WEDNESDAY, OCT. 5, 1955 THE BEDFORD DAILY TIMES -MAIL, BEDFORD, INDIANA PAGE ELETCt Diplomacys Treason Twins Bankers Hoist IpWarnirigs, But See No "Bust FORT WAYNE, Ind. cross section of industrial bankers are hoisting a few warning signals on credit terms but dont generally think an economic bust is close. The Industrial Banker, publication of the American Industrial Bankers devoted an entire extra section of its monthly issue today to 61 replies to the question: Are we headed for a bust? Forty-four of the replies were i i tic about the nation's future, at least in guarded terms. James L.
Dilley, an Indianapolis advertising executive who conducted the poll, concluded: I feel generally more encouraged about the long-range economic picture but agree with many of the experts that some caution should be exercised in regard to the short-range 'uture. Sees Weaknesses Banker Curtis Kendall of Mobile, said: We believe that a considerable segment of the American publie that should be buying good quality used cars is sporting new ones, believe there are serious weaknesses in the instalment credit situation as it exists today. Nothing down and forever to pay may lead us to disaster, warned Wiley W. Wood of Norfolk, Va. Are we headed for a bust? Of course we are, replied R.
G. Kirschmann of Johnstown, Fa. Thank goodness you did not ask me when. By REBECCA WEST (Written Expressly for I.N.S) (World Copyright, 1955, by I.N-S.) LONDON (INS) The fantastic policy of denial adopted by the British government in the Burgess-MacLean case, and the emptiness of its white paper on the affair, are explicable only if we suppose it has had to suppress a storm of scandal from breaking over Britain. When the Rosenbergs were sentenced to death they fought for their not so much for their own sakes as to establish what they regarded as the right of their cause.
Alger Hiss fought to prove his innocence. Klaus Fuchs and Nunn May, old party hacks and veteran technicians in espionage, did not fight at all and accepted conviction as the luck of the game. Not For Martyrdom But Burgess was a cynic. He was ik for martyrdom, nor would he, even if he could, have enjoyed the role of an innocent man. Innocence was not his style.
But he would not have accepted happily the luck of the game when it went against him. Detection would hurt his vanity, which must have promised him immunity until the end. Imprisonment would have been torture to his mercurial temperament, and exile a grave inconvenience to one who was living so happily in London. He would certainly have hit back at the society which for the first time in his life was crossing his will and he had time to work out a scheme of revenge. or at least three years, since the beginning of the Hiss case, it must have seemed possible that the axe would fall.
Burgess was witty, imaginative and unscrupulous. It would have not been beyond his powers to devise a plan whereby, if he had to pay for his treacheries, he would Everybody who visited the BBC at that time and came within the orbit of Burgess received a homily on the virtues of this person, who came to enjoy a wide reputation. Again: In 1941 Yugoslavia came into the war on the side of the Allies against Hitlers Germany. The Commander-in-Chief of the Yugoslav Army was a gallant soldier named Drazha Mihailovitch. After eighteen months or so Burgess and an unsavory group ot friends began to run round London spreading the news that Mihailo-vitch was a fascist and undeserving of Allied support.
The charge was a lie. Mihailovitch was as much a Fascist as President Roosevelt or Sir Winston Churchill, Lord Montgomery or General Patton, and long before the war he had sought out the leaders of the Yugoslav peasant parties to plan resistance to Hitler. But Burgess and his friends were nimble and industrious and did much to create the public opinion which permitted the Allies to abandon Mihailovitch and leave him to be captured and butchered by Tito. Many people knew that Burgess was a Communist because they saw him over the years pertormin, actions such as these, and also because he told them so. Uddiy enough, while MacLean, who was candid and loquacious by nature, kept an unbroken silence about his activities, the secretive Burgess was always babbling about them.
He practiced to perfection the old technique of the smuggler who, as he approaches the customs, slaps his stomach and says at the top of his voice, this is a pillow, and its stuffed with watches and is telling the truth, but gets weary smile from the customs officer and permission to pass. Burgess proclaimed his party activities so loudly and in such unsuitable company that nobody could believe he was speaking the truth. All this means that the Burgess and MacLean affair had its own distinctive feature, not to be found in any previous case of espionage. make sure that it would be accompanied by revelations designed to rock his country and to attempt to disgrace others in addition to himself. Encounter Complication In investigating the Burgess-MacLean affair the British Security Organizations undoubtedly encountered a serious complication.
It is probable they could not be certain that the people who had protected Burgess and MacLean were Communists. They undoubtedly discovered that many of these people were simply kindhearted persons moved by the two diplomats obvious psychological troubles; and many others were hom*osexuals drawn to them by their hom*osexuality. It was a complication which Burgess and MacLean cannot have planned; but that the two men were capable of planning complications on their own behalf can be seen by examination of the work they did for Communism. MacLean, the permanent college boy, permanently thrall to a secret the usual fraternity, seems to have gone on year in, year out passing to his Soviet contacts documents copies of which, as former Russian espionage agent Vladimir Petrov now tells us, are piled up in Moscow, too numerous to be translated and distributed. There is no hint he served the cause in any other way.
Loved Mischief But Burgess wore his Communism with a difference. The life of the Communist propagandist was meat and drink to his love of and he was here, there and everywhere at his work of fire-raising. Let us take three typical examples of his activities where he served the party interest and kept within the law. Just before the war the head of a provincial university in Britain made some broadcasts at the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) and was put in charge of the agreeable and intelligent young Mr. Burgess, who was then working there.
During the proceedings Mr. Burgess put before the protessor the idea it would be a good thing to have a course of lectures given at the university on a subject connected with war. The protessor agreed but could not think of a suitable lecturer. Oh, without a doubt the best man for that would be said Mr. Burgess.
But I may not be right. Ask Mr. so-and-so and Mr. such-and-such. But these gentlemen proved be of the same opinion, so gave the lectures.
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