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The two dis- : _ Were like two similar triangles sud- "appeared on an alcoholic fugue, vegan in the Press, three telegrams denly superimposed. ‘When Donald }..t0 wander about like Verlaine and ‘Mived! ‘one from Guy Burgess ‘met this Wberator of trresponsibili- /; Rimbaud and to start @ new life o his mother in which he said ‘ties, when Don Quixote found his ther. 1e was embarking on a Jong Sancho Panza, there was bound to ft This fits in with Donald's charac: Mediterranean holiday: and_ two be mcombustion = 04 cnt BT Hele said fa have disappeared yom Maclean, to his mother -:!. ” 4 re aa ena eae Maclean", rhe how was thelr association | in Switzerland and been found liv- ind his wile set memage whieh , xePt secret? I think myself that; ing quietly: in the next village. ie signed with a childhood , they ‘must have renewed the Cam-/:Again,. he once remarked to & ees ine wrote: “Hed. btldge friendship in the summer of friend that he wished he could we unexpectedly, terribly | 1950, during Maclean's: convale- ~ start @ new life as a docker in the orry.- Am quite well now. Don’t, scence, and that Burgess was part . East End, but that ration books ‘orry, darling: I love you. Please of what Maclean called his “ash- and identity cards now made it ‘on’t stop loving me. Donald.” Al ' can life,” of which he was ashamed impossible, Burgess also had # hee sound plausible but somehow snd trying to core himself. Hence reputation for disappearing. but sree se aeay were meant to the secrecy. Were they Communist , there would be much less Tessa eae tee eext's week before, - egents? Surely the first duty of a | for him to give up the kind of Having acquired a little more Secret agent ls to escape detection, existence to which he was addicted. ackground, let us examine eome XPress conventional views and Neither could have lasting attrac- a na theories with which we ise in his career. The more Com- :tion for the other, for the force cone sancti be noticed even now munism they talked the less likely ' Which united them would aiso drive ow very few facts we have. We they were to be agents. And Bur- them apart, and the wanderers uspect that Burgess and Maclean &¢58 talked a great deals) = would certainly have been heard of were Communists at Cambridge, . “ *” Poryy :” lagain, for where they were in com- : .- we do bot know" ("pany incidents would be bound to ee tT Wen dt they. -'- Recklessness’ or... |‘ srie; and the element of anti: ever met after! © De tion 2 . social aggression Jn such eye i : lec ‘01 anon would have caused them leave | Cambridge. Both: eptioné + gome kind of statement. were neurotic : personalities’ OLD this have been reckless- arrersstred) ness or a subtle double bluft? * a \ with epiee Both ares posable Maclean A Twitch upon the - ever, in e een years in *. a” . teristics In Worcs od come meroce we : Thread had behaved so remained always devoted to the .° 3, (a) THEORIES WHICH DMPLY A recklessly ‘that’ nonconformist but essentially non- .yorcen Move. “A twitch upon the they had to political little group of writers and ; thread.” The argument is that © gent home, both PAinters whom he bad known in . Burgess and Maclean, were both : ae Grank too’ mych.° London and Paris. ‘They were his Communist agents, Maclean ot E * and then became * 7 ot - both) was growing indiscreet and Yolent and abusive, both might. Nor did Burgess ever appear at unreliable, and that they ‘were we described as abnormal, beth ; #! calculating. “Guy would help ‘ recalled before one (or both) could dlegedly made confessions (many anybody in distress. He would make | give away others who were more ears apart) of being Communist ® split-second decision and carry’ secret and more important; that gents, and both were notorious it out no matter what the conse- they were immediately imprisoned mong thelr colleagues for their! quences. He would certainly not do. or liquidated and may have got pe nti-British argumenta and were ' @aything to injure his country.” ",”'farther than an uncertain address sitter against authoritarianism‘ Like most people who feel they ‘In Paris. If they had refused to 0 _nd imperialism. Both had risen ‘ have been starved of love, Burgess they would have been exposed to ast under Wartime conditions and’ and Maclean desired to raise the the British and brought disgrace vad yet maintained an under- emotional temperature ground ‘on their familles. Even 50, it js ‘raduate-like informality in their «them to something higher than doubtful if, experienced diplomats \ppearance and habits and in the « !n the world outside, and found 1 naged..38 “and 40 wol ‘eneral bed-aitting room casualness . drink @ consolation. It we belfeve their own death-warrants with- if their way of life. Both had two - that emotional maladjustment ‘Was Out a murmur and depart without snemies, adolescence and alcohol, the key to their personalities, it Is. «8 farewell. oo ind when they vanished each was hard to see how they could passes: t by his friends to have led ‘ the control to serve @ foreign coun-, che oUffer astray... @ #4. coolly and ruthlessly for twenty, ee ae) YAS aNd yet work all the time in, executive capacities for their own. . . I think that Burgess was a Marx~; ‘Jat in his mental processes and an’ - a *anti-Marxist . individualist in” his: 7 > personality. Maclean, it may’ be, had something on his conscience,’ . which, however, was & particularly _ plender one: possibly, above all, = / had a fear about, his, :mental: “condition. “S2% ae -—Sa.many explanationgotthejr | oe