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Maclean Touch in Soviet No By NICHOLAS CARROLL, The Sunday Times Diplomatic Correspondent MAY former Forelgn Office col- leagues in London of Burgess and Maclean have never wavered in their bellef that both men were somewhere behind the Iron Cur- tain, despite the many formal denials by Soviet officials, ‘Two weeks ago Mr. Khrushchev him- self snapped back a sharp denial when &, Western. journalist suggested that Mpclean was in Russia. second theory that has gained wide acfrptance in the Foreign Office was that thd greatly improved drafsing of Soviet Noles, letters from Russian leaders, and * Soviet announcements on important occasions during recent years, bore the stamp of Maclean's work. - . It was thought significant that within i @ 20-year treaty of friend- ht to bear a, offering in, ere also thoug! laclean imprint, win haif an hour of the first news from Moscow about the Burgess-Macican the Foreign Secretary, Selwyn ‘Lioyd, tel yroned’ the’ News Department of the Foreign Office. A spokesman afterwatds described the news as “an interesting developmen! NO SURPRISE IN . ’ WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Saturday. ‘The news of ithe reappearance in Moscow of Burgess and Maclean caused no surprise here, as all specu! tion in the last five years tended reflect the feeling that the two mn had fled to the Soviet Union. The St Interview, a few months of Maclean's disappearance , there was @ noticeable moderation in the-Depertment refused official commeAt abusive language of Soviet Notes to the ‘West. At the time, this was put down to a change in Soviet diplomatic tactics, ‘hut as the quality of the drafting con- tinued to improve former friends thought Uncy, detected the accomplished hand of Striking Example he most striking exampie was Marshal B Imanin’s Jetter to President Eisen- ‘er on disarmament last summer. last two Bulganin ley +4 ident Eisenhower coinciding with “ Y on their reappearance.—Reuter. Anthony Eden’s visit to Washington, pn lista Ani einen ay a eet Vere PEO, So a SE, Scat Sena ha