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° She-cave ‘the appearance of* being “distraught® and “mystified rwtterher’ “husband faded from sight! ‘and band-} ‘ed ‘British ,government agents com, * munications purporting to be trom! ; MacLean. She spoke to friends of her, ‘intention to Giyores the taissing bus ; band. © : Mrs, MacLean apparently’ was not! :/kept under strict surveillance by the! ‘British government. She. was permit.” ‘ted’ to travel freely, even to Geneva ‘ from Which. - Point she’ started: her. ‘by association’ apparently ig an | unthinkable theory. from the British ‘point, of view.- But, read what Petrov’ . Writes: “My belief is that" MacLean told >his wifé of hig destination before’ he’ ‘left, but I cannot-be sure of this, At any rate, she participated fully at a -later stage in‘(her) escape.plan.”” yj And s0 the one person‘ who./ « might-have held the key to a. gteat mystery was permitted’ to” “slip through the fingers of the i? British security system—if i 5 The case an Burgess and. MacTcan proves-~as did the Hiss incident’ and ; others of its type in ‘America—that: . eternal igilance is essential to na. , tional security in this: era-of a grea f ideological siruggle.: The difficul-. i-ties of keeping a nation’s guard upd , Without treading on individual righta : “and liberties, : “are frightful,” indeed, . !’ But the ‘dangers, in lax, security fmust be" admitted in the light of’ pevents which -show clearly the dam- :age that can~ result. from, following » the advice from; the. left. ar ye