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OS Breakdown year ago® °° ™ ends and colleagues of MacLean aasure me that anyt - > of the sort would be entirely allen to his character and 1 whole record, The suggestion that‘elther has highly secrpt information or had sccess to top-secret ‘documenta “of tie I yrastest value to a certain forelen Power” is a filght of fancy.4 = MACLEAN, as acting head of the Foreign OffceTAmeri- aj -fcan Department, Woujd handle many confidential papers, ~~ %, \but hardly those of atop secret character effecting ques~ a 7 Bote {Hons of Defence and Security. My of gt sg #8” BURGESS, who returned & few weeks ago from the Washington Embassy, was not actually employed at the i . time of his disappearance. Ne was on leave.’ But like i . 3% MacLean he is now “absent without leave.” "The regulations are that any official on leave must keep the: Foreign Office informed of his whereabouts, That is why, ar ‘the Foreign Office announced yesterday, both men are sie pended as from June 1—seven days after they vanished. i he statement also nated that “MacLean had a breakdown : Fslvear agoowing to overstrain but was believed to have fully: _ é répovered.” It came while he wag at the Cairo Embassy. Buti a _ hd was passed as completely At for work again several months vo ago. ° : aaron iin : ‘MacLean’s younger brother, Alan MacLean, was called home from New York on May 30. He is an aide to Bir Gladwyn Jebb, | permanent British delegate to the United Nations. The; reason of his recall was given as “private family mat! Oh > 3 Went-on. birthday. Went-on. birthday | [7 was his 38th birthday when tall, scholarly Donald % . Duart MacLean walked out of his ld-roomed home in the little. Kent village of Tatsfield without saying & word of his plans to his American-born wife Melinda as rs. MacLean expects her third baby next week. * m after Mr, MacLean’s dis- apiearance his sons, Fergus, 7, and David, 8 fell i with measies ‘Yesterday, Mrs, MacLean. who had nursed Her husbsnd beck to health after bis breakdown, was joined by her mother from Paris ‘to help Jook after-the ohildren. “She bad a phone talk with her father” Mr. Francis Marling, in Chicago and expressed ihe view that her husband has had a recur~ rence of the breakdown, Like her father, she does not believe he has “disappeared . behind ¥ the < tron Curtain.” = te MacLean, widow of Sir Donad MacLean, Liberal Party leader and wae | Minister of Education in 1931, was sald yesterday to be “vastly dis- iressed and confined to bed,” at tha, village three weeks ago. when he pratked the half-mile from his hore to the “jlocal,% the Olt Ship, “He usually kept very much to if, had one ar-two pints of * a villager Mr, MacLean'a mother, Lady |" she waved goodbye or.the two young sons he adored.” “Z ® into the bar with a tall man who might have been Mr. Burgess. the other missing Foreign Office offtial They chatted for a few minutes, then Ieft." * Seventeen years ago Mr. Macy Lean, an expert in Freneh apd German, graduated at Cambridge. A year {eter he edtered gihe Diplomatic Service’ aa a, Tpird Secretary. ~ Bince then he has deen popted to Paris, Washington and Catro, lseturning to London — isst, November. He became head of the American Department because of his vast knowledge of American affairs. His breakdown occurred 8 year ago, but sald a Foreign Office’ colicague yesterday, hie had Fe gained ali his strength at the time he disappeared’ 00 PP Guy PRancis DE, MONCY ye BURGESS,’ old -" Etgnian.. Cambridge: gtaduate, ex-B BC and? War. Office? many Hptore, 1 her Kensington fan an ip ‘ yillagera as a) student-like, almost |: . VAGETS 8 eens nat pen im || Does. the unexpected - . ¥ PPS STS Bo he ae I HO