From the pages of the South China Morning Post this week in 1955
The blame game continued, with the Daily News hinting that British diplomats Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean may have been responsible for the United States losing the 'fourth biggest war in its history' in Korea.
It said US military leaders, including General Douglas MacArthur, suspected that the Chinese Communists were tipped off that General MacArthur would not be permitted to bomb Manchurian bases if they entered the Korean war.
Senator James Eastland, chairman of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, had a hunch that the tip, if there was one, was passed to the Chinese by Burgess and Maclean - the British diplomats who vanished behind the iron curtain.
Burgess in 1950 was the British embassy's second secretary in Washington, while Maclean held down the American desk at the British Foreign Office in London.
The brother of the Dalai Lama arrived in New York seeking American citizenship.
