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0-19 (11-22-55) Vioyd Accuses Soviet Chiefs | Charges “Lack of Candor’ on Maclean and Burgess . rom the Herald Tribune Bureau Special to the Herald Tribune LONDON, Feb. 13.--Foreign secretary Selwyn Lloyd told the fouse of Common today that “if oviet authorities wish to create aistrust and drive a wedge" be- tween.Great Britain and the VInited States by producing Guys. urgess and Denaid.Maclean al this time “they will not succeed. In 4 blunt comment on the te- abearance of the two missing cuplomats in Moscow Saturday end on their statement to the wess, the Foreign Secretary said ine affair “brings out into clear relief the persistent lack of andor of ihe Soviet authorities .; their statements about these Lloyd said the Russians} nt tried to writ off the Burgess. Maclean affair as Western ant: S6viet propaganda. Last. October" at Geneva, Harold Macmillan, thein Foreign Secretary, asked Soviet Foreign Minister Viaches- Jav M, Molotov for information about the two men, but was told! that Mr. Molatoy “was quite unable to provide any.” | Khrushehev. Too As recently as Jan, 12, Nikita’ |S. Khrushchev, Soviet Commu- nist party chief, denien at an| interview with visiting Labor’ Imember of Parliament Harold ‘Wilson that he had ever heard janything of the two men from! lany Soviet official and asked, Ave then in our country then?” “The House must form its own| opinion of the veracity of these statements.” Mr. Lloyd remarked. dryly, “This kind ef conduct shows how difficult it is to estab- lish relations of mutual trust which the Soviet Union professes so much to desire.” As to the Burgess and Mac- anor during the wa: Jean statement in Moscow, the Foreign Secretary dismissed it las “designed to be used for propaganda purposes,” pointing out that the “two men were not permitted to answer any ques- tions, and no credence can be placed in their words.” As to the reasons for the emergence of the pair at this! time, Mr. Llyod said: “One view is that it was to forestall awk-: ward questions during the visit lof the Soviet leaders to this country and to clear the air. ‘That may be so. After the visit of the Prime Minister and my- self to Washington and the close jaccord we reached with the United States government on so many matters, the Soviet au- ‘thorities wish to create distrust, id drive a wedge. If this is the jexplanation, they will nob suc- ceed.” Maclean Suspected Answering Commons ques- tioners, the Foreign Secretary said thet suspicions about the leakage of information to the Soviet authorities “was nar- rowed down to Maclean before he departed,” while Burgess was not as directly:suspect until his jdeparture. , This evening, the Foreign Of- fice issued a formal statement denying that Burgess had ever worked for MI-5, intelligence, as he contended in his state- ment at Moscow. The Foreign Office said that “the only con- wnection Burgess had with MI-5 ‘was working for the British Broadcasting Corporation when Ihe did from time to time report to MI-5 information baout Ger- many yeceived b him_fram a Tolsee a Z Nighbts ye &.. Boardman 4 27 Belmodt ctw Mason -- Mohr Parsons Rosen — Tamm Nease Wincerrowd Tele. Room Holloman Gandy ——___ Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash, Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N.Y. Mirror N.Y. Daily News —— Daily Worker The Worker New Leader Date JEP Posy