenww | Mr. Mohr. - Mr. Parsons_...... ? Mr. Rosen Mr. Tarcm Mr. Nease...— i Mr, Winterraw? Tele. Roova..- | Mr. Holloman. Miss Gandy._- —_