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o for a propaganda ‘lead! to the Press for concealnent of these facts from - * the publics andto the briefing of the British and American delegates at the Paris preparatory conference, with special reference to the necessity of ensuring a breakdown of the conference on a pretext as little damging as possible to the moral prestige of the Western Powers and their credit a as seekers for peace. I have decided that I can discharge my duty to zy country only through prompt disclosure of this material to Stalin, whom I shall beg to release it at once, so that it may alert the British people, furnishing thea with | both the reason and the power to wrest control of their destiny from the wretches who have stolen it. , I discussed these matters with Burgess, whose concurrence with my appre- ciation of our resultant duty is complete. Before you, or His Majesty's Government, become aware of our absence from official duty, we shall have crossed the ‘Iron Curtain’ into the Free World. Our transit will be effected by June 6 at the latest. +s FROM AN OLD PAL OF MACLEAN. .