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ay overcame Mert weak ereby * ‘they hove theshselves diots. ‘°° Th§ ‘ Forgign OMce. -jdg not pey hiatric ‘clinle for prob- | em children and adolescents. But. these ere: "not Communists. . rar Boag 7 = Idiocy = Soe A wae HERE was other com- T plication. we Both.: *meén were ‘homosexuals: * Other - homosexuals had come to their. aid * , Fas deplorable. ° a ut it made it atin mmore® dificult - for .the Security | organisations ‘to look at- the dossiers of Maclean and | Burgess and. say, elther in! private or in this. White-' paper: “Yes, both of them' & were Communists, and there- * fore So-and-So and So-and~ 50, who hel ped. th them, {mua be Commun Of course Br has deals| idiptically with this matter, | rf Buk it must be realised that! thqre is no country in the | wo Id_ that would’ not have!})/ m baMed by the smoke-, 7} f& ve en which hangs round. :ife Burgess .and : Macleab, i created by “thelr pecullar | fF personalitdes. it ar ysccs bo Suspicion | BY thelr lot was to do a Special ‘harm over and -beyond this. poe The usefulness of Burgess ER F, and: Maclean to the Soviet & Union increased when they ~ ; s stopped working for it. as Un ee rn ih ie THE AUTHOR, coke spes'and Jeft England: : .: ta NOR Their disappearance raised | ; ; : the, -stench of suspicion © ~ which makes old friends look | atjeach other doubtfully, ' catises the British people to - fee] - contempt for: + grealer importance’ of. _ ‘. the -two © diplomats. ;| mo. - Se lhe They’ both’ ‘belon | ee ib te dangerous de fe ee vta ly genuine, Ww! it oviet agent, - i ¥ Throughout 20 yearn “he \ and ‘himself an matter how he argued away.t ‘the: moral aspect, explain nls recurrent periods - ; of nervous - eT Z j drunkenness.'», og eee _ injured him also. § 4": 1S ectionate' and benevolent 3 “themselves with: this thang fot his family, and that thesd Telatives were agton - wilh an astonishment “firgt put to them: etter ih _ de arture that’ he. ‘had kept up" between: them) unbroken} - barrier of deceit, hae WE cn Thig must have been’ : tormenting strain on him, no. Z ‘simply 3 because he™~ was not made: that way.: It goes ‘far .tok a . [ us not forget that. He: was probably self-§ tortured. Communism he fon a ' A problem ‘adolescent : @ ppeals to the kind hearted} ngly' as a problem 4 c ua: ; “ind again - . many # en and women’ concerned 4 _ who, even in his late thirjles, ~— Jooked like an‘under-. i ' graduate and$ a ted 3 . like an undergraduate: , who cannot handle his! new liberty,;and will! ~be all right~ when he? i has learned :, Ws LO jp arink. Taint a should be ‘realised that, (because Burgess and Maclean! had: these special? characteristics, tha ‘investigation : of thelr: case could not possibly. lead to the identifica- poe ommunist: . ‘in Britain, ; any - people’ ‘had: oped, ae oe ertainly Burge x hgve coe get °o = m a cr s o < o ad os rs 7 gs = ° : and - certainly i iney owed thelr excep- ; tional good fortune to. a the influence of power: we“ ful Deoplech 8G ya tied! ‘But most of their; _pro- :tectors’ were utterly: aun-4 ‘tated by Communism, an w@re actuated by notht rme@re®.- sinister - ; 4.dqsire to help two men wht ftréy-ltked, who- them to h