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Burgess, th Spy? Writes a Column ‘ By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY UY BURGESS of the Burgess-Maclean partnership ussian spies in Great Britain and the United States wrote a piece for The London Sunday Express, last February, which is of interest at the present mo- Ment because of implications in relation te the forth- coming Khrushchev-Bulganin yisit to Great Britain. Burgess clarifies Russian policy, as he under- stands it, after having said that he and Maclean have had every opportunity to meet Russians “of different Kinds and at all levels, except the highest official level.” Then he says: —— : “It has been said that we tried to hurt Anglo- American friendship in the statement that we made (when they first showed themselves to foreign corres- pondents). This assumption is as false as would be any illusion on our part that we could do anything much to hurt this friendship even if we wanted to. Qniy Mr, Dulles could do that.” ae APR 16-1956 ortrayed as Enemy This ts very interesting because obviously John ‘oster Dulles is now being portrayed as the enemy of reat Britain as part of the Communist Party line in all parts of the world. If he does not go along with British policy with regard to the Near East, it Js to be remembered that Sir Anthony Eden has not gone along “with American policy with regard to the Far East. AS a matter of fact, if there is any disturbance of Anglo- American relations, it is because Great Britain recog- nized Red China too soon and having done that de= parted altogether from both American and British concepts of right by insisting vhat Red China could shoot its way into the United Nations. It has been said, but not officially, that Great Britain recognized Red China after having been promised that the United States would quickly follow. If such a claim, which I heard in London 2 year ago, is correct, the British were aken in, _— . Burgess says that he wrote a speech for his chief in the Foreign Office which “ran roughly as follows”: “The Chinese People’s Government is a govern- Ment of Chinese people by Chinese people and for Chinese people. That is why we have recognized it and that is why it is surprising that the United States has not got around to doing so.” © o———» In a word, this man, a Russian agent, who skipped out of his own country while under investigation and » whe now is in Moscow in the employ of the Russian Forelgn Office, wrote a speech which actually describes British polfcy and which denounces (‘it is surprising”) American policy. He does not say when he wrote that speech but Burgess was employed in the British-Foreign. Office during the years 1944 to 1951 and therefore he could not have been without knowledge of the Korean ‘War which took so many American lives, Could it have been Bevin or Morrison for whom the speech was written? >. : : ~ ! That 1 1958 + N.Y. “¢ “OURNAL AMERIC.. Mr. Tol gon Mr. Rea _| Mr. Boardmtin "} Mr. thon son Mr. Mohr Mr, Parsons__ Mr. Rosen ___ Mr. Tamm. Mr. Nease Mr. Winterrowd Tele. Room ____ Mr. Holloman Miss Gandy___ Blames China Lobby — 0. o—~— , He met in Washington American officials who sreed with him about Red China, He does not say ho they were. He attributes the American failure to ecognize Red China to the China Lobby, of which Alfred Kohlberg says he is the sole proprietor, although I am willing to claim a participation, and the Right Wing of the Republican Party, which in the United States Senate is the leadership of that party. He apparently does not believe that the yoters have any interest in the matter. Burgess denies that the present Russian govern- ment is imperialist of expansionist, although it has Hncreased its hegemony over the human race from. 180,000,000 in 1939 to about 800,000,000 today. The only reason for the Truman “Containment Policy” and for NATO is to limit Soviet expansion, The article was copyrighted by the North American } Newspaper Alliance, Inc., and The London Sunday Express. Nevertheless it did not attract too much at- tention, perhaps because few identified its author as the spy, probably figuring that Jt was somebody else _ whose ideas were being given currency. The effort of Soviet Russia to have Red China recognized by the United States and the United Nations knows no abate- ment and apparently the purpose of this article was to influence both British and American public opinion. Perhaps that is the job which Burgess and Maclean hold in Moscow. =~ It is astonishing that no one among the forelgn correspondents and diplomats in Moscow recognized and identified Burgess and Maclean during their stay there, — : Le Coprruht, 1056, King Veatures Bradicate, Ine Se cma