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anew MIDDLETON writing rope don in the New York Times says that in throwing dust in everybody's eyes Mr Maclean has shown herself as great at actress as Sarah Bernhardt. Great love in this case seems indeed to have produced great ari, Aside from this, the fact is that the getaway was a mastecsireke ef Soviet ingenuity. ‘Moat Moscow knew Maclean was going (o he qeestioncd—and got him out of England and oy the way to Moscow be- love the questioning could take place--is romarkable enough But Crat Mascow should haves done the same thing for Melinda and the childven onens up a new field of troubled speculation. ‘To have ken out the husband and lefh the wife, peesumably, would have had a damaging eifec! on Soviet “sources” all over the world. Neverihele.s, a teassessment of se curity values in England is ling irom the disclosure of Moscow's success in eluds ing and evading the British security system. Officials find it embarrassing to talk on the subject ary more. But you simply can't pusit it under the rug. A lov of injury alveady has been done by official disingena- ousness. The Russians, as the surfacing of Burgess and Maclean discloses, com pounded capital oul of iL, What we have ln guard against constantly in combating the evil thing is, first, (hat we don’t come to weer the face of our totalitarian adver. savy, ated, secandly, that Moscow doesn'y dive a wed between Britain and ‘paetica. / WASH POST PAGE Eh