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{ RANDOLPH CHURCHILL in MOSCOW d-school-tie Burgessealls on me .® experience. I don't know the deputy niist his help. Insteadf I ast year at the w9Ty Conference at Blagk- chairman of the Communist pool F-had a very disagrie- ES ao I was not table to I arrived at a hotel 6 found that allotted a room without & batb: and a pretty shoddy I had been led on Intourist, a t elpful Government-o a avel agency . They moved me quite room at that quickly to the Nationa} Hotel, When I arrived in Moscow last Thursday I had ; almost equally unpleasant: arrangement. I had asked for a suite at the National, Hotel. where I had staye¢| in November 1045 in the bad pld | days under Comrade Stsjin. Instead I found myself in a very different sort of cara- anseras — tap Hotel a otel. ow this ostélry may s t the nh of the Ukrainians, park ie thinzs. but it was not sort of accommodatia appropriate for apn Eng journalist. Lord Northeliffe, in the heyday of the Dally Mail, once sacked a journalist because he had travelled third class. And rightly so. He felt that the fellow was letting the side down It turned out all right at ckpool because I was @ sonal friend of Lord Poole, * deputy chairman of .Party, He arrang t I should have a batil- EVENING STANDARD LONDON, ENGLAND FEB, 23, 1959 very much superior estpo-- hment. ; On Saturday evening | tting in my spartment. inding my own busiless with my secretary and inter- preter Miss Lidiya Dubinin- skaya. when the telephone Ings. A chap announc imself as Burgess and ast:s whether he can come and on me. I think that ls propvably actical joke, played by some her journalist. But I play if “dead pan” and say yes. m¢ around as s00D as it is nvenient. | Well, be does and ne? wearing an old Etonian tie. I know that it ia mot Mr. Macmillan because neither he nor I would perpetuate the #ocial solecism of wearing an old school tle in Moscow Well, there we are in the National Hotel—-and Burgess. we g his old Etonian tie, says to me: “I am atill a Communist and a homo- sexual” sul reply: “Go I had always t I expect that MI5. f om Burgess claims |? ve a View about this. Burgess further told m at he was thinking o ming back to England e his aged mother to who he speaks every week on the telephone. I warned him that the Attorney-General Bir Reginald Manningham Buller, might have a word or two to say about that . Burgess seemed fille well informed on Engl politics and claimed that be got & letter every week from his friend. Sir Harold Nicolson This may be an empty boast. 1 dop't ow: out I expect thar the troth may discovered TOP PEOPLE 1 asked Burgess bow he knew that | was staying at the Nationa) Hotel je said: “Well. lL went to the Ukrainian Flote! and called on my old friend [versch McDonald.” (McDonald works for Sir William Haley and is Foreign Editor of The Times sews- paper.) “McDonald told me that you had moved to the National” Burgess Knows « lot of Tor People wit read ‘THe Times. such as Mr Tom Dyziberg. who wrote @ book ut him, and Lady Pamela Birry and her husband. Mr chael Berry, editor-in- ief for Hfe of the Daly \egraph Atter nis seven long years pee pefore the war. would MOSCOW, MONDav! Ww. MON