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Ey mek ee ene eee et ere +i ‘aclean Touch i in Soviet No By NICHOLAS CARROLL, The Sunday Times Diplomatic Correspondent i MAY former Foreign Office col- | and offering a 20-year treaty of friend: ship, ‘were also thought to bear leagues in London of Burgess Maciean imprint. and Maclean have never wavered in their bellef that both men were Within half an hour of the first news eir bene 1 from Moscow about the Burgess-Macican somewhere behind the Iron Cur-! interview, the Foreign Becretary, tain, despite the many formal | Selwyn Lloyd, telephoned (he News Depariment of the Foreign ce. denials by Soviet officials. spokesman afterwards described the news Two weeks ago Mr. Khrushchev him- | as “an interesting development.” self snapped back 6 sharp ceva mat} NO SURPRISE IN - WASHINGTON Mpclean was in Russia. second theory that has gained wide ac rptance in the Foreign Ofice was that WASHINGTON, Saturday. thd greatly improve rafting o vie : Noles, letters from Russian leaders, and Monee news of ‘the iret ea ee in Soviet announcements on important| Moscow of Burgess and aciean occasions during recent years, bore the; Caused no surprise here, as al] speculk- stamp of Maclean's work. tion in the last five years tended reflect the feeling that the two mgn Tt was thought significant that within | \ mad to the Soviet Union. The St: a few months of Maclean's disappearance ied mekt there was a noticeable moderation in t riment refused official commedt abusive tanguage of Soviet Notes to the | on thelr reappearance.—Reuter. West. At the time, this was put down ee to a change in. Soviet diplomatic tactics, hut as the quality of the drafting con- finued to improve former frienda thought they detected the accomplished hand of Maclean. Striking Example ‘he most striking exampie was Marshal iganin’a letter to President Hisen- he eT , on disarmament | last summer. e ast wo uigan. eliors to Président Eisenhower” colnelding with Sid. Anthony Eden's visit to Washington, Te oa ! i j : ‘ : Be? sn ss. Rake atls a ae ees teehee, ano,