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CF Pee ee ed “Burgess, the Spy. . Writes a Column By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY le UY BURGESS of the Burgess-Maclean partnership of Russian sptes in Great Britain and the United States wrote & plece for The London Sunday Express, last February, which is of interest at the present mo- ment because of implications in relation to the forth= coming Khrushchev-Bulganin visit to Great Britain. Burgess clarifies Russian policy, as he under- Vinterrowd stands it, after having said that he and Maclean have oy ind Tele. Room had every opportunity to meet Russians “of different Holloman kinds and at all levels, except the highest official level.” fei KR Gandy Then he says: Mia. BpAalGA “Tt has been sald that we tried to hurt Anglo- American friendship in the statement that we made (when they first showed themselves to foreign corres- pondents}. This assumption is as false as would be eny illusion on our part that we could do anything much to hurt this friendship even if we wanted to. Only Mr. Dulles eould do that.” ; Portrayed as Encmy This is very interesting because obviously John Faster Dulles is now being portrayed as the enemy of Great Britain as part of the Communist Party line in all parts of the world. If he does not go along with British policy with regard to the Near East, it is to :be remembered that Sir Anthony Eden has not gone along © with American policy with regard to the Far East, As a matter of fact, if there is any disturbance of Anglo- Ameérican relations, it is because Great Britain recog- nized Red China too soon and having done that dg- parted altogether from both American and Briti cohcepts of right by insisting that Red China coyid shpot its way into the United Nations. It has been s@id, pit not officially, that Great Britain recognized Red ina after having been promised that the United States would quickly follow. If such a claim, which I neard in London a year ago, is correct, the British were taken in. Burgess says that he wrote a speech for his chief in the Foreign Office which “ran roughly as follows’: “The Chinese People’s Government is a govern- ment of Chinese people by Chinese people and for Chinese people. That is why we have recognized it — I am willing to claim a participation, and the Right the Republican Party, which in the United States Senate is the Jeadership of that p ; é apparently does not belleve that the voters have any interest in the matter. Burgess denies that the present Russian govern- ment is imperialist of expansionist, although it has increased its hegemony over the human race from 180,000,006 in 1939 to about $00,000,000 today. The only reason for the Truman “Containment Policy” and for NATO is to limit Soviet expansion. The article was copyrighted by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc., and The London Sunday Express. Nevertheless it did not attract too much at- tention, perhaps because few identified Its author as the spy, probably figuring that it was somebody else whose ideas were belng given currency. The effort of Soviet Russia to have Red China recognized by the United States and the United Nations knows no abate Se ROVER YO Sheet Gee aaa 276 mal LL ova ment and apparently the purpose of this article was to influence both British and American public opinion. Perhaps that is the job which Burgess and Maclean hoid in Moscow, It is astonishing that no one among the forpign tolrespondents and diplomats in Moscow recogrfized vA identified Burgess and Maclean during their Gtay re, Cepsright, 1956, King Veatetes Brnaivate, Ina. Wash. Post and Times Herald and that is why it js surprising that the United States Wash. News has not got around to doing so.” | Wash. Star In a word, this man, a Russian agent, who skipped - } ~f” N. Y. Herald out of his own country while under investigation and «, pre ; Tribune who now fis in Moscow in the employ of the Russian “~ N.Y. Mirror Foreign Office, wrote a speech which actually describes . N. Y. Daily News British policy and which denounces (“it is surprising”) rei oA tt Dale W ” American policy. He does not say when he wrote that pf OTE ee Daily Worker speech but Burgess was employed in the British Foreign . ’ ~owp The Worker Office during the years 1944 to 1961 and therefore he a APR 31 1956 ew Leader couid not have been without knowledge of the Korean wr om J hh ee le, 8g ne War which took so many American lives. - Could it have been Bevin or Morrison for whom the speech was written? : . st ot Blames China Lobby _. _ ety v7 ft. Date —APR-1-6 S56 - — ees he Washington Post-Times H rald e met in Washington American officials spo. his morning, 4/ 16/ 56, carried this agrded with him about Red China. He does not my _ - rtiele with the agnanting -fanda... whg they were. He atiributes the American fallurejto ‘ZL ty ee renee SNe AGE EIOU OF TNE Last ‘ ina Lobby, of which two paragraphs and the last sentence Alfre is ht e proprietor, although _ hough ______—_—iof the third paragraph from the end. - -