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Veid (hiracroo) ON aot of - ia e , an ™ ° Mohr MacArthur i ¥. Vineroed Tele. Room ‘ “T : ~ Reuters vi “ LONDON, Feb. §—The Brit- ish Foreign Office said today it if had “never seen any evidence” - f that qyissing British diplomats f : Gut Burgess and Donald Mac-|__ g “Lean” had “leaked” official in- _ formation, as alleged by Gen. Douglas MacArthur: - | A spokesman was replying to questions at his press confer. ence on MacArthur's statement linking his dismissal in 1051 as United States Far Eastern Com- ‘mander with the case of Bur. . ‘ge5s and MacLean, : Wriiing in Life magazine, MacArthur said the real reason behind his dismissal hy then President Harry Truman might ‘have been “my recommendation made in January (2951) shortly before my release, that a trea- wi son trial be initiated to break _ up a spy ting responsible for te ee & the purloining of my top-secret poh a * iene .a cu? ing 3 rine ay? eget eZ os api, Teas ate reports to Washington.” [In Washington, MacArthur’ | charge that he may have been fired for demanding a “treason ‘trial’ of Red spies in Washing- ton brought promise of a Senate investigation by Internal Se- curity Subeommittee Chairman James O. Eastland (D-Miss.). {The Senator told an inter- Spawn, 5 FE in Wash. Post and _/d Times Herald viewer: “As reported in the - Wash. News press, that is a very, very se- . rious charge, and we shall cer- . Wash. Star tainly go into it’) | N.Y. Herald sade Foreign Office spokesman - Tribune 1 “We have never seen any evi- Tdénce or been’ provided with any which would show that in- formation at that time leaked through these people." MacLean and Burgess disap- peared from England in May, 1951. Burgess had served in the British Embassy in Washington from August, 1950, until early May, 1951, when he was recalled to London and asked to resign rvire.. from the Foreign Service. _ N.Y. Mirror N. Y. Daily News -__ Daily Worker The Worker New Leader D re ate