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0-19 (7-8-55) Eastland Asks State Department For Full Maclean-Burgess Data » The curiosity of the British * public, which apparently is “\__Unable to learn the full truth “oncerning diplomats Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess who skipped to Russia when they were-about to be arrested. may be at least partially satisfed by a prospective investigation of the Senate Internal Security Committee. ~The committee,-headed by Senator Eastland of Missis- sippi, Is reported to have asked the State Department for a full report on the data it has ; about the pair and the possi- } bilities of Maclean having di- vulged some secrets to the ISSR. The investigators are not ticularly interested in the se of Burgess and Maclean. That interests them is that Maclean was head of the American section of the For- eign Office in the interval betweerl completion of the Chinese concentrations on the Yalu_Biyer_.and.their actual mass intervention against the -United Nations forces in Korea. The committee wants to dis- ,cover whether there was & definite agreement between the United States and Britain to consider Manchuria as a “sanc- tuary” regardless of the actions of the Chinese Communists. If such a decision was actually taken by the American and British governments, there is no doubt that Maclean, a pol- "iey adviser official, must have known about tt. So far..the State Depart-° ment has reported that there 4s nothing in its files to in- dicate the existence of an agreement creating a “sanc- tuary” for the Chinese forces. There had been apparently ter four Jsnding at BY LET}: —_ chon and the pulverization of the North Korean forces pro- viding ‘that they would not be pursued beyond the Yalu River. This was fully under- standable. Manchuria was at that time # neutral territory. Any attempt to follow the de- feated North Koreans across its boundaries would have contravened international reg- ulations and given the Chinese legitimate grounds to join the war. It is true, the State Depart- ment says, that on December 7, 1950. shortly after the rout of our 8th Army, Prime Min- \ster Clement Attlee did come hastily to Washington to find * ovt from President Truman what our intentions were re- garding possible retaliation against the Chinese Commu- nists. And it is assumed that he was assured that despite the clamor of public opinion in this country, no drastic action, such as bombing of the Manchurian lines of com- munications and military in- stallations, was contemplated without previous consultations with the U. N. participants iny the Korean campaign. This thesis of the State De- vartment is not fully accepted by the investigating committee which would like to have fur- ther research and study of the matter of “who and what cre- ated the Manchurian sanctu- ary?” There has been some indi- cation that interesting papers on’ the period between Novem- ber 6 and 20, including an est!- mate from the Central Intel- ligence Agency, may be found if diligent search Is made at the State Department. Here is the sequence of the some ie xind of high-level declz Chinese preparations to tere on af Prepi vene in the Korean confi he Manchurian Sanctuary The Pelping high command had begun to transfer its best trained troops from the south te Manchuria in May. Late that month precise informa~ tion to that effect was com-" municated to our Government by the Chinese Nationalist in- telligence. This was largely discounted as “Taipei propa- ganda.” Definite information about the concentration of three Communist route armies along the Yalu River was, how- ever, in possession of the Pen- tagon sometime at the end of September. The presence of that imposing force worried our field commanders but the thesis that this was merely in- tended to protect China’s neu- trality was accepted by mili- tary men and diplomats. was the positive intelligenc that unusually large quantiti of heavy military equipmet were reaching Manchuria f1 the USSR, The Senate committee would like to establish by doc- uments and testimony of the” men in office at that time whether, after those reports reached Washington, any agreement was made with our British ally to prevent the extension of the war by con- sidering Manchuria as a “sanctuary.” If such an agree= ment was reached, could Mac~ lean have communicated it to his Muscovite contacts in Lon= don? Although the Chinese Com- munists were ready for action early in October, they did not strike until late in November. Did they wait so long in order to ascertain whether America would retaliate with its power- ful Air Force against their | bases in Mukden, «Kirin and + Harbin? And did they find out - -that an agreement not to’ punish the aggressor had been reached by Washington and don? eed Og Mag Dowrakel JUN 22 O76 ag Mr, Tolson Mr, Parsons Mr. Rosen Mr. Tamm Mr. Sizoo Mr, Winterrowd wale: Room olen He besigt Wash, Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Mirror Daily Worker The Worker New Leader