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Pte gn nena teow did Stor es 001 i. of their squalid past and boastfully an- nounced intentions to continue on the, path of treason." io # from five years of mystery in Moscow. - \ They are as arrogant as ever. Whether £ -their personal lives—highlighted in the ‘~ & past by drunken brawls and homosex- {for their Soviet masters. The unanswered question is how the “British foreign office tolerated these £ two young men when they themselves = never hid their pro-Soviet views, and: - + when their personal behavior in Lon-* ;-don, Paris, Cairo and Washington was a £. public scandal. . : <The” post-mortem -on this case al- ready has reverberated in many capitals :-/-—-especially in Washington. Only last , f week Gen, MacArthur again suggested 7 that the Communists in Korea probably . got their information of his military plans and even of higher American policy decisions through Burgess, then - . \ serving in the British Embassy in Wash- . - ican desk in the foreign office in Lon- ‘Treason is a crime that revolts hon- ° sympathize with Britishers who believe such despicable characters should hang from a gallows. . . “—Tirese two are beyond the reach of { Story.of Burgess & MacLeary * 8 and. Donald “MacLean -" ave filled in the missing chapters - . ! West. ~ : . i The diplomat-traitors finallyemerged _ This sudden surfacing of Burgess ‘© uality—remain as sordid is a.problem: _ ington, and-MacLean, head of the Amer- . » don. os orable men everywhere. Americans will ** Cs — 7, Mr. Mohr_. Mr. Parsons... ' Mr. Rosen. Mr, Tamm. | at British “law, unfortunately. There is, 4 however, a punishment Britain with our | help can give them—deny them success ° in eir efforts to divide and weaken the, * and MacLean has a major objective—to < stir up old British-American difficulties .. +... to keep us agitated about the past ;; phile Communism moves into the fu- Burgess and MacLean already have « - contributed to British-American dis- . ze? agreements, Are the British and Amer-:! gp icans to let them continue to do so? ; 7 4 Are we to reward them with more suc- 5 cesses? ~ 4 Lo The’ past .cannot be forgotten and + should not, It is filled with lessons. But * only the Communist conspiracy will . profit if recriminations are permitted to poison the future. ~ 7 sos About the only way the West can * contribute to ultimate punishment of « Burgess and MacLean is to prove them : wrong. If.the Western alliance does not: fall apart— . If it. gets stronger—and if the * Burgess-MacLean projects to divide and : weaken the West fail, the Kremlin is _ likely to tire of these men and find them ° useless. ~- When the Kremlin is through with | a man the punishment is usually quick -; and ruthless. Speed the day when the © Kremlin rewards these men. with a knock on the door at midnight —_. SAN FRANCISCO NEWS SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF, February 13, 1956 Page 11,_ eee SEARCHED —_INDEXED.___.4 FFF 1956 FBI - SAN FRANCISC ‘0 “ ae . + —_ . —— pone henekel grep cnev se" cb TS DELETE! ‘ py iit Jun 22 wwi8 PER FUIA Ke wey a 7.