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: i i DATE: ¥ _¢ THE PHILADELPHIA WN QUIRER Pith ave Ps, Ph COLUMN: 22. epmtion. Fatah zs Tah do Fork The Case of the Missing Story First, we had the two missing British dip] rats, "MacLean and Burgess. Despite vagu ficial denials it is generally believed they hauled a tidy lot of top Allied secrets to Mos- cow. But—no one knows. Despite Scotland Yard and the French Surete, it is still a mystery. Then we had the matter of MacLean’s misst ing wife. Vacationing on the Rivicra, she “disappeared” for several days. Then, as quietly, she returned. For a day it was an- other mystery. Now? Well, we have yet to see any quote from Mrs. MacLean, at any time. Whether she met her husband secretly, as some say—no one knows. Score another zero for Scotland Yard and the Surete. Now comes the case of the missing storg. he Labor Party’s Londovi Daily Herald pub- Ifshed a story based on alleged Secret Service ihformation, that the two missing diplomats ad been found. After strangely keeping silent for hours, the British Foreign Office announces there is no truth in the report. Everybody likes a mystery, and this trick of making three mysteries out of one would be good fun—if the matter were not so seri- ous. Over here, we suspect in Britain too, there is widespread fecling that the public has not been told “the half of it.” All British officials will say is that agents are hunting the diplomats. And all we need now is for the agents to disappear, too. For awhile there was some argument ove: hether Sherlock Holmes was really dead, o1 #till Keeping bees in Sussex at an advance ee, From the looks of things we would sa; that he at least has left England. ie pLanaginy + Oiyer 2 O Vur- / : ts ~