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¥ oy : i both (or Maclean along} oMeanwhile’ a myth is slash TE injormation ne figuring them. At first they Russians at some time, were seen in Montmartre and on one occasion only, and fiat Montparnasse, in Brussels and Preyng on Donald's conscience.) Bayonne, on the high pass to “TY sctormation was given in] Andorra, in a bar in Cannes and, Washington, it might have been! with brimming glasses, in a garden- : ‘Rave tak and the leak would! restaurant of Prague. ve taken a Jong time to trace.| This year they have been urges ini might have had wind in) heard of playing chess in the of this investigation | Lubjanka prison and running an hand even got himself sent home {mporlexport business in Prague: his efratic behaviour in’ end Guy Burgess as visiting vorder to. warn Maclean on. his Browning's villa (“ What's become return, Burgess might perhaps | of Waring?) north-east of Venice. at one time have been a kind! 4nd so for mi years they will of private commissar to Maclean.| seen until the ‘nystery is solve After ‘his carefree luncheon, then.) if it ever is, haunting the Old on that last Friday, Maclean was! World's pleasure-traps about the somehow tipped off that exposure season of their disappearance, was imminent. At 5.30 he tele th them Rigor’ phones to his contact Burgess who | Puneing with. them straws ‘says’ Leave it all to me.” ” : Jeanings: @ portent of the mi : mer’s spring. 2 The Making ofa - copyright : reproduction. in Memes or part forbidden. * _Myth -- Ties our doe atta int) ANHIS 1S THE CONCLUDING instalment of Mr} | : all wha ew him. Tam convinced | | C ily’s personal and intimate ‘study of Guy’ | ; Gonmunt, He had morbid’ Ine r; ee Donald Maclean, the: two members Sey that only t his love for is chit of tne Foreign Office Staff who vanished on May J was the one emotion hich he felt \ 6, 1951. ‘Their crucial. last day in, England: | without ambivalence, and he would ” ° . not have taken any drastic step| | "s birthday—is closely examined. - ‘unless he had been convinced that Maclean s bir y y J it was for the best as far as thelr | LI eee happiness was concerned. Perhaps Burgess and Maclean | are at last integrated. But, a8 Maclean said, what matters most is people, and that is what makes his case essentially tragic. Guy Burgess - abivays c enjoyed being himself,"and for''a while he lived his own dream, a realis- tic example’ of the “‘new type sof diplomat” who is always de manded in wartime. But Donald - = Maclean, were it not for his lack of balance and’emotional security, oF had the qualities of a a great public servant.. Yet with admira- tion. for people, he Seurayed those ! Who loved him, humiliated those who trusted him, and discredited those who thougpt like him. ... But once again ere con