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organisa io {\estigating “the” But gess’and:Macléan’ case! to feel sure that their’: sProtectors were Com- i, smunists, many o: Ve. Spothing’ 0 off ‘the’kind.: fs Some were simply kind . v4 jsincs és them “hgarted: people moved by Ke Sight }of two ‘young ; en throwing away | great tural; advantages, ? Others were conventional [sheep following a ~- particu- larly’ dral LF Kom ib » cohyentian af af tes rare as @ not a bore. i* VE EVELYN WAUGH js | {i a; Novelist of enormous ijalent 2 ‘put--he -and his’ 7 fim Itators. have injected.’ our society with tedium and squalor by the pretence igthat the drunken wastrel is amusing, and that not to be | ‘amused by him is dowdy, Others of their.defendbrs | .were homosexuals drawn{to (hee by their homosexualfty. | + -These are complicatiqns -which the two men cannot ~Bave, planned ; but that the | ‘two. men were capable: lanning “complications * on | itheir* own behalf ‘can. be. ‘seen’ ‘by an, examination of ite? work ‘Communism’, "Maclean" cannot® made a, large contribution here. He seems to have gone. eat in year out passing. is Soviet contacts docu- ments to be copied ; and the copies,“Petrov now tells us,- Pt Foon ‘are now piled OW. * for ow ‘aeninitely tm* Maclean ¥ BAS erywhe} re-rais' Let us ‘take’ “thre 3 pamples where he serv ie Communist - Party 2 kept, well within the | THE: CASE OF X.Y., LECTURER. 4h head ‘of+ a provincii university made 801 pat 5 at thi the BBC a a as e Of F ferepBtte "ate Sntalige then working there.” - <«'* | During “ the | proceeding| Ir. Burgess put to the pro- fessor Mie idea that it would |- be @ good thing to have a! course of lectures given at “his, university, and gave an had therefore broken o! a flong flirtation’ with 1 Nagis and become a fellow traveller. Everybody | wh scame within the. orbit’ Burgess at that time wa: : addressed. on: “he subject 2! “MIHAILOVITCH 'Tn.1941 Yugoslavia ca Anto the ra on the. sk ‘of «the * Allies * again: ja er's Germany. The, Com~ —e : ung Mr Burgess, who swat 1 CY. was” . on, who‘ fad’ “Test ah seen that war was inevitable yple i 4 ‘owas Fascist i ae ot ‘lea support { mme* cnarge 'was* ali ‘Mibailoviten was 2 no Foscist; jand long before ance eur ore ees oF the he, nF eal Just before the’ war’ the es a i Deana an creape 26 ey ymgnder -in - Chief « Yugoslav Army was 2% adidier named ¢, ma palioych, nyse { Yugoslav Peasant jradio stat broadcast. "re was highly inconvenient ‘tor her. to go, but her:sense ‘of duty’ persuaded her to go ; |: ‘on what was.a_ fruitless, ; Journey., For nobody at the: | en France’: w Mberaged, Burgess, stil BBC. ay Parties: lan resistance to Hitler. 24 +28 Bar ess and his friends were: mbie and industrious, an induct Pmtha’ ot hs who spoke}! ‘good’ French and was. well ,known in France, to, go over’ with. him to. Parls’on the tatic - “Bécommendation * igrounds’ ae the . French that | XY should deliver}. anted per ee FRENCH. “FAKE” (French “radio station, ever heard’ of | Burgess disappeared. | When ‘he came’ back he’, told his” friends of excit! myetings with, members Commungt P ty, and how they” wefe. -gbing: to take the count{y ae cree rench Actually thiere Though half ‘Londor Cpe 8 performing - rvices ” the communi ty arty as these they did jot 2 jer, was tempt at, civil. war whi the lieve that Burgess w: mmunist agent, for mple reasol thas: bi | them. he was. ina ef aftate ‘nad I ey own feature: not : tobe! tructions i what ‘i whether to_ fight, ee a ‘the Juck Ee or aD I x game. when a and Imprison-/ ae torture*'to “his peuriall . temPerament,* wand sexlle E great: Inconventence’rto * a ment would? who was:living: so Nappily in London.» He: would. certainly: dave wanted: to. ‘ back: at’ b society. Kae He’ was witty, imaginative: unscrupulous. «It would. not, ‘have ‘been 1 a: wer, a 1e 1d