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HOSE brains are behind the Big De-freeze wilh Sovict Russia? ; The skilful talk and friendly gesiures of Soviet Statesmen at Geneva, the long) series of conciliatory metides that paved their way]there, sugzest that an expgrt backroom team is Biving close advice to the Kremlin on how to eofien the West, It is certainiy not Molotov and Gromvko, Who-r technique has lageed a lithie behind the others. Ii is improbable that lesser Soviet bureaucrats have produced the master Metiiod that transforms Russians we meet from sullen automatons ‘into beaming buddies. indred it cannot be a Rugsian at all: for som Tecqnt Sovict strokes display an §ncanuy grasp of Wester reaqtions. Whoever it is. he a d#mon for psychology. H knows us almust too well. men of friendship | of the vanished diplomats, and Maclean | Burgess i] | by JAN i BELIEVE IT —* k when = two i credited British Forelen Olfies men decamped pehjud the Fran Curtain, 1 strongly resisted the idea that they woud phy 4 further role in Sovict policy. Two years apo. when J heard this theory again frum a shrewd observer, T was still reluctant ta believe tt. But 1 belleve it now, I believe that) much of this extraordinary change -of - face by Russia’s Iraders that amazes and delights the British and American public {gs the seeret work of Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess. I do not Bugecs hat OUR years BURR st t lav Macittan and Burerss ‘have changed SaQiiet aneed. they suddpbniy became immensely useful. i ‘| DETECT the hand of tw in Russias new sho .. the han COLVIN | | think they are aeting ks rompters. They hafe ifitiated the Russian mid ifto the mysteries of tke Western) mind—-an almost interplanetary feat —.mnd taught them how to keep “fhe ball in play” with r pidity that Js beginning t lqive — the West rathe breathless, [