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THe DOWNF. . HROUGH th maze of Foreig : Office bunglin: ang spy-yarn adventurin: that characterise the Bur- ess and Maclean case, the question keeps recurring : «Why earth did Donald _Duart’ Maclean, a young iman of much achievement “and greater promise, be- come a traitor ? The answer is important to Britain's future security. The answer lies in one simple fact: Maclean Was a mem- ; ber of his generation. } . Some have called its genera. Sfon of traitors. For it ix surely, not just, coincidence | that Maclean, Burgess, Fuchs, Nunn cy, Alger Hiss, and Ponte- 3, were all of much phe achleved he ‘| ra of nett higher education he early nineteen-thirtiel : . ail ‘folicwed roughly the xoad to dammation, 3 MACLEAN VASE G {Bufile 100-37h163) DAILY. L SEPTELBER 26, 1955 LONDON, ENGLAND ° "yy G4 ocr 13968 LL OF DONALD HY DI TAKE THE | - SPY ROAD? i4 The answer lies in a nation’s past, with a warning for today’s generation fy Concluding HOW SAFE I BRITAIN? tus look gt the road take Maclean, He was the thir aol by gbikt of Sir Donala Mi paieifagutshed Liberal pal andjCabinet Minister, is childhood was comfort) | able and happy, He emerg: into rae with Sie! cation, and in- fleet" With ail thig he ‘went to Trinity College, Cambridye, ; and became & Com: Suni The date is hnportant. The town and men of Jarrow were crumbling into the idleness of |, uhe doje. National Socialism was beginning to show {ts true, ‘black | solour, ~ Of this time and of Maclean's generation, Alistair ke DAs written < Sar their bak was the tramo of Fascism. Inftront and all around them the long struggle “wil Be resston, DUALS ¢ T OR BOLT. gun a8 jb Fer Fol wl, | Better? on the Se oN Macteay | HE ‘An ‘answer Seinen ‘HE Macleans “ 4 riod either Peale, or chose and terrible of the ‘Stalinist reane in Russia. They saw fb as the only honest and effective oppor ent to Hitler and Mussolini. Litvinoft spoke for them at the League of Nations, The Inter national Brigade became the focus of their fighting passions fy the brave tragedy of the Spanish War. ‘The Macicans also. Lista ba munism as the answer to papitalism that was visinly Tait {ng around them—in the dole ueues and the bread ines, in arrow and ihe Rhondde, They seized on it as the true Socialist ospel. that | the | bumbling msay MacDonald and the wrangling Labour Party were incanable of practising. In any : "ease, what was the diference n Sir Stafford Cripps oa i fcaly campaigned 7 itty front between Se t i and Commenisn ? 0 Maclean and many otper of his generation became Cpm- _unlats. Bub that answers only. RA ae Qounted > 126 QCT 12 1955 eA a HOT RECORDED = ee a LO Sa eee te .