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' age’ boys and boya,° \ I 4 Soe: 4 tet tte ah stopped working ‘tor tt and] left England. Then their disappearance raised the atench of suspicio which makes old frie at each othets doubtfully, causes the B people to. Peet newton thaie ans between the B and Amer: ican peoples. ‘There lies the sreater im, portance of the two diplomats. °: a 1, t that They both belong to that dangerous class, the attractive © delinquent. :° . . itts contemp LEGAL BY - ernment, a eer a breach al ene eee Both Strange, aes Mey Yet Attractive ‘ \°:° ” Neither could the White Pa- per tell us what Burgess :and - Maclean were really lke. I have met both men, To begin — with, they were not typical upperclass Englishmen, - One had only to lock at them to know that there was something strange about them. They had paried from the herd, and it seemed likely that the herd was right In any] little dispute it had with them, Yet both men were attractive. . Guy Burgess was the more. Positive personality of the two. ¥ He had a charm which was | hard to account for, as he was small and stocky, incor- Tigibly grubby, ad often’ He was at once obviously well bred and obviously ie ar oS squalid. It could be seen he _ belonged to the world of the © favored, who nave wealth and respect by right of birth; but | it was sure that in his time‘ i i? he awakened in some very” Queer rooms. He had mahy friends, and i some ‘of them tried to give. ‘their liking for him a rational explanation by saying that he. was very kind, and no doubt . he; was, ° But his charm was , ofa more exciting, more” troubling kind that can be: accounted for by good nature. Even when he was nearing. 4§ there was an engaging boy- igshness about him.. But there récalled a speci . watching the flames that roar - : and spread, a sone Secret Delight “72° <) FO" S97 ge " “ bretly wanted. There is a lit In Making Mischief‘. f this in all of us: and many. Sometimes in ple who were on the wholp j= table and sensible had af. araused feeling that Guy Bure gest was always likely to do something unpredictable and outrageous, and were on his aide, mee : “Had a ‘Shimmering, Unstable Personality . if Guy Burgess was & per- ‘petual child, Donald Maclean. “was © perpetual adolescent. He | was lanky like a lad who has | outgrown his strength and he- had kept the brilliant, un- . spoiled color .of eye and skin “that is faded in most adults. : f a. home fo children who are unhappily | * hot like other children there | Is a small boy who always, catches the visitor's aye, -. The brooding darkness of, the child's face lights up with | such an enchanting szile, His. response to atrangers is #0 - quick and gay, he has such‘ a quaint turn of phrase. Surely" | | we ~ swe é aM be anything very much wrong with this delightful little poy? - | - Well, yes, there ls. Jt un. . fortunately happens that wherever he goes fires break out. By constant watching it. has been established that the © only tey he cares for is a box-: of matches. The only game he © really enjoys is arson. He Hikes * stealing out to set 2 ght te ., r ? “his gaiety had the feverish | quality of an overexcited 18. ° ‘| Ht might easily ren up the houses. barng | houses, barns, hayricks, and. I. scale to hysteria. ” Lowi terwards is silent. while “afterwards doubts crossed | - one's Iaind, Could he really be the age that he was said to! be or responsible enough for | the post he occupied? This shimmering, unstable , effect was the mark of trag- | edy he had brought on hime | self. For Maclean was obvi-’ That was Burgess’: distin-.. guishing mark: The flashing. smile of a fireralser, full of: secret delight in mischief and destruction. Because he was 80 obviously a problem child, and when he was not smiling had the unhappy, appealing © look of a problem child, affec- ; tionate and benevolent, people felt a desire to help and ‘Pro- tect him, : 4 At the same time other peo le who were mischievous an protien looked to Him = ; he met a siranger his hand- . | shake was warm, he gave a. . welcoming smile, he asked per- : ‘sonal questions, made personal | confidences, i It is impossible’ to imagine & character less suited to bear. ‘the obligation of secrecy whigh | "| is imposed on conspirators.!“!” [£0 It ds significant he was on’ ] most affectionate terms with certain members of his family | ‘ana that these relatives were’ };agtonished, with an astonish, | r ent certainly genuine, whe ¢ if was first, put to them aft a 8 departure that he had be Soviet agent. ao ik, a ve them what they. foo, kept up between: “them ‘himself ‘an ‘unbroken’ barrier, F of deceft. This must have been: deen] Mi a tormenting strajx,” ‘On 4 /no matter how he argued | away] wv the moral aspect, simply: nad @ te he was not:made ts i j De ia ' men ously frank by nature. When | \§ Kremiin,) « % oughout 0 yeats hee way. It goes far to “explain HEpse au drunkenness, “A problem. adolescent * peals to the | kindhearted as : and benevolent men and wos; concerned |. themselves whe even in with this m clate 308 looked like. a. college *_ He was attractively gay, but | boy and acted lke. a college, ' boy who cannot handle’. his! new liberty, and will be a ‘tine. man when he has learned how to carry his liquor,;"< 45° <4 - Britain has not. dealt ‘lev Henly. with this’ matter 2B “there .is no. country! in? the: world that ‘would not. ha ‘peen baffied by the’.smok screen . which hangs, ‘round Burgess and Maclean,’ create by their Decaliar personallti " (Tomorrow: vi Burgess, an Maclean ; at ore ies «the oe! 7% NEW YORK JOURNAL AMERICAN — os Woo oe ee eee ee ae ee ee re