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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 7
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-serious~.
Acheson’
® From Arthur’ Webb
- WASHINGTON, Thursday.—
It would be “a very seri-
ous matter "if the two missifg
“British Foreign Office officiqis
_ proved to have Russian sym-
~y ‘pathies, said Mr.Dean Achp-
son, Secretary of State, today.
"He was "questioned at the
+ Setjate MacArthur inquiry about
\Reys reports on the disappearance.
t ir. Acheson stated that he first
heard of the matter over the radio.
Senator’ Owen Brewster (Re
publican, Maine) remarked that’
‘Mr. MacLean was “believed to
have @ thorough knowledge of
jaecret Anglo-American exchanges
jon such subjects ag the North
_j Atlantic Pact, the Korean war
and the Japanese Peace Treaty.” -
Surprised"
5 {. Mr. Acheson agreed that if Mj;
; MacLean had had jurisdicti
y over relations with the United
+ } States, he would haye knowledge.
of the Foreign, Ministers’ discus-,
- j sions in Paris on Atlantic Pact)
‘problems. °"=:
At the British Embassy today, T
| was told that all the informations
: they had was from news agencies.;
All the officials expressed sur-!
prise, One suggestion was sl
Maclean and Burgeas might have
iste gone off to prance 2 On & apFee:
as;
ighthearted, and fond!
ae .
ment in the Ameri:
newspapers, but all o!
it print|news dispatches {ro1
s ‘London under faming headlines. 5
‘to Moscow."
be
F. ront’ page ©.
New York World Telegra:
has one-and-a-half -inch ni
agross alx columns: “ Two Bri
Diplomats Skip. Fear They re
Fled to Russia” t
Another headjine _followed:’
“Both know Anglo-U.S. war
secrets.” “Work on the Atlantic
Fact and steategy in Korea.”
The Hearst New York Journal
Afmerican uses the biggest- and
st sensational display:
lifes of enormous type across |
fypnt page reading: “Two
itish diplomats reported fleel:
‘French M5:
(direct hu i
From W. A. Jones £
, Paris, Thursday, ~- The
(Search for Burgess and
‘MacLean in France is being
directed from here by the.
‘DS T—Direction de Ia Surveil-
lance du_ Territoire, — the
French M15,
The French Ministry of Ee
Interior is keeping the DST
formed about tonight's march
through hundreds of thousands of
= sent from Paris yester-
ay.
They hope to be able to trace
the post office from which the two
men are sald to have wired to
their families,
1 St. Cloud search
A plain-clothes officer, supplied
‘with photographs and full per-
sonal details of the two men, has.
been posted on auy near the
Soviet Embassy.
Detectives went to Bt. Cloud, on;
the outskirts of Paris, late tonight.+
Burgess is believed to have friends |
there.
Inquiries: ‘tn the Montparnasse
and Montmartre districts yielded
nothing. Hotels off the-Place de_|
la Concorde and the Champs
sees are being visited by gity’
lice who are making a roomfby-
m check of the thousand? of J
ritish visitors here this wee! :
All air and sea ports are bping
watched.
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