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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 23
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glimpse behind the acenes of the’ |
highest piutocracy, aid “nothing; |
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* Gharp, : Aichdrenon on Sou a
"Bastern Europe, and’ ‘Mr. tom
Wyilie, Private Secretary tothe -
Permanent Under-Secretary: at -
ithe War Omice. Guy went to.
ermany - to study conditions °
Naturally, in order “that his
companions should not be em- .
barrassed’ or their inquiries -
‘unduly restricted. he did net.
-advertise his Left Wing views]:
to friends who said “But w
on earth are you goin fa to Mi iT
po ee ?” he replied
€, such Vague evasion wie i
ne may as well see, if there's |.
‘ ything: in it." ¢
is single episode. ‘seems to!
“hdve been the origin cof the:!.
‘puzzling allegation t at he was +!
‘at this time expressing Nazi
sympathies. saeyt
f and ‘the further “aitlegation |
fthat such sympathies were ex-? |
pressed by Order of the Soon .
‘munist Party. and that he went;
to Germany as a Communist |
aeent, ee particularly wide of; i
i em "singe the only organi-
ps8 WOT "inter bast ‘?L. way ing
this mission . ae a het Foreign
Relations Coupell of the Church
“England, jof which Arch-:
08 Shar? WAS @A Member. |
those who took pa
ere visit. bad’: ‘ever ‘had an
derness towards Naziam, hb
st. nave. been. de ively cured
tee agente 6 *
Sea ei a
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pe Uae.
foyment Mad.
@ns.” cur
BL only by:
pie pa rations
for war... :
'’The Tory
NLP,, the arch--
deacon, the
War Office offi-
elal and Ouy
cial,
Lall agreed ‘on this ‘assesament,.
Fand conveyed it to all whom
: #y met on thelr return:
l
i
b
tween them, they may have
ad some alight effect-—not:
? @ough—in offsetting the offi-
velal attitude expressed in the
‘term “appeasement " and the
“extreme ’ admiration for Hitler
.sedulously propagated by a few
ascist aristocrats. — :
At about the same time the
-Tepresentations made on his be-
Fhalf at The Times and the
(B.B.C. began to bring results,
He worked for a month on trial
Vat The Times as a sub-editor ;
pthe experiment was sasistncuny
to neither party. : \
a “INSTRUCTION s
ee “He makes a change ;
suade him and Pem- :
“broke ‘that he ought-to be @
Igliow of it said that it would ,
Aid bo get him a job on ine:
o., rang up: Mr. .now'
ss Ceci) Graves, a senior
‘FAB.C. executive, OF course, he.
“got the job.
He went ‘first to’ the staff
training school directed by Mr.”
Geraid Beadle (now head of.
B.B.C. television) and late.
M:. ‘ ATebte, Harding, + 24. :
After a. course here ne foined °
jthe ‘Talks Department ; which |
provided | some outlet for ols in- |
terest th | “octal: questions he; |
aha Imctanam i
WAS (Pub in-charge for instance : |
2
rs
‘of a, series of vroadcasts on the |
hen rimly topical’ auegon of ; '
yputrit One aah s™
This: shad? originally - * heen|
planned as @ harmless instruc-:
onal series on the choice and :
rcooking of f hat eee jl
: Guy’ who ‘hed been < reading
poy. d-Orr, they
ean't our: rion -_ and rer the
Foharacter of the series radically,
changed so-that sa broadcast . [
ie dealt with such sublects as-
the condition of the unemploved |
fend “thalr’. families -;and “the:
meagre “subsistence ?
thought“ adequate’ by. |
stry of Bea af gt dh fe ea’?
When“ Hitlers occuple
phineland, ‘Guy Sew:to Par
m2" bls cl Rehere
; that move tent
_ dondon.
t
- R. GM. TREVELYAN. '
who had tried to per-. ’
“
a
ee
: ad decided “a ‘@ majorit
mly one -no
nates but nat th the ‘vo
; vould have been -yery differen
fit had been possible to eet ae
. S88urances of suppo! rc drom,
t 2 British Governme: ent."
r He Tecelved aeta
graphic account e
, Sions' within eae oe
“the positions taken,, by big
(Various members," cr as
“Jearned that the French Cadiz i
tle;
was astonished to recelve from : q
the same friend a sum of mon ;
sufficient... 0 ; cover : his. Ee
: expenses. ©
~' One “of the “things "Guy. “ald
» at this time was on the occasion
of the visit to London of the’
. Czechoslovak quisling. Reniein.;
Through & iz iend, Whe , Was
working as a telephone gperator a
‘ at Henlein’s . hotel. he; oe
a list of ali the. aon
oe Sake a Hea
) Longen guy" wae” by,
” ‘at in- fabrly’* Ere-
uént Louch wilh the
“‘triend L “the Secret Service:
’ through whom his information:
about the French Cabinet's:
| attitude to the Rhineland crisis’
“‘had’” been** 50.
“ Yewarded,. .
AS the crisis “drew near’ he.
Bae @® number .of visits to 4;
aris, where -one.of his con- %
- tacts was M. Edouard rene
associate of, Daladier.'
‘On behalf * “of: Pfeiffer ” on
unexpectedly *:
“carriea letters to‘an unofficial
intelligence organisation . which :
supplied information to
, Chamberlain himself and to sie. “4
‘Horace Wilson,, head of. the ig
‘Civil . Service and « Chamber: 4
‘Jaln's éminence grise.. A
These letters. were in effect’ 3
rivate communications | from. :
aladier . Chamberlain >
* neither of teem knew that, on
the : way, Guy would call at 8 al
, fiat in: the St. Ermins -Hotel, i,
“ Westminster, meet & man theres?
and wait while # ine. letters. were.
‘Photographed,,. ay <r
ety? pay fa ‘4 Q
Driberg: Pia cap ha nS a
shortly at 7 Wetder ;
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