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u-is iii-zz-ea! 92__ - /lé-92*92 ' _ - glpl»/El" ",s'.=?'s§:¢_4.__._ , "- ,m _,h,V Hanan ' Ilollr MacArthur l Parsons ._.i..__._ 3 Roles _.-.....__._.i Tutu ........_.___ Neale -1.-_.._.._ K Iinterrowd Tele. Room _.__.._ A-l Holloman .._.._...i Goody .____...__.._ 92 " Itnutern "l M '__ {,r'i 'LONDON. Feb. 9'I'he Brit-, I ish Foreign Oice said today it had never seen any evidence" Guaurgessthat -issing British and_1Q.0na.ld.Mac:diplomats l.TEai1"" had "leaked" oielal in- formation, as alleged by Gen. Douglas MacArthur: ' A sbokesman was replying tot questions at his press confer- ence on MaeArihurs statement linking his dismissal in 1951 as United States Far Eastern Com-l mander with the case of Bur- gess and MacLea11, W 5 .5 _ 1... = Writing -in Lite niagazlneg MacArthur said the real reason .,s-»92behind his dismissal by then, be President Harry Truman might; r¢92"' " have been my recommendation r 1:3 Q3.". I, made in January 951! shortly, before my release, that a trea-ll 1|;-'i -92 - F-Ll?9292; trtiia . '.. t'.~.1..c° .92%5 1?» son trial be initiated to break up a spy ring responsible for ;;..-..*¢.'-1 - _J_a_g,fd3 x " ;;s-, the purloining of my top-seereti reports to Washington." Ii $1 92'6 *92't.92i.i'$L[In Washington, MacArthursi ';:'»i92:92---'1'» - _charge that he may have been, Y892§§!92i92 it red for demanding a L1-eason 'trial" of Red spies in Washing-y ton brought a Senate i investigation by Internal Se-l curity Subcommittee Chairman? James O. Eastland D-Miss.!. Wash. Post and __Q _{The -Senator told an inter- l _ Times Herold viewer: As reported in the I Wash. News press, that is a very, very se- rious charge, and we shall eer» _ Wash. Star tainly go into it."] _ - N. Y. Herold i_..-_ Tribune ;5a1 '_I!he I 'Foreign Oice spokesman l, l "We have never seen any evi-92 N. Y. Mirror .i:lence or bB8l1'p!'O92I'idEd withll i" H N. Y. Daily News .e_ any which would show that in-3, ' , i formation at that time leaked ljoily Worker ._._._i through these people." l The Worker __i_._... MaeLean and Burgess disap-3, peared from England in May,i New Leader .____i 1951. Burgess had served in they British Embassy in Washingtoni from August, 1950, until early May, 1951, when he was recalledl Date E EE _ .. @313 to London and asked to resign jrom the Foreign , _~ !_ l__ 1 J A I 31¢, ._ __-~_ C,-, .. !_____.,_._.-.. ._._......l --._----s _ .,; - ~ ,3; Hi =1-;EIF, :1-P ' . E my __ -Il!&'}¬ H -- ; 92 _ _ I, . ; ; _-Vs ' ,.~9292= _§ "-1, P. -. .e..;t.2s1:a§,s:_t;/-ties:&=.~:z=:i>.s. er #1-:-."+ .. - ~-- ~- -----'.'.,- -_ , V J _:___,_,___,;,.*~" a-~ e ~" _"_'7Tf4=f? - mm . _ __ ,__, Q w" __ 4 __, ,...,4,T F ,, . .. -or- "' - " f * 92..I-M-92i-st ~ 1" '5 --v 92_- .-- --, *92 /. -W no n/'*/ By JOHNK. HUTCHENS I 1: 1 .1 -._;'~_.~ . '$. i ...,;-avl --. slur _. Ajui -gays. at aienepl_-Llewellyn.grandfather toisedaway a fortune, and hisown > - -Doubled ...;-mn¢"aé=';;r:,ss." *" 1-ifllof Spent his life D8-yids oilthe family losses. low THEit-ord its oi publisher,Richard YouLlew- meet Hamish rst at Epsom, where, sym- ; e1Iyn'snev§__ng_vel takesits irlsplratiorf from bolically, he is wearin¢"a'd1-es;shirt, and 59¢ the Bulaess-Maclean case. though it turns outithat needdarninl. - . - that "lI1$Pl1'iti-ionisn't rst the word that rushes Man in the Middle i tomincl connectionin with"Mr. r~r3,m57}tr';i<-;ve'*With that much established,Mr. Llewellyn has Still, a sort of par. - rrjrsms-:'. < 2-> F *' -S' r .,3:":l"£?-"' -..=$ i i l. planted corruption: seed in Hamish Gleave, the Jallel ls certainly ;-.~,g;.--.;:-.'~;:~ . 5.1.. i ll'-v.-' ,1r .- '~l "..3.-_$-"-_. '"l!,_:,-92;V. - -.. -L;- .._*.t~. t, middle-class Englishman caught between the there,-_ InMr. Llew- 92 92 . ...~ 9 aristocrats whom he resentfully envies, the le- erfl,. .- __._= . .tr -' -I,. > t .-'~t';.;-.-.-'i*::~----.;.-at -..;;_' > -; -i;.;,w .ellyn's book,as in boring class with whom by birth and education I'< ,'- ._1j:;i';:1:3,.5=. '':=-i,.-1:3" -.t-a'.i.».¢~$1:z:""->" ': l115%--j._<-sE"§;l$j§?ii';'c=;: ;thl-t'__news story he has nothing in common, and the parvenu iwhich startled - the $3.? -7"?-_=*§; ' 1-:. .<:.+.'.-:.';a».:=-,=-»eaea;.-;-e C - British business man and his vulgar kind whom ineewoi-is in 1951, he would happily lee destroyed. All in all. Halnio two--British diplo- iii if. .. .. l ~ in -<s;;,:~-".r"=r'. - _ 1i'= ,. its a ripe plum. p - '_ llllltd steal away to f.=si'fs-5.11-- -' ===-=:-'i%k-92=£»'---4-=~'=E# Now these are the materials oi a. complex and =. ._>... =='-: -the Iron Curtain - -}:- 15 ;;.;1Y fl,-'15" lsignitlcant tragedyor our time, but Mr. Llewel- Twith Jinportantse- lyn has taken a sllpshod way with them. Given lcrets lifted from 5I;;.?;J"I?§.='£Ir-'1'..1-E.-=-".."-'=,"=5 '7 ' . HQ the backgroundand characterof HamishQleave. .[_1"oreign Oiceies: " i'5§:§;§.li?=5;3:I-="s,.~.~a.. I I H ':-"'¬':§3?:§:-"55<I"""§.=:.,' IT-1"-'_% his detection is made too easy,a matter chiefly One oithem leaves. ;=I.~:=; K'{,_-Q:-1: - i:-. i. .- . .'.=:¢>of frustrated greed. The Communist overtures _behindT'a wile and < i/f _. Ivi K leading to his downfall are invited by a nalveté children_ whopre- < _,__i. W__! preposterous in one whose very position makes Boards-am wmsir will loin discretion automatic. And while Mr. Llewellyn " Bclnoa£;,f.lL____" him inthe u.s. s.R. lsuggests in a last-minute rush that his diplomat |~-This - is Hamish 1 . ' ' s"-'. ,.,,i "T"_ - -. -- lluon 'has siiceumbedintellectually J to Ia.I the ommunistt_.____-t .MY Gleave. a sorry . ildiay. there reallyhaBbeen little orno prep- Parson ii s ecimen indeed. aration Ior the big betraya1._ i -"M hmto an Richard Llewellyn Role! ; y _K""REVIE92gl Imperfections Tenn __Q_..+...... and perhaps it doesn'treally matter. how spe- cically Nl'i?'Llewe'll3in"hadDuncan Maclean in That leaves it a kind or disguised cloak-anh Neon _mind when he wrote about Hamish Gleave.ldasaer story,complete witha fiery lemme fatal: i'Ihere,_lsusual the disclaimer oi "any resem-lurins Hamish, on tohis destruction. Irrelevant Iinzcrmwd 'bianceactual to persons. living ordead"-but characters appear and disappear. What promise Tcle.Room Ethat notemight havecrept in out of old habit.to be important relationships remain half ex- Holloman - The important thing here is what makes Hamie plored. And_ nally. the man who wrote How sad? ._-_...__.._...._ tyranny.las his irlends . call him! run to the eznbi-ace oi,Green was My Vaey" and "l'~ioneBut the Lonely Heart" with such'admirable narrative 4" . Right to the pointoi his defection,he has ease, is guilty or a strange muddincss here. even not formally been a Communist. He is n. hard-i.to the point 0! long passages oi dialogue in workini. underpaid,competent officialin charge which you must backtrack to discover who is of the Foreign 0iilce'sAmerican desk. If he speairll'iE- . despises Americans, and smarts under English All oi which confusion may, and I suspect dependence cgthe dollar, he hates Communistsinset: reflectMr. I-lewellyn'suncertai_nty about- MR.B will as well. some day he may become an ambassa- Just whathe wantedto make of this,a spy story dor, but it's I. long tlme,to wait. and in the or the tragedy of an undermined integrity,_Un- mea ntimeid he cou do with some more mone_ Y. happily, Mr. Hamish Gleave" winds up as ....F-In*nr-::=9292.1nner __...:dt-..__..,.,.1,_ ..v._._....V';.-. ml-umha ram .._.:..-......... Pi'l'92HlIl'! ....._.., .1:hie neither onehnu: nor thecther. -- -- ' - '1. W -E .J-ax.-ll , M g . _|_:=:fi.,__-'|'-{'1-:-Z-3 ' y ' .- 92 {*1-1..i. '~ .5 ,,..,_. 1 Q/92- _.{= §5;EB_1956 8 _, J I-.---'4'" . U QM!: /./I'./Pl/77?¢/:f;_;__ ._..--'"" u--"-"_-' '--"'lua"< -»#Lg1.3,:92_'1i:jku£-1" -"""'..'.-"1 lg Wash. Post and » ---p I _ V . ilivul-un-qq-1.-_-7 <" L. 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