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half the question. It would be abdpurd to adopt ths view, spvalent in América, that gi - munists kre spies. Indegi. fof the Russian spy network ony the best, inteliectually pr prOfessionally. are good enough. did Maclean ire Communist to mMUNist agent? Why did he follow this “profession down through the years the Disckest treachery ? Promising man pli ai GAIN the character and background of Maclean himself seems to make the 4 Rreater, As 50 many others did. he might well have outgrown Communism, like one outgrows the spotty face of adotescerice. Suocess might have hastened the process. For. have ne doubt aboul it, Maclean was not just a | promising diplomat. He wus the promising man of his time. His. progress in the Poreign Service’ was exceptional, At the vey ~-epst ao “ambassadorshio $n * ashington or Paris lay ahe: Vamay tever know the exget phriod and scope of Maclead’s epoioyment in the Russian ret. Service, What we do‘ know ix that Maclean either had na Inclination or no oppor- tunity abandon that em: ployment and chase instead the sbandonment of his country, ‘The fact is that Communist « agents have Httle opportunity to change their minds. Onee Fectuited they are ruthlessly | retained In their new loyalty. Tt js virtually certain that Maclean was paid for the nfor- mation Re handed over fo the Ruaslans. . From the case histories of Fuchy and Nunn May we kaow the Communist spyniasiers are punetiiiogs on this point -they know that once the agents has received monty. however | email. for services rendered, he ig gutomatically suscaptible to . Ddiademail. Top ts 8 distasteful subject, ulgit is important to en un- fanding ot Macleans raity to the Communist gaupe th mention thet he was “als. ig intermittently, a homosexujl. Hpmosexuailiy above everythigg e}e is the blackmualler's favoi HE tev. se bh ogay Jarrow ty Drink problem aD austert and quiet man, occa- sionaity too! ‘ Gidinnty woos gE tn extra nTgess drank to exces: many years. And “Maclean? ‘The earliest letters of Melinda's marrage describe his” drinks pe ores ia Paris, His drink~ ri though controled “8S P*AYY: But im Cairo, and leter tn London, 3t got completely out of hand. In his last few months at the Foreign Office he usually had @ bottie of whisky in his “ a nip from jt w: often necessary to “set hi siraight” for” the morning This sort of drinking certain! bespeaks the pressures of co: of science | perhaps those of black-": mail; and perhaps those of - fear For fear, too, ls & weapon of the Communist ‘spymaster, “| ;e Donald Duart Maclean's i fe hus not been a happy one..7 e may believe with dence that the youth of ou nigs adoles: eliets x thi retore. will not . bootnife : hondda miner is of hhe National Goal Soane { cajolery; depression has uy Fe@piaced by booming prosperty aga over-full employment. university student, spreading his politica! wings to- yy. 5€e8 Bround h of tiving and Gove: Gn the whole, works preity well. Over the past ten years be aise should have seen sufficient | evidence of the true character of international Communism to avoid the pitfalls stumbled {nto | by Maclean and his fellows, ‘The generation of traitors was @ pecudar and. one may hone, B unique product of an anbagny period of ime, In this fact les fome reason for confidence in Britain's future security. - ‘There 1s need for just one eautionsry note, It is possibhe that @ combination of fashion able anu-Americanism and the Kremlin's present mood of sweet. reasonableness could produce alyiiar delusions among today's eeferation, "9 them, the relentless ampl- Hin and irrevocable discipline of international. Communi ust be made crystal clear,