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* LA ake ‘ - t es Fa ‘ . 1 Dota 4K . . y an ~ ‘. wh - : s a a ree rs ro f. Sy _ Moscow fixed { a Vos . . my rh yk et a pag tery rr ns Sar nn ae if : i. sth 4 Was supposed to b aving other Job, ®. H When did you see 7 DRIBERG: yomala Maclean, . A day or two later, , BURGESS ; He was the next wf person I Bot in Vopeh [ith— not ause of any dee pict, but 1 had because perfectly him from people in America, discuss with him a memorandum | Far Eastern situation, Remember, he was head of’ the American Department of the Foreign Office, so he'd al- ready had this memorandum, It went to him through the’ machine. . The memorandum was / serious piece of work. I'q - Into it, strong terms, all the. fear and disgust I felt about the’ ; trend of American policy in the | ' Par t; I'm pretty sure I disc, or ‘oteq about the threat that 4 co y fepresented, That " yas Gi my mind a Jot at he OO re ed olny * mdon, and as 8 matter of fact innocent personal messages for © °. jE also wanted very much’.to _ I'd done on the dangers of the ~ anaes HOS a ut: . x Pe Poy — 4 we - ott A, . « ae fe, 4 + £ ed at w ore wry fe BoA Bet i — reed es TEINKING: YAIDTDRDUAUL UM DRORULAPA arg ETNA SAAT df was uncanny — oy 777 FIAT ADU | : E talked about all { this; and I can't teil |, : you what @ rellef it | was—to both of us, I think—to ; find that our views, the things r Woe were afrald of, the things : that made us angry. were identi. ; cal: not only about the Far | East and America, I mean, but ; on policy in general, | IIt was: almost—well, almost |. uncanny : I méan, we had both : been Communists at Camoridge, 4 but we'd hardiy seen each other | since, ‘ ; ‘Yet our differing knowledge and experiences had kept us : both Marxists' and we had - simultaneously, though sSepar-+' | ately, reached precisely the same. c§nclusions, . ot i ‘ t was, as I say, an immen 7 | r@lief and reassurance to fin! ; ! tilat one wasn’t, as it were, & : “ bonely thinker,” - Beet pas ,* Vd got on all right in-th | nara NT ff aa . - a . , f 7] : . ce . ball Soma al . ‘Tas “th JF Loe a x f TO pee % fk ly i were Tupning it now, So ,% pour all this out to, followed, I mean. it made’ Donald decide tg side his d “Was the natural person for me a ‘trus We sat talking on @ sofa out- Eastern Department, but by. thé time, unfortunately, there'd changes in personnel th: e.: ple I didn't‘ know so well. This talk we had, srising out™ _{.0f my memorandum, was really, -. + what Jed up to everything that. for instance, . .., He suggested we should lunch . ‘: together. We met at the Reform 2 i at the R TRAMLING: EL UTU CRU fs ES ' Those two men co Club; the dining-room was full. 80 We Walked along and lunched ? ULE TWENTIETH AA ha. . i . 8 soon as we ightful trou fr I'm being fol nomen oo the corner by the Carlton he pointed to two men and “Those following me... , They ch jingling their coins in a man-like manner “Idiots they are,” he wen th a sort of savage conte car even bumped into stopped with - Suddenly remembered 1 wa “That's when I first - their faces. After that put two different chaps -Ing the disappearance former Foreign Office offict : published on September ., 1P55, stated : “12 is now SO Rt eee ge ge ee On our way to the RAC., them quite often, of course.” |, Sure enough, there they were, Police- and looking’ embarrassed at having to follow. & Member of the upper Classes. '/- i two’ et Donald said: “Tmlin b he. on’ Club a ere + ' owed by the dicks.” | ~You know the corner I mean— i said, ; ange i t on, mpt. |: “They're so clumsy that their the back jj of my taxi the other day—it? & jerk because I! . to get something from Chatham ; House. 4 ‘Saw: they i; on” 3 [The White Paper “ Concern- ais,” 33,!: lear’ "that in spite of the precau ions * teken by the authorities 1 lgan must have become a » @ some timz before his ; Pearance, that he was u ering ac-i 292. are the people who are *' v