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CANBERRA, Australia, Feb. 12--Vladimir Petrov, the former Soviet spy chief in Australia, said today Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean lied when they asserted they never were Soviet agents...
...reason behind Cole's reappraisal was a series of moves by the U.S. Government to ease housing credit. Explained Under Secretary of the Treasury W. Randolph Burgess: "The threat of overexpansion has subsided." Following the increase in the repayment period of FHA-and VA-secured home loans, the Federal National Mortgage Association (known colloquially as "Fannie May") last week announced a "mortgage repurchase" plan that will free more money for home loans, get more banks and other lenders to use Fannie May's services...
...Friday, May 25, 1951, two British diplomats, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, took the 11:45 p.m. boat from Southampton to St. Malo, France, and disappeared in the direction of the Iron Curtain. Last fall Her Majesty's Stationery Office issued the official story of their defection (TIME, Oct. 3). The report's half-truth was accepted as a polite fiction. Now Novelist Richard Llewellyn (How Green Was My Valley) seems to offer some fiction as the impolite truth...
Soviet emissaries lead him into a web of indiscretion with their caviar, theater tickets, and Paris dresses for his wife. And there is also the Burgess counterpart of this story-Kevin Chalmers-whose chichi accent is cruelly transcribed: "I'd just had about four gallons of a positively toxic firedamp called a Gibson ..." Chalmers is not only a drunk who has been kicked out of the British embassy in Washington (as was Burgess), but a pervert and a brawler. Chance, security officers, and their own folly put him and Gleave in the same boat, headed for anonymity and dishonor...
...Treason. It is debatable just how "true" Llewellyn's analysis is. But there is no doubt that Mr. Hamish Gleave points to a serious troubling in Britain's soul. And it again raises the haunting questions which the official report put this way: "First, how Maclean and Burgess remained in the Foreign Service for so long, and second, why they were able to get away...