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n at ‘By JOHN O'DONNELL =‘: The best whispered thriller in Washington in many a year ts the story of what reportedly hap! pened to the two British diplomats’ who vanished loaded down with: the top secret atom bomb informa-| ition that Pal Joey in the Kremlin ating to get, | The current yarn is that either’ British information agents or our! own American intelligence oper- ators knew the plan of tne: boys’ jin advance, traiied them when: they slipped away from London and then—in. the best tradition of the movies—quietly ellaurated both Ae elther had a chince! to giv their secrets to Rubian, agents behind the Iron Curtagh, <1 The ‘tory is that we or the British, br both working together, caught up with the two traitors. on the French-Italtan Riviera: border in a modest’ hotel room, shot them both thru the head and then effectively disposed. of the bodies, 4 At least {t sounds plausible,: more so perhaps than does that! Peculiar Christmas eve assassina- lon of France's Adm, Darian, at Algiers in 1942 after the French Raval commander had made his desl with Gen, Eisenhower and then complained that. the Ameri-|; cans were about to toss him aside |; “like a leman that had ~ been], Squeezed dry.” ope 1 Darlan was murdered by 6 French boy who was shot within six hours after the admiral’s death. Politicaliy, the Darlan mur- der paid -off, and got Franklin D. Re velt off an embarrassing spot hen inside starystxs 270, been told. The case of the Miss. ing British diplomats remains top line news. wos i 1 42 SEP 261951 r Ladd. Clegg. Glavin. Nichols Rosen. ‘Tracy. Harbo_~ Alden Belmont. Laughlia Mohr. Tele. Room___ Noase. Gandy. 1 wo RUE OS Page wee Times-Herald of pate. Wash. Post’ Wash. News Wash. Star ___ in. ~ pe 37S Tw. Mirror ___ NOT RECORDEQ | Y. Compass.