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Q OO, : nomena ONY ‘The Right-to. Get Lost ©. By Max Lerner sxuncom' “The case of the two British | diplomatic strays show how deeply! we are enmeshed in’an age of mystery,. Whatever the cause of; their disappearance, the far-flung net of search is a sign of the: political jitters of our time. . The cloak and the Sater have sup, 1 Plantea the older, symbols on the. world’ fage oa 4 : . "My wife and I have ‘been spending pan at what fs probably; the busiest conversational gambit today—guessing what happened. to the two errant diplomats, Did they blunder into a Communist: trap, or were they kidnaped, or did they stumble upon something too important to the Russians? Will they be found gagged and, dead in a ditch?. Or will they crop yp in one of the Iron Curtain ‘ jsatellite capitals (Prague? Warsaw?) to denounce thelr dormer: diplomatic bosses as “warmongers?” - at i Where even those who ‘know the men closely are ‘baffled, one theory is as good or bad as "another. So here's the mb I choowe, ' to cuimb out on. ‘ I think the story is political, not personal. But I aoubt whether the two young men have gone over to the Russians, taking our secrets and codes with them, Judging from the statements by. G thelr frign Phen Spender and W. H. Auden, the politics of NALD CMecbean Cm ece may have been leftish 15 years ago but are not now. What is more likely is that.they planned a feat of diplomatic derring-do that would gain them the acclaim of their country and the plaudits of the Forelgn Office, but they may have fallen Into a trap and may turn up—if they ever do—as framed jSefendants In one of the] Iron Curtain spy trials. j . : on one score the story falls short ot what It could have been Suppose the two young men had not been British, but career men 4n the State Dept. Think of how perfectly the scandal would have n tlmed to the Acheson grilling before the Senate Committee.| Tagine the joy in the hearts of Sens, Brewster, Wiley, Bridges, a Cain'as they shot their curace-dipped | arrows into. the Sacre tary of State. fe - CR eraseat Eaten ee DELETED MY ST CLR, DBorelA . BY LET]. = JUN 22 i416 PER FOIA wepucus oe t7I84 he oa NOT RECORDED 132 WL 6 1951 ae hy pre rerrrrrr re e wrn eoe