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H.M.S. ULYSSES (316 pp.)-Alistair MacLean-Doubleday...
...Ulysses crew are wooden, they are admiralty specification teak. Author MacLean, a schoolteacher who served five years in the Royal Navy, has brought to his first novel an ear as sharp as sonar. The Liverpool stokers blaspheme authentically, and about the story lies the fascination of precise technical information and service jargon-the grim grammar of war. After 20 months of the terrible Murmansk run, Ulysses is brought to her death at the guns of a hit-and-run German cruiser. Many of those who volunteer to buy the book will wish it could be compulsory reading in Russia...
...want of a middle name, New ' Delhi Correspondent Alexander Campbell almost lost a lap in his pursuit of Russia's carpetbagging Bulganin and Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS). Campbell's father had intended, 43 years ago, to name his first-born Alexander MacLean, but he forgot the MacLean at the christening. "Now," says our correspondent, "there are thousands of Alexander Campbells, and lots of them are journalists, including one who much annoyed the Burmese after World War II, allegedly by participating in a rebellion...
Thus, after more than four years of stubborn official silence, bumbling and evasion, Britain's government undertook to explain how Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean had managed to work as spies for Russia within the Foreign Office and then escaped untouched...
Calming the Clamor. Ever since the government published its inadequate white paper (TIME, Oct. 3), the press has clamored for more explanations. Who protected and promoted Burgess and Maclean? Who tipped them off that the jig was up? Who let them escape...