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1s enmemiss sei thst he had no knowledee of any Communist sympathies on the a of BURGESS excevt his "warm endorsement" of the Spanish Lovalists (which ain does not na consider to be nro-Comnunist in the light of the thinking of that reriod) ani knows of no connections which BURGESS could have had with Soviet esriomre, MMMM said that he recalled BURGESS in that period (1537-21938) as a nerson who was given to excess in drink and who was trvineg very desperately te be "one of the croun", meaning the litererv circle in which sig ct =i traveled. g@M@Bl said he felt a kind of pity for FUEGESS because he was @ confirmed socia] climber snd pretty obvious in hie tactics, In this same vein and includine the vear 1947, when last saw BURGESS in London when P' was working for the Eritish Foreign Office, SM recalled that BUS alwars wanted to be “or the insidet insofar as significant noliticel events ard ectivities were concerned, next § in.1947 when he went to and to vi FUSGESs wee working “or tre tist Foreim Office then. wana stated at this noint that PLITESS wes known to be a homosexual, Fe did not consider tris to be unusutl, adding thet even if this condition were ~erersl]y known to BURGESS's frienis and envlovers of thet neriod it would not have made much difference ° to _MeLomosexuality on the part of a nerson such 3s F not te considered unusual in the London of that reriod. In this connection QUEM docs not feel that BUPGESS's homosexuality would be a weakness whick could be used to advantaré by the Soviets. He repeated th-t he knew of no rossible Comintern connections which PURSISS micht heve had and stated that it was irconceivatle to hin that the Soviets would ever choose a rerson such es FIURC to work as an esvionare agent, His reason for savinr this was that Blt S's drunkenness and enotional instebility were things whicl: were well know, and very real, Secondly, he cannot ime~ine BURGESS enragine in any clandestine activity for anv vrolonged reriod of time without wentine to let someone know of his ectivities, @MMMWNMM said he did not know and never met any of BURGESS's relatives ani mver recalls BURGESS sreekirr of hone or fanily. He does net know what FURGSSS'S financial onditior wee tut assumed he was comfortably situsted since he recalled roine te B'RGESS's arsrtnent on several occasions in 193€ and apain in 1947 and found it to be well furnished, With rererd to his first neetine with FURTESS in 10.7 Sy recalls t both he and F SS pot verv drunk torether. Ke does not recall] SURSSSS scavine anythine atout his jot with the Poreim Office which was thdiscreet. @@UMMMiM@MBY did believe that PURGESS at the time of this meeting (1947) seoned to be cushine his nervous enerry to extrene limits.