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~Inwhis cdlumn yesterday, which appeared in suc! Herald Tribune and the, newspapers as the New York Washington Star, he said thig:— . “The Soviets play their . chess game well ndoubtedly. Sentiment tney are, being guided | bY)“ yes." he sald, ever since {He a Maclean, the British Russians have heen exchanging iplomat. prisoners and talking about gend- > Maclean, alter serving a long ing prisoners back. they, have | cime et Une British Embassy in rewlised how sentimental we are iWashington, was assigned to take about the return, of a few people Thame Sof _ the, all - important who have been sick and wounded. name can Desk’ in the London "That is nother exainple of} voreign ‘Office through which all confidential cables flowed dally. “when he disappeared behind the Iron Curtain the then Secre- ‘ary of State, Mr, Dean Acheson, exclaimed : 'My God, he knew everything |" “What Maclean knows basically s the weakness and vulnerability Mt the allied position on the uplomatic side. particularly ine Vituation in Britain) where a Ledge has been successfully driven yerween the Washington and uondon viewpoints.” Atlantic call From the Daily Express News Analysis Bureau in London J ‘led Mr, Lawrence in Washing- vv and over the Transatlantic dlephone invited him to expand nis Views, Mr. Lawrence said “Tne publication of Presidén’ Eisen- ower's speech in Pravda—an unusual departure and a clever one—indicales that an | Anglo: Saxon mind is in, Moscow advising on propaganda. “That would be someone who new that the publication of the ‘neech would appeal to Western ahons of ‘fair play '—notions ich Russia hes h.therto gnored,” Mr. Lawrence was asked ether he thought any other kamples of recent Russian propa~ nda could be linked with & vesterner's advice. alveoli. how they have: suddenly seen out, vulnerabilities on the propaganda le. ‘Mr. Lawrence _was asked: “ Why do you suspect Donald Maclean at work in Moscow rather than Guy Burgess ?”” He replied : “ Maclean was head of the ican in the British Foreign Office and would lunderstand exactly how the [Western mind reacts. “He would know more about our diplomatic relations anyone else. “Every recent move the, Russians have made is the kind of move an Angto-Saxon would make: if he were sitting in Moscow.” Pointers I then turned to earlier reports which could bear out Mr. Lawrence's view ‘— 1 Last December came @ report) that Maclean and Burgess were working in Moscow on an English - language propaganda smagazine called News. ‘yy Then came a report that the 4 diplomats) were preparing ropaganda leaflets for dropping hind the allied lines in Korea. 3 Mr. Cyril Connolly wrote of Maclean in his book “The Missing Diplomats": "One day towards the end of 1950 Donald{ invited me to Juncheon and talked: at lengih about the war in Korea. “His argument was that whal —“Wiaticred most jn the world was were] | people. The Koreans people. . . . Ib was essential at ail costs 10 stop the war and get tem esyablished as people a ,000 REWARD, RENEWED TODAY akties (DIPLOMATS * £1,000 REWARD —the Daily reward | Express offer, June 30, 1951. pPeoxare. MACLEAN and Guy Burgess landed from a Channel steamer at St. Malo on May 26, 1951, ‘They took a taxi to Rennes, a town in Brittany—aad vanished. A month later the Daily Express offered £1,000 reward, It was in these terms :— «The Daily Express offers a reward of £1,000 for informa- tion that will establish the whereabouts of the disappear- ing diplomats Donald Duart Maclean and Guy Francis de Moncy Burgess. “This reward will be paid to any person who sends to the Daily Express definite evidence that wilt lead to the solution of the most puzzling mystery in recent years. AML xuch Information wil be carefully sifted and passed on to the. security authorities— MLS. Scotland Yard Special Branch, and Foreign Office police—for investigation.” In the light of all the dis- turbing reports of the activities of the missing diplomats, the Daily Express renews that pa oftes-today?