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“of the world” __there tosee him. __ From MARTIN PAGE MOSCOW, Monday. UY BURGESS and Donald Maclean, the British diplomats who fled to Russia in 1951, both said in Ios- cow tonight that they did not know if Philby was now behind the Iron Curtain. Burgess, dressed in a dark blue pyjama jacket and trousers which did not quite match, seemed ‘upset at the House of Commons statement .| about his old friend. “It-he was in this part sald Burgess, “I would have thought that he would have got in touch with me, But he bas not de I knew_he was in Pragui I would certainly go ‘T’m7puzzled “However, dear boy, I am just as puzzled about is “movements as the British Government seems to be. “Mind you, that’s not to say that he isn’t here. “The more I read about the Profumo case the more glad I am to be here. And the more I belleve that. any civilised berson like Philby might want to come here.” He ridiculed the {dea that Philby was the “Third Man” in his own and Maclean's sensa- tlonal disappearance 12 years ago. ‘An accident’ The truth, he said, was that Maclean stopped his taxi in St. James's- square and was bumped into by a car carrying over-eager Special Branch sleuths. “He was on his way to Junch with me,” sald Burgess. “It was this and this alone which Tevealed to Maclean that he was being followed. “There was no ‘Third Man,’ no unnamed M15. man, no unnamed diplo- mat, no Philby who is supposed to have told me in Washington what was going on.” Donald Maclean was asked if he could con- firm that Philby was in a_ Communist country. “T don't know anything about %++ire-Yeplied.