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TRESE DB. Burgess, Maclean Vandeville Act By GEORGE E, SOKOLSKY i! HRUSHCHEYV has a typical Russian sense of humor, the basis of which is always raw impudence, He exhibited Burgess and Maclean for five minutes just to say, “Nu! What the hell!” Obviously they were not free men or they would have stayed 10 minutes or half an hour. Their schedule .. Was five minutes and that is all they had. That they are treated as slaves—intellectual slaves—is apparent from the nature of their interview. For several years now, I have been writing about these fellows and I have been seeking out their relation- ships in our State Department. The Communist Party is universal and a member is under Party discipline within bis own cell. While they were in the United States, Burgess and Maclean were undoubtedly in @ cell in Washington which reported to a com- missar who reccived direct orders from Moscow or irgm a Moscow courier. Sooner or later, some Con-~ gressional Committee, more by accident than by keen investigation, will trip across some American member of that cell and we shall have the picture of an; espionage system involving our State Department and the British Foreign Office. When that cell is found,t it will startle many complacent Americans who insist! that such things are not possible, Spies in Wigh Places They are not only possible but they have happened and Burgess and Maclean, like a vaudeville team, popped up for five minutes just to show to the world that the Russians have spies in high places and no two could have been higher than Burgess and Maclean except Alger Hiss and Harry Dexter White, who, for all we know, may have been part of the same cell. The British have always been proud of their Civil Service an@ of their Intelligence Services. They used to boast that their Intelligence was the best in the world. It certainly was good. During World War I, they fell down. Dr. Klaus Fuchs, Dr. Allan Nunn May, the Canadian Spy Ring, the Australian Spy Ring and Burgess and Maclean are examples—and examples only~-of defective Intelligence. The British will now take this sitiation in hand, too late, but with singulay, sicicncy and they will clean it up. They will discovers exactly what happened. There will be no cry of nif rthyismt because they will do if quietly and when i ig.ali over, a White Paper will be issued to Parliamen which will have to be-truthful because the opposition party will accept nothing less. peg? Tolson, Nie ys Poe Moardman Belmont Parsons —.. Rosen Visterrowd Tele. Room .__ Holloman — Gandy MR. BSP J Wash, Post and Times Heraid Wash, News Wasa. Star Tribune N.Y. Mirror —__. N.Y. Daily New Daily Worker The Worker New Leader Dete —--_