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if Sbassy, another unusual appo 5 tie yowere in Te ne in New York aud he in flor quarters. in Fashingten, Their two seus were born in New York. Mac- lean dvank heavily from) time to time but got is so trouble with the police or his superiors. From Washington he wos sent fo Cairo as Counselor ef tine t for a win so young. To paint his progress had been stewdily upward. Shortly, the die rection changed. + eo» ACLEAN went to C: V3 and fricnds jn Lo! socn began lo hear disquleting stories of bis behavior. It was said that depressed him after the © pients of postwar Washington nd that’ he decided to resolve his inner conflicts with alcohol. Hlis decision brought a number f surprising results, He broke iplomatie parties wild behavior, he was re- ined in the act of choking his wife to deaib, he grabbed a rifle from a sentry and panicked a crowd by waving it wildly, At all these times he was, of course, drank, The homosexual Mr. Hyde was in command. Through all these escapades the embassy exhibited a sort of embarrassed tolerance, but when he brolte into the apartment of a woman cmptoye of the American Embassy daring her abeence, drank all her Hquor and smashed her furniture, it was decided that things had gune far enough. He was declared to have suf- fered a nervous breakdown and fown back to England. is wile d children went to Spain for a . This in early 1950. In London he was given si months ta get well end he tool his troubles to a jady psyehi- atrist, meanwhile continaing his iwhing. His appearance at tha < to have been livid yellow and he koked as though he night bh. spent the night sittieg in a tannel. His hands shook, A friend leaving a night club got into a cab aul found Mla pom the floor. Hi by being awakened td hired the bedroom lit. The psychiatrist's seports be= cite mare cheerg in the fail anid the Foreign Office, acting in its orn mysterions way, decided to take hin buck, On Nov. 6, £550, after an unusually boozy night, he showed up for work as head tf the Asnevicaa Division. United & up a couple of by fer the n ie ue_tpb is not quite as impor- fant aS it sounds and has mostly TWOto with the rortine | hebwei nations j had ¢ } At this period he sconed very jconcerned about the Korean War, whieh he considered senseless. Siiting up late ov bottle, he onve asked @ friend, “What would you do if Lteid you T was a Com- munist agent? Well, Iam. Go Lon, Report me.” The friend, of { course, thought he was jeking, At another time he referred to himself as “the British Hiss.” ‘his, too, was dismissed ag per- siflage. Burgess, on the other hand, once merely sat down through the national anthem and was prompily flattened. Maclean himself once floored an old friend for defending Whittaker | Chambers. | Net Began to Close * Around Macleen Maclean had bought a home far out ia the country in the be- lief that 'fe away fvom the flesh- pots. would be helpful. Maclean became pregnant again. Her husband's problens were ag diffieult as ever, At nbowt that tine the ponder ovs Fureiyn Office tet was be- ginnivy to close avrount Macteai, ida 1949 there hud been fitke bable evidence that? certain docn- aieuts had been delivered to jhe Russians several years befor By the spring of 1951 the sus- peels had been recured io three and one of them was Maclean. Burgess, whom be apparently had not seen since they were is col- lege, in no way implicated, agland being E Was ho nov mul the ¢ Foreign Office aye search his home bun they were wailing until the whole family was absent. ’ st Maele: s in hand, ee i PPERING May these uve sirmnge mint, Maclean and Buvge: were both in London and it seems certain that now they were in canstani communication, Bot were deinking constantly and Maclean's drunken conduet was highly fvvational. He slept one night on a friend’s doormat. On Friday, May 25, which was Maclean’s sth birthday, Foreign Hesbert Morrison gave to Fawign Oitire tion Maclean. Pre- been netant peeanse of ayousing Maclean's suspicions and he was hoping to trap him with a com ing documer The ques- ingchawerw, had to be pnt ever 10 Monday because Maclean peren nis Le qt sly he Mrs. Mrs. 5 land, there | © wanted to! mged to take Satuesy iad a7 morning olf. Two friends, a wan end hie L wife, who had a births sith Maclean that Friday, sa a | ‘a te flee ak one woved lena'e heea the onto another for Teonversation never lynore brilliant, his frie Hand he seemed at ease i He particularly the prospective birth of child, . | Oa that Pride SS wats guid 40 felephone cad t & Tt have come trom Maclean kuew. Buruess leit jmmediate al wd Wd two stlitenses, Fenved and headed for > Suv ot Bure ie home jin Tatstield, re his friend Styles” drove up, Fhe three of thenr and Maclean } veording ta hee story. and “Styles wore ge ito make an overnight t a friend bub that he wo i ease and he 2nd ) south toward the Chanve! [They were not to see E yagi. | (What secrets did burgess and Maclean take with them in their Right to the Reds? Were they the season Communist China seemed able to dcvine US, strategy in Koreu? And how much did Mis. Maclean know of her husband's hiddva hfe? Continue this re story in next Sunday's NEWe) oa