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oe C SORDID STORY \\, --—~ _jUY’ BURGESS and Donald MacLean now have filled in the missing chapters | f their squalid past and boastfully an- ' ounced intengighs to continue on the path tengi of treason. i The diplomaftraitors finally emerged rom five years of mystery in Moscow. "hey are as arrogant as ever. Whether : heir personal lives—highlighted in the = vast by drunken brawls and homosexuality —remain as sordid is a problem for their Soviet masters. The unapswered question is how the ritish Foreign Office tolerated these two oung men when they themselves never ‘sid their pro-Soviet views, and when their " \ersonal- behavior in London, Paris, Cairo ind Washington was a public scandal, ~ The post-mortem on this case already has reverberated in many capitals—espe- : sially here in Washington. Only last week : Gen. MacArthur again suggested that the ommunists in Korea probably got their formation of his military plans and even f higher American policy decisions thru ir. Burgess, then serving in the British * Embassy in Washington, and Mr. MacLean, * head of the American desk in the Foreign Office in London, Treason is a crime that revolts honorable men everywhere. ..Americans will sympa- thize with Britishers who believe such . despicable characters should hang from a gallows. These two are beyond the reach of Brit- : ish law, unfortunately. There is, however, ‘a punishment Britain with our help can give them—deny them success in their efforts to divide and weaken the West. This sudden surfacing of Messrs. Burgess and MacLean has a major objective—to : stir up pla British-American difficulties ry, to keep-us agitated about the past~ ~~ while communism moves into the Tuture, . PER oor at midnight. Tele. Room Holloman Gandy “fe Cer) WW Messrs. Burgess and MacLean already. ‘contributed to British-Ameré is- * agreements. Are the British and Amer- fcans to let them continue to do so? Are we to reward them with more successes? The past cannot be forgotten and should not. It is filled with lessons. But only the communist conspiracy will profit jf recrim- inations are permitted to poison the future. About the only way the West can con- tribute to ultimate punishment of Messrs. 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 ig likely to tire of these men and find them useless, When the Kremlin is thru with a man the punishment is usually quick and ruth. ss. Speed the day when the Kremii wards these men with a knock on th —_—+_ Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News £6 . ¢ Wash, Star ——____. N. Y. Herald —____ Tribune N.Y. Mirror N. Y. Daily News —— Daily Worker — 7a The Worker New Leader — DELETED COPY SENT C.B fine Dewelef § ——rerrriare— ares late == A tv v0 BY LETTER JUN 22 4975 FOIA REQUESE 3 a QUEST, meats re