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al bases and supply lines would a commander have dared to throw the full weight of the Chinese JArmy into Korea... . The Mac- lean-Burgess defection has shown how he could have KNOWN... “It was not until the recent exposure of the British spies, Burgess and Maclean, that the true facts began to unfold. ‘These men with access to secret, files were undoubtedly links in the chain to our enemy in Korea through Peiping by way of Mos- cow.” Why did the Soviet govern- ment fail to produce Maclean and Burgess before? They may jhave believed that they could conceal the two diplomats in- definitely. But “The Daily Ex- press” book showed circumstan- tisily that this was no longer possible. | Tells of Seeing Maclean Tn fact, the “London Daily] Mail” correspondent in Geneva, Frederick Sands, telegraphed in * November, 1955, to his newspa-| per saying he had been told by a Russian diplomat that Mac- lean, having been brought to Kast Berlin, had been analyzing all the plans put forward by the| West anc was being consulted at} every stage of the big Geneva coiferences of 1955, Sands said: “The Russian told me: ‘Yes, 1) have met Maclean. I saw him) Al | A tain tt Ou March 18, 1954, just after| ry re tain , 1854, ‘Only it be were soevatect tna! the ‘Big Four conference arBe~} line, I wrote a dispatch saying: “How is such infiltration ac- complished? In some ecuntries| like France and Italy, where the! Communist party is not regarded AS @ conspiracy, divect access is igained to cabinets and govern- ‘ment departments where im- ‘portant information is acquired | daily as to the trend of policies while they are being shaped. This permits Moscow to move on| ‘the diplomatic scene in ways tha: cause international friction and Weaken the solidarity of the free ‘world. Messrs. Maclean and Burgess, formerly of the British iForeign Office, sit behind the "Iron Curtain advising the Rué- sians, But the British keep on pooh-poohing the Communist! menace and crying out against ‘MeCarthyism.’” Messrs. Maclean and Burgess: will probably soon lose their propaganda value inside Moscow and will want io come out from behind the Iron Curtain, Per- haps their advisory role now may be suspect. Some day the Soviets might even decide to liquidate them. They certainly didn't act! like persons free from duress when they were produced for just five minutes at a press con- lonly by two Brtish and two Soviet reporters. The revelations add more mysteries than they solve. for-tie—fest time in. Moscow in the summer of 1954.” ~ ae ference last Saturday attended: ©1956, N.Y. Herald TIME Inc.