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- | SPY?) hat’s not a nice word SAYS THE COLONEL Express Staff Reporter RS. BASSETT, tile “mother of Guy - Burgess, heard about the Foreign Office statement in her flat. at Arlington House, overlooking London’s Green Park, Her husband, Colonel J, Ri ,, Bassett, did the talking, “After all," he said, “if the Foreign Office say have, it is no good fying in éhe face of what they think. don't believe, “myself, wht. hey think, We don't want ko ay anything in mitigation. ust. let the thing run its ovn ourse, ar what they - 1 4 VAGUE word ‘spy’ is not a qnice ward. It is not the word at al] that I should apply to khis cabe inf any sense. If the Feéréeign Office Like to think they were definitely doing some dirty work they must, think it. “The Foreign Office statement. Js -very vague. They Jush believe this and that. “In view of what has transpired ‘ dn all these years they have come t6 the cenclusion that they were actually in. contact with. the wrong people, “They might. be in contact with people. These contacts are. very often foisted on to vyou.. “A lot of fellows at that age think they can change word politics and perhaps make the world a better place to live in. . These ideological ideas are at the root af the whole thing. CHANGE “Mind you, I never had the skghiest suspicion fram Guy that there was anything going op at all. - “Bet I do think that a lot of f@iiows of that sort consider things should be put right somehow and I think probably that was at the back of their minds, and I would not say they have not been doing a bit of «We See a-certain change in aititude lately. “The whole thing is ridiculous. Neither of these fellows was in any sort. of position to have access to top-secret’ documents. “They are not things that you can bandy about from room to room, carry aboyt, and take in a taxicab to the Russian mbassy. “Wie have no statement, officgal oy unofficial, We are absolutdly inl the dark except for what .ayipears in the Press."