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...GUNS OF NAVARONE (320 pp.)-Alistair MacLean-Doubleday...
...Trumpington, many writers cannot be kept from rope ladders; they love to swarm up the icy cliffs of fiction, creep up on reality in their rope-soled shoes and knock it out of commission with those knuckle-dusters. In the van of these shock troops is British Novelist Alistair MacLean, who in H.M.S. Ulysses (TIME, Jan. 23, 1956) showed his ability to zero in with a battery of heavy cliches, fieldstrip and assemble a character in the dark, and tell an exciting story. MacLean displays the same talents in his current operation, dealing with the eastern Mediterranean in mid-World...
...insisted that the government knew what it was about, and refused to divulge all he knew. But he did deny that Lang was being blacklisted solely for his wife's views. The House accepted his explanation. Britain was learning, only five years after Diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean took off for Russia, that security in the face of Communism is a problem more complicated than it had once been ready to admit...
Flat Liars. The statement said that the American-born Mrs. Maclean, who was pregnant at the time her husband fled, "arrived with her children in the Soviet Union in 1953." This made flat liars out of Russian leaders, up to and including Nikita Khrushchev, who have denied repeatedly, formally and informally, that they knew the whereabouts of the two traitors or their kith...
Apparently Khrushchev & Co. hoped to get some windfall out of parading Burgess and Maclean at this moment, hoping either to smooth the way for Khrushchev's forthcoming trip to London, or to muddy up the recent Anglo-American accord. Foreign Office officials have suspected Maclean's hand in the skillful phrasing of Bulganin's two recent "peace" notes to President Eisenhower. But the circumstances of the hotel interview indicated that, though they might be useful in phrasing messages, the Russians regard the two ex-diplomats as no more than propaganda puppets...