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Wrong men, ‘right ties L.-J LL the Foreign -Oviice needs mow iss ‘iy to find microfiim..of its seeret doce- “tents hidden in a pumpkin and, the parallel with the Alger Hiss treason. case in the United States would be complete. : Sutin the case of Maclean aud Bur- gess the overdiilm got io. Moscow, From the laconic and reluctant sdmis- sions of ithe Foreign O8ive ib appears to have heen easier for Maclean to take seeret dotniments than it is fer the law- abiding layman te get a passpert ta Paris. Whats farce if is! ; For over four years officiaidom has tried to hush up the real stury because itisa seandalous one that reflects pn the Foreign Offine, its recruitment, abd its quite astonishing tlolerarice of sot Yehaviour thatin any other oceupanin obld have earned Maclean and Bur~ gPss the sack, Now the game is up because ive People was able to publish the truth, Maclean and Bergess had the right sopial bachsreund aad ware the right ald scehoal tie, In the anachrenistic atmosphere af the Foreign. Service, which is about as democratic as Eton and the Carlton Chub, this signified / that they were gentlemen. fit to associate with the other gentlemen, whose piemairs reveal thai they. gat most things wrong. Now we. are proinised the Whites ‘Payer we should have had four years ag. Then fetus ga Hitee farther, hat us have a real investication int jibe at CS Mia, Pont Cys RE: DONALD QUART MacLEaNn, at al ~ ~ —_ i es appolotwients to the Fordign Office, |On, ESPTONS GE « K {Sufite LG 37183 ik recora it is quite dinpussiblel to befieve that the best earididates could BATLY RERALD gob past the doorman, LONDON, EXCLAMDE PR SO gee OFFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE 7 et eee LONDON, ENGLAND,