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en aye a ARE ARUP ge ne eg ARE TPR mR RET ne Aa to TERME SHB - | a < a, & at { Se ell c : lt . . er Bale, ote rahe ‘eet AM yong! F fn i ¢ ‘ roils THEORI ES: SO: ‘FAR . ‘ iE aaa - He indicated that he would be} “ARE “WRONG prepared to furnish the Forgian ot 4 o Office with any _informalion _— ari oyyrren five. years ‘Guy Burgess | has” “cleared up. ee ee the Mystery of the Missing Diplomats, which | Burgess denied to Mr. Driberg f - created. ‘the greetest, ‘sensation this‘ country. has. Sl Be ray known since the war. ~~ In month-long talks with. ‘Not o spy | c Mr. Tom Driberg in Moscow ‘he has told the’ fbll.| mr. priterg nimseit says’ he's . ' story — HOW hq and Donald Maclean left their | Spence shay Buses was ott “T do not myself agree with the * Foreign. Of f i ic e . Under strain: 4 action he took,” he says. :“ AS & id k he t sever ' ; Soci alist, I believe that one ‘should Each morning aspen ‘ slay one’s own country) an esks to ge to the urs with Burgess taking notes work for Socialism by whatever, i the evenings he wrote the firs means are available. ‘ < Soviet capital and draft af the story, chapter b “ But I recognise his right to io WHY. | " chapter, and next morning began ' what he did ; iF know that he acted , 4, " _ by ead ie to Burgess what he. on high principle : and , I respect » Mr. Driberg, former “ 1 think 1 got pretty well the. Many people, of course, take a ‘Socialist ‘MP. -for the |. wnoie storw" he says. “How very diflerent view, of Burgess's But whether ne is regarde ins much more important — the: aitor, Sp¥, or just an uns ne tory member of the British | course of policy_which made : reign Service whose resignation “working withthe British as demanded, he remains one of a . . Forelan Office an intolerable, the two principals in an episode : of post-war his' . “girain for them. for them i Their disappearance influenced “as for the route they tock— Anglo-American relations and had well, all the past speculations I the widest political repercussions. | - therefore, be no + recall, W were compe wrong. I ffe can, * ‘ now, kn just which way they dow « '‘Maidon Division of | , Essex,’ is to tell the ‘+, , Burgess fale in,. , the | it Daily. Maile "Hundreds of ‘columns have been printed about! Burgess and Maclean in! the newspapers. ~~ ‘ ‘They have been the sub-" ject of a White Paper and of” debates in both Houses of. Parliament. oe - et * Dozens of theorles have peen | advanced. Numerous investi: ; gations have been made. Yet until now the known facts are surprisingly few. © Tt was :known that they had crossed fg§m Southampton to St Malo on Me night of Friday, May 25, 1951. .@ was known that they , had gon Rennes, In Brittany. | After thi myblery. * and wity they went there and— 4 about the interest and im- portance of Burgess's version of the great post-war mystery of the vanish ng diplomats,. at Apart from the preliminary work he was able to do in Moscow. Mr. Driberg brought back with him ‘a vast amount of material which has still ta be collated. i“ The Dally Mall wilt keep its readers Informed on the progress of this work, and Mr. Driberg’s story will be pub- shed at the earliest po ible: ate, Subsequently, it | will pear In book form, de atch the Daily Mal] more detail “7 also know the answer to’ the question often asked: Was thelr departure carefully planned in concert with the Soviet authori- ties, or was it a & ur-of-the- oment adventure ? e answer Thay, surprise many. people." a ‘ Ready to report Mr. Driberg found, Burgess looking well. He was &till wear- ing # British sult and usually his Ola Etonian tie. He seemed healthier, steadier, less nervy than in the old days, but was as untidy as ever,. His. wit,. too, was sti kecg. Abked in a television ‘interv Ww whebher he had made a reportjto| Foreign Office, Mr. Drib a that mat fe had not been, as : = ila te ‘yat : TEU SY eg AP Pa rete ORT ae Aa apical SR te ee ietoanR cn mae TR MEA 8 RB uy. RES revealed t the ull : stqry in his fat in M a T saw. him there’ almost, every” daq for a month,” said rr Driberg on hig tome to London last: “week-end, eg Tea Nap aes Cy ne RE sepa gpg Ee me ee it