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u-19 (i i-24-55)} ~. “ JULG lidd a gouge BPiVeog aida Pal poe. Traitors Progress .., . A good deal of the obscurity concerning Lhe cases of Guy Francis de Moncy~Burgess and Donald Duart’ Maclean had been cleared up with the aid of Vladimir Petrov, the former Soviet espidnage™~ agent now in Australia. Two deep mysteries, how- ever, persist. One of them is how, in view of their histories, characters and scandalous habits (as described, for example, in the study by Mr. John S. Mather of the London Daily Express, an abridged version of which is published in the current issue of the U. 8. News & Worid Report) this pair could have been permitted {o remain in the British Foreign Service until the very moment of their flight. On this point the explanations given in the recent British white paper are Jame and inadequate: and they were hardly much improved upon by Selwyn Lloyd, the Foreign Secretary, during his interrogation in the House of Commons yesterday. The other big mystery is why, after persistent denials by Comrades Khrushchev and Molotov and other Soviet officials af any knowledge of these fugitives, ihe Messrs, Burgess and Maclean should have been suddenly permilled or commanded last week to appear at a press conference in Moscow. One theory is that this sudden Communist volte Winret thara SF 4d 5k, We fans hae a dauiin neanngonda niupanca is he hope of embittering Anglo-American relations and thereby thwarting the effects of the recent conversations here in Washington between ihe British Prime Minister and President Eisenhower. There is still some disposition in England to accept the Burgess-Maclean statement that though they have been Communists since their Cambridge days they had never engaged in espionage or other treasonable activities—though this stalement was immediately characterized as a lie by Mr. Petrov in Canberra. The other supposed purpose of the Communists may be to exacerbale American domestic political controversy in this election year. It is perhaps not without significance that the press conference at Moscow was hurriedly summoned just after Gen. MacArthur—in his debate with former Presi- dent Truman over responsibility for reverses in ihe Korean war—had expressed his belief that American war policies and’ his own battle plans had been relayed.(presumably by Maclean) to Peiping, by way of Moscow. Another theory is ihat the sudden public reemergence of Burgess and Maclean is somehow related {o the struggle for power within Soviet Russia itself, which may well be resolved, or at any rale clarified, at the All- Soviet Congress of the Communist Party which hegins today at ihe Kremlin. According to this theory, Comrade Khrushchev is using Burgess and Maclean, and whatever information or documents they managell to bring with them in their fight to Russia, to prove to the delegates that the policy of the United States is now more warlike than ever, and that his own policy of creating immense asmaments and developing heavy industry at the ant dards ie thara cost. of living standard dividig necessary. 15 Unerefore hecess Tolson, Nichols a. ee — Boardman a acc Belmont + Mason —-_______.. Mohr Parsons Rosen Tamm — Nease Winterrowd Tele, Room Holloman Gandy PYLE) JUN Bx tae Me anal 3 , a £ a. ape py o } Ct 7, a én A: WE FEL ES 208 a Wash. Post and Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N, ¥. Mirror N.Y. Daily News Daily Worker The Worker New Leader < re ‘~ ~ 3s idjose Peek