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- -s Ly may have tolé Churchil ! -« REMINDING © * ‘ “ fg the rumoi sumouy: then current ir; aT 7 Tpgue “and “Paris” that,’ ¢ ot wo pe oi j - "G@stapo were plannin * t put what now ha . This ‘reaction to the ep Le. i , , ashassinate the oa Amb fa ’ x ‘wilat how t. Y \ r indicates the extent to whi i ‘sador in Prague, so that what: as been forgotten how ‘Would be presented to the world +) i o ,, 28 & Czech crime copld BS tae ys YAS a Cogue bell i “\PTER* some” further * Exchanges be ended: i @ conversa ir saving : 7“ Well, Mr~Burgess a % this war then Fou’ and I—but ° L 4 See aa A Guy's analysis of this rumour’ | Mee @ (which he had submitted to the, | g . think thee wine ‘ p Secret Service) was that it w. I think the wi give” me a 1 ; & deliberate Nazi propagand of some employed again : ; and fobat shall be. . Cloak designed to give the im a + “Now I want to give you a a¢ # pression that, Germany wante + fend waa rt book of mine to celebrate this: . ; woe onversation which h i ie : i anae that arte a ained me. It ts 2 voltae wis : if + HE world was Tk zc : (tt tht ve ¥ speeches eaifed 9 by. my ton. j r* - towards’ ~ catastrophe, 441 : - “tended to at i, andolph.” e 1. " and this man—in bis :} : Pp ore thee supe _He went off to ‘another rola! ' guest's estimation, even then,» ae Poat wultler is ~ gages ee one of the greatest Englishmen * a * pote thew 7 : t “a A his tlme—sat alone, wearing: ; sabe the word 4, | te book ena Te Aron ad 8 blue boller-sult in the book-": ‘ani his‘ own 7? : ge eral staf J | t Covenant. “T must .w. east A were Jess ” "veady: “to Aight init,” he said”. He wrote: .* a he | Guy” Burgess, to confirm’ ; “admirable sentiments, Winston! fs. Churchill, September, 1938." ined study of his country house, ' | with no other callers, no mes" sengers “ bringing ‘ urgent dis-, - patches, no importunate secre-:; A yl point which Churchit’ 4 . tarles with papers for him to: veloped was one that ha uzzled h * . ign ; during the hours*) ae happened Fe sia ie | He added that if ne got Job” read or sign; during ths heoml am what they call an elder - 4m the coming war, and !f Guy. a yer sation. + brought him the book, he would ;, , remember < their conversations: and would find him- something * * ‘worth doing In the war. Guy. ‘did not, Jn fact, take: advant- 4 page of the offer, yo ¢ statesman, and on occasions like | this such people as I are con- sulted. I was consulted, Halli. fax (then Foreign Seorgtary) showed me a communiqué tha oe, as & giving his people to ‘but yh OD i ce _- lasted ~ tb er orld copyright cn telephone did*. eserved, reproduction: | - "Rot ting, once | a nn é n whole or [In part .’:]-. ure nybody #601 versation | . * Fleas. : strictly forbidden =) | Guta | i “1 was signed with his own | {Guy himself’ added ‘the w fad y would be: f hand. It said that if the *“Munich,” in penell, benedth | put Guy hed 8 f Czechs fought, France would ion for Churchill. _ Baht, and Britain and Russia, ; special veneratl both as an opponent of appease: ; i ment and as an historian. (his;.] bP ; Lette Wing friends often took;: him to task for this deviation} the word “September.” It] is’ _plways dificult’ ‘to assess 8; ! Mstorice” importance” of events ® ivanile they, are. stil happening. 2 “Now that. Was alt ht: “Bue! ‘what happened ? When the com- Parad Po ‘muniqué was published. Bonnet ‘# ighteen years after Septem-? a pret: ood varbal:” 3 + denounced it as a forgery : he! ‘g ber” 1938 +if- seems: incredible 4 gti as and he’. made / ime! ; c Bald that it had ‘never been “note of the conversation 1 imes issued by the Foreign Offica, and. * meant nothing. «7 Jw * * mediately after leaving Cha i well; bué 7 have no doubt that’ < that anybody should “then have {Supposed ‘that - he‘ might come # a“ I have loved France all m cite, " Churchill went on. my * what has happened to them ?, y Where 1s thelr Foch ?. Where. is, thelr, Plemenceau,?,” ) a 1 be ’ Guy g’sald he*® knew ‘some’ “Fren politicians, and that .; ; r was patriotic enoukh,’. . but had no real po er. F) n't now, I don't knof,’. »Clurchilt muttered, morosely, ., i. ie ae day ,.need-"reminding“ of"-the } things” ‘that! had; been ‘done in ; 3 éthat month,’ PROBE ; Br After’ so” many ’ years.- 100, = pang vafter”, all that has: “passed | since''1938 in the lives of. the’ fixe men who talked in ent on: that. day,:the reader not old j to remember clearly the, Political moods and. personali-{ es Of those tlmes may fin s. rtaln - tneongrulty m. such} & gE hurchill ‘has’ been ‘exaltealto phe ic status § Burgess 1s. a et * there are & few errors in : . verbatim quotations from, whet | a + Churchill said to him.. j equally “nave no d wever, that his account is *~ shantlally correct | it seems to. com fy character” : a Churchill conversation: { piece of the Munich period. oe a Be} one. A