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ro alli e ¢ WBargess was describe? today as te good cinversationalist - when he wanted to be ~ am slightly bookish, although not aridly academict, “He nade friends easily. He was 'rather good looking; short, with bleck wavy hair’. While in Weshinzton he lived at 1100 Nebraska Avermme, N-W. One of his favorite pasttimes, an acquaint- ance recelies, was to crive automotiles. The acquaintance remarked that 'he liked to be on the move'. “Burgess at one tine wes privete secretary to Hector McNeil who then was minister cf state for foreign affairs. Later he was a member of the Far Eastern Department of the Foreign Office with special interest in Chinese affairs. "ht his London club, the Refom Club, officials ssid they had not seen him for sone time. "People in London whe knew the two men said they apparently had mo pronounced political leaninge.® # The foliowing ervicle concerning MACLEAN and BURGESS appeared in "Washington Sunday Star Gated June 17, 1951, and was written by NEWBOLD NOYES JR: “The week-erd excursion boat, Felaise; bound from Southhampton to St. Malo in Brittam, was to sail at midnight. A few minutes before 4t cast off that Friday, May 25; the story goes, @ sports car tore up to the dock. The men jumped out; bags in hand. They tipped a dock attendant, told him to buy himself a drink and started up the gangplank. 'Rey!' shouted the porter. ‘What about the car?! "The two men had rented the car that afternoon for 10 days. "We'll be back Monday,' one called over his shoulder. "Donald Duart McLean and Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess were not back Monday. "As all the world knows, these British diplomats thereupon vanished utterly. Within a few days, they becane the objects of a continental manhunt as intensive; and fruitiess,as ever stagedo "4 St. Malo taxi driver said he drove then to Rennes, where he thought they caught a train for Paris. Since then, Kclean and Burgess have been reported in a dozen cities; on both sides of the iron curtsine Their relatives received cryptic cables - purportedly from McLean in Paris and Burgess in Rome = but the handwriting on the telegraph blanks was not theirs. The hottest lead came last Friday from Barcelona ~ > She fugitives were said.to have registered ina hote2? as Marshal} BcLean and Willis _JohA) Bargess. Barcelona had it they were back in France. But for all the tips, the combined security police of}the Western world cowad not find them. "With each paeeine day» the case fe! oeoes more securely estab~ lished as one of th er 4 mvetery stories the age. There seen to be plenty of theories; Detlef solid clues, ene. "The theory which has caused ald the exciteuent, of course, is thet McLean and burgess were skipping behind the iron curtain with Western secrets for the kremlin