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15 serene Gnidia teeerre rete rns E PERNT SECT rTM SONY At wmenee ene Ae Veig (abeee~oo) C a C White-Plumed Traitors AD : “Whe Rremlin, after having repeatedly denied any knowledge of their where- abouts has at last Ufted the curtain on the dismal figures of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, The act cbnfirms what has béeh“long suspected—namely, that these two former officials of the British Foreign Office have been in Russia ever since their, electrifying disappearance from England almost five years ago. And in the meantime, as traitors with marked Peychopathic tendencies, they undoubt- dly have been rendering good service to the Soviets in the propaganda and other fields. . : . Of course, this is not the way Burgess and Maclean measure’ themselves. In their own opinion, as set forth in their statement at Saturday's “press confer- ence” in Moscow, 'they are or the side. of the angels. Although they were Com- : munists as far back as their student days” - at Cambridge, they say they neither are nor have been Soviet spies. On the con- trary, they are’ upright, honorable and. patriotic gentlemen dedicated to the, cause of peace, and they have defected” merely because the Kremlin's policy ts “right” and because they are ever. 50 anxious to promote mutual understand- ing between East and West. That, they claim, is what explains their flight from England. Both of them—especially Maclean-~were privy at one time to some pretty important Anglo-American secrets (including probably a few bearing upon the Korean war), but if they betrayed any of them, they did so only for, the noble purpose of serving the noble ob- jectives of\the USSR. In short, they. have been sort of Ike white-plumed knights fighting in shining armor for a better and happier world against a “small but powerful” group of evil’ warmongers in Britain and the United States—espe- cially the United States, whose Far Eastern and European policies are com- pounded of nothing but “‘senselessness . and danger.” we - . ,’ Traitors have never been kinder to. themselves than have these two shabby characters. From reading their state-.. ment, one would hardly suppose that Burgess and Maclean—although said to be gifted with superior minds—have neurotic twists that have led them not only to’ treason but to the depths of personal moral squalor. Yet, although . they abundantly deserve the world's con- tempt, the Kremlin can be counted upon to continue making good use of them. - That in itself .is.a rather’ instructive , commentary on the Soviet’ way of doing = wR. iis ro? Wash, Post and Times Herald Wash, News Wash. Star 4” N.Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Mirror N. Y. Daily News —— Daily Worker The Worker New Leader 5, FERS 3 156 D ate ——