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eT ee aS i ae wee tara hate Tee a aa ge Sabet ae bee ene a Loe seo De eed al _|._Maclean, head of the American ; “Depa¥tment in the London For- { House of Commons: By JOHN O'DONNELL - — Washington, Feb, 12.—This current installment of the great Burgess-Maclean spy serial, as contributed by the Kremlin authors, has left this constant reader chew- ing his finger down to the second knuckle and wondering where the next chapters are going to be printed and who will be the authors. Almost five years ago, Guy "Burgess, the screwball Britisher assigned to Britain’ 3 embassy" ere i ina post where he was privy to . our nation's military and Wop policy secrets, and his ariend uO a eign Office, vanished behind the Tron Curtain. Both were Commu- . nist sympathizers and haters of the “Anglo-American” attitude toward Communism and “the senselessnese and danger of the American policy in the Far East and in Europe.” But why have the big boys in the Kremlin after years of silence decided at this particular time te parade Burgess and Maclean at a Moscow press conference? We sugg73t a couple of answers, These ata mere suggestions be-~ eause this reporter trails along with Winston Churchill's famous May, 1939, observation in the that tha thinking of the bosses in the Kremlin “is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” First, we note that the date of ‘the flicht fram London of Bor . —= . gess and Maclean in the. spring Red Bost Khrushchev of '51 was shortly after the deci- Said he was in the dark sion of Harry Truman to remove abruptly Gen, MacArthur from his Far East command. The current volume of Truman’s biography and Gen. Mac~ Arthur's blistering retort pivots on the unanswered question: who tipped. off the_Chinese Reds that they could enter the Korean war | with the vital advance knowledge that the U. §&. State De-"', partment and the White House under Truman would hamstring . MacArthur by giving the Red army their “place of sanctuary” north of the Yalu and prohibit him from bombing their bases and supply — lines? MacArthur’e views on this, which mention specifically Burgesa andMaclean, reached Moscow 46 hours before a decision was made to bring the two British defectors out of t their their long concealment. * 7 BY LETTE” JUN 222 i Jolson eo Nichoft et J Bosediian “Belmont GE Mason Mohr Parsoas Rosen Tamm Nease Vinterro wd Tele. Room Holloman . GandyiiGAN— —_—_- MR, BRANIGAN 2p pf an a ey as od or ew . eo? —— ‘ Mer re . vate vd 126 FEB ed ee a tiie = Wash. Post and _____ Times Herald Wash, News Wash, Star N.Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Mirror N. Y. Daily News Daily Worker —_-_-__ The Worker New Leader Date fEBT31956_ haa a? an aa en hg eerie i te os a