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2 ALESSUILS wiptor y ’ ‘There will be great relf-- & _! 0 missing British dipjomats, 1ald Di sean and Sut E. D, Burgess, may not haye « iron Curtain or may have had contact with ey Communist sources on the continent cannot Y he-riled ont entirely, but a dispatch from +! * dence | in British security. Precautions «+ Paris, indicates that they sent reassuring & cables to their families from there within | i the last two days.’ The presumption is, as 7 one acquaintance put it, that. they merely“! ent off on a prolonged toot.) ~~ If this should prove to be the case, how- ‘ever, it still would not relieve the Foreign <! Office of criticism. Both men are known to}. ‘eS be unstable—Burgess, notoriously—yet they] have been left in positlons of authority ' Gwith> access to important documents, < MacLean, head of the American depart-; ment in the Foreign’ Office, has been™ privy to’ all major Anglo-American diplo-~ matic secrets, yet he suffered a “nervous breakdown” in somewhat questionable- clr- * cumstances in Cairo a year or so ago. Burgess, a considerably ‘ more junior , official, is reported to have Information on.* : | the Japanese peace treaty, yet his fitness < has Jong been questioned even by his’ cold leagues: “He was second. secretary of the British Embdsy here, but was recalled toy _ England for cause—the ‘cause being his! “arrest for speeding three times in.a single , ‘day. His political aympathion are sald to be considerably to the deft, ) “The fact” that” two! officials: of kn ! dubiety were retained in positions of re“ | sponsibility raises an issue as to the validity © I of British screening procedures. Nowadays. », the sharing ‘ of intelligence information. between / Great. Britain and“ the United y States, wo are told here, is satisfactory, but'} some suspicion remains that the British gov<* ernment {g reluctant to-act on the informa-"{ -fion available to- it. There ~have’ been “enough unhappy: incidents—the “Klaus 4 ‘Fuchs - 1 CASO, dhe appointment of John’; with a record of extreme leftist, a8 War Minister, the disappearance” corvo—to throw the of Po * securi® precautions and if British ‘authorities,. Ce) i, if ie they’ are we ji L 7 ""Doubtiess” te “peal poled" of. crust Cleeg/ by routine security check vin a Rosenberg and Greenglass aint Nichols. a country. “Nonetheless, such checks ought * Rosen . ] at least to indicate what persons are pos aible security risks. The United States, which has puraued an extremely cautious $ Policy in this matter, has a right to expect 3 Tre Harbo Beth oa a havo Room. Neoase. andy that the British government will also pay, attention to the danger—not through pub-’ lic exposure, but through quiet but firm 5 action in cases where there’ ix reason actlon,: Mr. Attlee’s ‘ ‘government’ ought’ “to” be reminded that at this: touchy: point: Anglo-American relations lack of ‘confi merely. feeds hysteria here.” 2 peg mili ee woe paw gett cB ne iva wp 91 guN 23. Bile acy oath ae PER FOIA NUE gg iastse? 32 _—_ Page _—_— Timeg-Herald Wash. Post ay Wash. News Wash. Star N.Y. Mirror —— ? N. Y. Compass___.. CW ge Date JUN 8 1951