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Sete et iti, at yt. Be CT ines ee gio enlace Cy ce gs 2 a EMRE a a BO CPOE A RE CE et De eR USO Se SboT lad Soe = ' Te canton tea oy i ee re nt * might even be able to se , My s0n egain.. . 3. I -shoul cefiainly go io. Moscow to se him if possible... I can't g ngw because I am “not well, by na coun ee later.” oe . “ag ty "No “trace : "Bhe left her Piccadilly ho last Monday, a close friend s id Jast night. a ee She walked out ‘ot Arlington House .in the morning so dis- creetly that even the uniformed - porters on duty failed to get any t of what was happening. , £ The friend said: “She flew . from London Airport to Stock- . Russia.” ' Airways ‘spokesmen sald later . they could not find any. trace ot- & Mrs. Bassett on the ger liste for that day. ve Mrs. Bassett's friends’ in" London believe she will slay in, ‘ yRussia fora month, .. ‘FOOTNOTE : @ Return fare fp? Moscow is £160 178, 2 og. DONALD. EOGAR- (Express man-on-the- spot! a telephones from Moscow, Friday Lyte TUST how and at what ke point Mrs. passen-* ‘holm, and on “ftom there wo, Bassett. oy reached Russia are matters ° of speculation in Moscow, One - report ‘says that she arrived at the Vnukovo Alrport, outside Moscow, at he _ begin ning of last week, 4 .. She was not met, it ts said, , by her son, Russian Foreign ' Office officials took charge of her _ | and whisked her away in a large” Zis limousine to Guy Burgess's - home on the fringe of Moscow." ; But if she Aad - landed at” : Moscow there was always the : r chance that she might have’ eengecognised by some Britis v merican . diplomat . urgalist. . could easily | have con ja Sahiga, which a stagi C rol .en route for or Moscow. F a, te i TS + a ET i Se z ry on . C2 irty a ‘the’ ‘South? | e could have got off ther an been met by her son. The | she could have pone bs by train tq. .Moscow or—wh anocthe? ° ‘theory ‘here tonight—have gone . for a holiday to one of the , Summer- resorts on the Black a. The official’ British : attitude - here nintet seems to be that. no veenot VERY i iy: . tren aier’ all the revelations ! of the case over the last lew: vears the attitude is as if Guy! | Burgess. was stationed in the’ embassy here’ and his mother ‘ just happened to be fe sige over’: have a look at the sights. ol’ Moscow, I The only’ British family Mrs, } , Bassett is likely ta meet is tat | ‘of Maclean and his wife who s “live near Guy Burgess. ‘- 1 th families inhabit counpry ' tnges outside Moscow. d.- nr u rstand they do their wq¢rk such as it is—translations gnd ' -adyice on Western pony" om ' their homes, » aor NTA eal cars e eT tee ng: II. would I | Lady. “ADY MACLEAN, mother ot Donald - Maclean. | ay , Propped up by pillows in , bed ot her Kensington flat yesterday, ‘and” heard ‘ the' 2 news that Mrs. Bassett. is In } MoScow. *) 5: d Yes,. I should have liked ‘to “0 “ 4 too,” she said. believe I : ‘ fourney, e e MY have fNcen” in. “hospital “and: ' had a kneecap removed.” It’ ‘has left. me quite lame, ry tired ; veral. of ‘my friends. have. . eae the’ .would” could much * T. and. sked wh I don't go" to. Toscow. understand it is: ulte easy | pow. for | tourists, “+ ‘cee. Bre ee a -'there are- nos "? restrictions © or: “difficulties” about: ‘eoing. But... “1 have never been ‘in a plane: : “in my life" * Lady Maclean added : ae nevet - -met'-Mrs, Bassett. . Guy Burgess, but. not. ¥ “well. I don't. remember mue -about him, “But I do-not.|“1t is five years ‘since Donald a went-—a long time, The baby,’- » Melinda, is five years old now. ‘ “Y should like to see her and . the boys—they stayed with me. - quite a bit, you know, after. their father left. : f course, I hear quite oft n, and my son seems well” happy, and the family too, Jte’. never mentions his work — but ° - then, he never did.” : aw