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{quiet village ‘gee CONTINUED FROM. , PAGE ONE going to.the Foreign Office, !s aged 40. - ‘In cont pos the Club. * Recalled in May’ Burgess’s first post abroad WAS last August, ss Second Secretary in Washington—@ post formerly heidjoy Maclean, He was recalled in ‘The reason, said a United day, was a complaint of speeding made by Governor Battle of West Virginia. Burgess liked action. One got his acquaintances eald: “ Guy yas ‘one of these chaps who i whether he was going to Wash- ington or for 8 walk in St. James's Park.” Until last December, Burgess’s mother and stepfather, Colonel J. R.. Bassett, lived af ‘Oakhurst House, a mansion in 17 scres of grounds at East Woodhay, Berks, ‘They sold the estate and went to live at a fist in the West A friend with whom Mrs. Bassett | Corresponded said last night: ” Mrs. Bassett was the widow of. a former eutenant-commander, | She wrote to tell me that she was . sailing to America on April 1, to! See Guy, who was then in Wasb- | jngion. 2 . BON. his’ family lived here,” uy paid frequent, visits, and fer mostjof the time he spent here fe lived in a, cottage cata : . cut quite 4 ot