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pe CLEA URGES: ww FROM PAGE :ONE come by an imperialist war or by a Communist revolution, one was as bad as another. The only ultimate solution was the victory of the | propertyiess classes. ® ' ‘Thus Maciean, on the verge of iis 19th birthday. was already itaking @ rebellious attitude ‘towards his own. Class. “Pwo years later he was right on inne Patty Line. For Granta, on iMarch 7, 1834, published this letter from him :— ‘ast term an unsuccessiul altempt was made by the authorities to ban a Free Speech meeting, and Anti-War articles in two’ college maga- zines were censored, _ BURGESS Ii is runigured, tbat cases of In Eton dress. ipgltical discrimination have dfeurred at the Appointments | strong case for immediate Bard. student action. tm [certain colleges economic \rhe Federation of | Studel ‘efpioitation of tne student nas | béen introduced, ‘Phere is reactionary and, value- jess teaching in every faculty. Phere is, in fact, an irresistibly Societies, of which the Cam] bridge | University ‘Socialis Sociéty Js a section, made general formulation of studen! lemands and put them for ward alongside the workers’ demands at the National Gon- Action "The National Congress of Action at Bermondsey in 1934 was a Com-/ miunist-inspired conference which! adopted Communist- inspired slogaus. "Now Maclean gave the impres- sion in those days of @ man who would quietly further bis causc,| Not so Burgess. He roiled Communism round hi tongue and spouted it at anybody . who would listen. DRINK... He goaded his friends with pictures of the wrath to eqme) when be and Mr. Harry Poflitt’ nad their way, But, with enofgh hiquor, he would concede dispepsa- tions to a favoured few. Burgess and a friend sometimes stayed with a woman novelist.| ‘The friend told her that Burgess) had confided to him this fact:! he was net only a member of the! Communist Party bul 2 secret) agent. And Burgess had invited his friend ta Join the work. You when war came where did Burgess g07 Right into that) department of the War Office which is known as M.1.6, i He had one secret abopit imself too. And he managpd prevent it becoming a State ecret. He held a Communist arty card. : fe kept that secret sa well that the Foreign Office could admit yesterday that there Was no Suspicion of him until a month before he vanished. . I’m shocked, | says M.P. Me Ww. J. TAYLOR, Tory EMP. for Bradford North, Said at Bradford last night aout the Maclean-Burgess ' case i Tam a little shocked that information of this kind and of this umportance should be given Sut by some obscure spokesman at tite Foreign Office on a Sunday afternoon when | Patlia- ment is in. recess. That is com: pletely against the principle that the Executive shouid not, withhold essential. iofarmation from the Commons. “Perhaps it is a good thing that Parliament {s not sitting. because, Jam sure there would be a great deal of criticism of the way this) Hbusmess has been handled. {ju ne new responsible Migisier will page to give Parhament He told a friend he was con- gerned with the flow of secret information througn Swiss channels. He was in close contact wth |the Political Warfare Executivelat, | secret eadyuattels in Buckigs- hamshire. ie became an expert. on sagotage, propaganda, spyiqg. ... DRINK During this _period—on Septem- ber 10, 1940—Burgess appeared at’ Mariboroug! et_court accused| of driving @ Wart Office car while under the influence of drink. It was stated that he was) “doing rather confidential work" and tne case was dismissed on payment, of costs. ; Qn drove Burgess—until he get ingde the Foreign Office itself. Or October 1, 1947. aciean had been nicely settled gppre, Jor 32, years, and’ was bY s time sifting out Slave secrets ead of chancery in Washing- stqry.” “ have no. doubt. that, | full