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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 7
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GU ao .
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o! Me. Tateen..
ONG
~ _ Caused Recall
‘Of Diplomat
One of two Rritish diplomats:
Who have vanished mysteriously |
in Europe was disclosed yesterday
fo have been relirved as second!
secretary of the British embassy |
in Washington this Spring because |
nf spesding complaints against him;
an Virginia,
He is GF. De MRurgess, who
{has been’ awaiting reassignment |
[to a new past in the British for-!
jelgs service,
The story ef Burgess’ Virginia}
Jndventures was disclosed yester|
day by Governor Battle, affer]
jpews dispatches from Fngland |
‘had referred fo the Governor's |
[rote in Burgess’ tecall from Wash-}
j ington.
Traveling in a high-powered,
automohile frum Washington to:
Charleston, S.C, last Februa
28 Burgess wes stopped three
by police on charges of
spending RO to 90 miles an hour.
[Bach time he claimed diplomatic
[inmumnits.
{Advised of the incidents, Battle
;Weate @ Jeiier to Jonn F. Sim-!
pMons, chief of protocol in the!
tState Department at Washington ¢ ns
j The Governor did neat ask for Bur-' f°
ess’ recall ov for disciplinary ac- arr aae
{ion ul ed Not REcoRN=S
“Needless for me to say, we
want to extend every courtesy to 136 OCT 8 195t
diptomatic representatives of
friendly nations, but T cannot and
witt not continue to countenance
uiter disregard of life and prop-
erty on our highways..."
|. Battle also enclosed an affidavit
by dames A. Turck, of Carthage, J (eet az Cust Ls
N. ¥.. who said he was accom: Cht a gif
panying Burgess te help in the! G7 P- SY
lariving’ Turek reported he was
jdriving at the time of the {hird
[specding eharge, on UL S, Route!
{3X in Prince George County.!
(Earlier, with Burgess driving,
ithey had been stepped by Static
poles om U, S. Route 7 near
Wendbridge and near Ashiand,
‘Turck xaid he protested they!
ao were going too fast, but Burgess oe
ze “kept telling me to step on re I ee 7
and that they had diplomatic im-| G i ;
othe State De a an aL
® Slate Department relaye: - a
Batile's Jeticr to the British ens- o PO teense
bay. On Aprit 18 the embassy - i Oe ie
reqdicd that Burgess was heing re- / yy RoR
a calfd to London and ssetd_aot t
be bent back to Washington
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