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- BURGESS AGAIN? Czechs quit the world police From PERCY HOSKINS: Parls, Sunday HE Czechs today dropped out of ‘ Interpol—the 38-nation police crime-detection organisation. They gave no reason, but it ts believed they resent inquiries about Burgess and Maclean, the vanished Foreign Office men, who were last seen in Prague. “Naily 7 “onvon, muary 1,8 2 me DCMALE wi Es:tonice - 2 OBFICE 0: Wop ‘neLean, ct al Czechosiovakia was the last jor the Communist States in Interpol. Bulgaria and Rumania quit @ year ago. The Burgess-Macleun und Ponte- corvo affairs were regarded in the| West as political rather than’ criminal matters. 50 that. Interpol was not much concerned bunt for the men. US. TO REJOIN? But considerable pressure was. used through other channels in an effort to get Czech co operation in the Snaulries. Resignation of the last Rea State opens the way for America to rejoin this police network which ‘spreads its ron trapping ‘across every, cou ‘this side of the Iron urtain. Mr. J. Edgar Hoover. “entet oO the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion, withdrew his country’s sup- of Czech ‘fission's statute, which barre) clion against poittical offende: { as WOT RECORDED 136 MAR 17 194.