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& NY WFO ening "These were the men who took the boat at St. Malo. They had known, each other casually for years; anc in London; last month, they renewed the acquaintanceship. There were some who had beer wondering, this spring, whether McLean's recovery from his mental jliness was as comleteas it was supposed to bee He Seemed low ar, spirit. On april 2; he aade a scene in a Soho - night club when be became involvec in an argument with ea newa~ Paperman. The maragenert asked him to leave. "But there was no hint; certainly, cf what was te comee He hac bought a deavtiful. old 12-room house at Hatsfield, near London. He and his wife were Living there quietiy, she was expecting her thiré child. The two little boys had the measles. May 25 was his birthday. He left the house as usual, but never showed up at the office. "Assuming that Burgess anc Mclean have gone; or are trying to go; behind the iron curtain, those who know the two men re- main baffled by the personality contradictions involved in the cases Burgess; for instance, is considerec much the more likely of the two to have been somehow involved in an attenpt to aid Russia. He was disgusted with his life ~ he had no family ties to bind him - ani he might have had some sympathy for what he thought was the Krezlin's cause. His politics were leftish. UcLean, on the other hand, never gave the slightest indication of pro<“ommumst tendencies. "But Burgess; it is felt, was a type of man wholly incapsble of organizing and carrying through a disappearing act of the sort that has been accomplisned here. ‘'He had, says a friend, tconsiderable difficulty in getting from Point A to Point B in the normal course of things.' Mclean; it is true, had the imagination and daring to effect the escapee His friends, how- ever, find it impossible te believe that he has been the leader in such e plote "There is general agreement that if Mclean and Burgess really have gone over to the Communists, their aim is somehow to try to produce peace, rather than to help Russia against the West. As a British diplomat here sums it up: ‘At worst, this thing is certainly more Hess than Hiss.? "Last week, in a London hospitel, Mes. McLean gave birth te an eight-pound daughter. She too will be celled Melinda. The hope arose that =~ if Donald McLean still is roaming the free world sunewhere = the news would bring him to his senses, and back to England.”