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a) CE UU Len Dan ht ( ¢ y ' ”, ey Ge sah, es dad ‘ them all except Edén and J : : _ Bees . ; ngillan (then Foreign Secre + an SL . . i. “Who, given the em a ; . wo, , [they were in and the concocti { ,, 2 common with millions of other B ttish’ a unk 1 Sdvisers," thought: mote ates 7 ler Br “newspaper * readers I’ had’ foun || . mow. ne Burgess-Maciean story one of the: most fasc & news stories of th | them to have been Naat ores TY. *¥ 7 es can ian ; . One morning I was’ working Doubly s0, for it Wags not : a are in my Bloomsbury flat when the niy & story of pursuit and [Ef hae AB UT DRIB, G: ; sclepuone : rat ot it docs, ail ‘tradition Imost in the Classic Hh. toni ce itere. tai been” a “Yournalise ana * | eee interruption, 4 at ee, ‘The operator asked if I could} ‘st Ull Bis adult years.” From 1942 te 1955 , S; it also had & much was MP. fer Maiden, Esex. Ha le a ‘de : ' take @ personal call from Mos- it illustrated nace in that member ef the National Executive Committee . cow, at once a voice cama’ Personal aft Vividly, in the OF the Labour Party—is new Vice-Chairman, through, clearly ‘and audibly ; telllgent and gifted one ioe Now 51, he le suther of s controversial ' “Hullo, Tom... ; This is Guy.” Plight of ei men, e biography of Lord Beaverbrook-—way formerty | We talked for, perha ten; caught in the confusion wot William Hickey of the “ Bally Express,” minutes ; I was excited to learn 3 contradictions of mi d- Hit Burgess story ts a frankly partisan work, ' that a eae eg 0 be 8 wer _Sentury Britain, with Its J VN many ot bis opinions the Dally Mail” | fulfilled. Further cables cand: | Chronic lack of philosophic sivagrees + . . but prints it none-the-less une telephone calls followed: and! purpose and its “mixed ” | ftnored. Differing opinions cannot obscure the : on the evening of August 10 I O§ mud ar Gengtat It i the major news scoop of ,the | arrived in Moscow. “Eee mu died—economy, decade. ned ihe! | t not particularly * ats j Was : , ee ee ' —. t Guy was not: ; “So: : 8 e wou ’ 5 4 relation between East and welt : lan OED porte AA a. T had been unable to let him‘ ’£ was im ulsive can be discussed adequately th - 0 know exactly which plane. I ught was rant was ito ; Se ont TEE = cOld-war propaganda terms clear’ my macne ae a Red Her- |. Was coming by, ‘ at it were @ matter of absoly ring I'd tell you to come tomgr- | But 1 took the precaution, NE phrase lingered in blacks and whites, a contest row and &nd insist on Jt. | after the lone slow dinner of : my mind from the tween devils and angels ? If I did thn {t could be ar- ‘/ caviare ang bortsch and all the: millions of wordar Some years ago I had met ‘ ranged at once. -. restofit at the National Hotel: xzitten about Burgess ang Guy Burgess on several - “My reason for not pressing | of posting & letter addressed } Maclean, They had been: occasions ; he was at thet time | the matter too hard, however, ig jto0 him at the poste-res' tay Gescribed as “split men.” House S, Fepresentative at the ° thar ae’? Seid in my “State | address which was all that had Was shis meant to be & term House of Commons, responsible “ ment’ the only thing I am {p- I ascertained that as for of reproach, or of Contempt? for the ° Week in Westminster " | terested in is (not my personal local letter cost 40 ko: ka ig If so, why? ‘In a split world, ¢ not the members of Parliament who 4 tions and humanist—a humanist tn one broadcast for him. | provement, broad sense of the word, @ man A few weeks after the Moscow || of all tes vith the well-being Press conference, “noticing thoy i TWELPING: | - programme, and I wes one of i Case but) Anglo-Soviet rela- Iked to the main post fice;, thelr ‘possible im- | “(open all night): got the right ; sjamp by. sign-language,” since’ of all his felio — , Several newspapers had been fore the lady at the counter had n@:. sgrily feel condictm tmncres Several Bet in touch with hige |! iUNNUonwnmaemuruuey elise’ and They ee ee 2 A ; 4bd doubts within him 3 : simply by writing to hint at the j "+ But would it? d posted the letter in what ' Breatest issue of our times, the |*Tote to Does National Hotel, Moscow, I also, | oked the right one of sever oblions “that a eeetal man, bow on @ casital impulse and against’ “QML HN STE rea all jabelled in indeciphe i$ue—and — particulariy the |it seemed, rather Jong" odds, “Ww OULD these causes be | able Cyr: He gia I asked if there were any |i renew nt: sy | le slow luncheon feeling = chance of my being able to tn- ‘Sbout my case fa controversy rat er depressed about’ the © helped in any way by | Next day I was’ eating my": terview the whole’ “I don’t mind any amount of | whole enterprise and wondering ~. 1 1 ta story, and answer the still un- . ing bad © wrong, 4 answered questions, if T came to ! Can Ne ey Roout Anglo-Amert. | if something Preemie "youn Osco {as I am sure you will under- | maitre @hote] called me to. the © can and Soviet policy. but I am | when vate SPE AKING ee ‘|) Stand even if you don’t agree) | telephone, : wo : re ns cio utely bored stiff “and It was Guy —ang he Was - RHO” yo gtokened y the persona) aspects | speaking from anot er hotel, :~ EAT ewe [ of this case. 50 yards away, where he had a: tas" In favour ‘|: d calling the { flat (or. a8 it Would be called in“: ' ta : E 3 a . . ' Engiand, & suite). vee td a 2, AN | forced: - “publish the ° white This is the Moskva Hotel—fin’ EEKS | after | Paper against their better otel not used by tourists for . ; judgment to what Disraeli omce estern -Correspondents, -; Hut sald about people who behated hiefly by Soviet citizens: qd." in Buch a way: ‘1 know of fictal foreign delegations, - [) +, entity more despicable thad a pe Gee | ¢: Patrician in a panic.’ ! : . . That seems to me to go or | .