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urgess, the” py, . ‘Writes a Column By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY ni 7 UY BURGESS of the Burgess-Maclean partnership of Russian 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 to the forth= coming Khrushchev-Bulganin visit 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 sald 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. Only Mr. Dulles eould do that.” Portrayed as Enemy This {s very interesting because obviously John Faster Dulles is now being portrayed as the enemy of Great Britain as part of the Communist Party line in all parts of the world. If he does not ge along with British policy with regard to the Near East, it is 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 Angio- American relations, it is because Great Britain recog- nized Red China too soon and having done that dg- parted altogether from both American and Briti cohcepts of right by insisting that Red China coyid shot its way into the United Nations. It has been sq#id, byt not officially, that Great Britain recognized Red ina after having been promised that the United States would quickly follow. If such a claim, which I heard in London a year ago, is correct, the British were taken 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 js surprising that the United States has not got around to doing so.” | In a word, this man, a Russian agent, who skipped out of his own country while under investigation and who now fs in Moscow in the employ of the Russian Foreign Office, wrote a speech which actually describes British policy 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? . . “ Blames China Lobby cots fe met in Washington American officials who agrged with him about Red China. He does not sy whg they were. He 8304 the American fallurejto 262 Tele. Room Holloman $79 gat" Witty Ber — / 2. BREAIGAR — Gandy I am willing to claim a participation, and the Right Wingof.the Republican Party, which in the United States Senate is the leadership of that patty-—He apparently does not believe that the voters have any interest in the matter. Burgess denies that the present Russian govern- ment is imperialist of expanstonist, although it has increased 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 it 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 ts the job which Burgess and Maclean hojd in Moscow, It is astonishing that no one among the for{ ‘ign colrespondents and diplomats in Moscow recogrfized in identified Burgess and Maclean during their tay Te. Censriaht, 1956, King ¥. ‘radicals, Ins. Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash, Star N, Y. Herald “i a pa” , Tribune - N. Y. Mirror N. Y. Daily News —_ iI fil a Daily Worker “oD The Worker —____ “5 ] ew Leader —_____ > APR 9 1956 See poet oe 7 tts he Washington Post-Times Hdrald his morning, 4/16/56, carried this rticle with the exception of thé last redbg) "4 i ina Lobby, of which ie sesteranites nee proprietor, although. of the third paragraph from the end. O paragraphs and the last sentence