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to him smile OF & king. support bya .. watd, without any ex : ee eve any explans ~ oth journalists, ° ‘The ° were. as ive tnd burried. - Se Saysclt wT at sone the high. corri- i tor. to my, nearly knocked down two stout elderly. delegates to next week's “Party Congress and picked up typewriter the laundry \ | paid “and rushed to the cable office up snow-covered Gorky Street. Two resting points—maybe not in| ant isep to the eye when study- ing [the joint statement The heading 1 “Statement by G. Burgess end D faclean"-—the christian names sre not {given in the head—end Bi nal p egain appears | before Maclean's 1D j i the opening of the On the other hac the the egos in neat blue transpose Maclean's appears ‘above Burgess’s. ‘Wnel? rushed back after the meeting | | to the stairway with the yee pewriter after | on absence ol 0 of me and a halt salnuees, 1 Room 101 closed but’ ike Hants still iit burning. “Have the gentiemen left” 1, asked the administrator sitting blissfully un- conscious outside the “Yes," she replied, serenely. “They left immediately. Downstairs I met the hotel manager. “Have those two visiting gentlemen gone?” I asked again. “Yes, Mr, Hoojis,” he replied urbanely- “‘They left in = bleck Hmousine. Very nice ‘gentlemen, 1 having seen them before. Are they + | of yours, Mr, Hoojis?" moe Reason for Disclosure ~ It ts interesting to speculate why this moment has been selected for the drama- te arinars ot Burgess and Maciean ster nearly five years in Bin weeks ago, weld re gebies Hewers that | “ne, ¢ me aia not, kr not noe It may well that the Spreng vn visit to London . sshal Bulgantn, | ods Jot obvious reply to thi 1. Guthorities Had hitherto ered | Ktjowledge of the whereabouts of ee 4 im on would be that Basis, in a sanctuary, chose in that bothing be anid about about presence or activit The sanowncement sama ends the! | world-wide speculation and surmise, at; Jeast about the location of the pair and } whe' they are alive. ere cer- tainiy very much alive. Took assured and happy, but IT cannot say waeuner einer aged or acquired ore gre! Burgess looks er ond Madea older than they did in I have seen, but they both photographs Undoubtedly appear well ‘and relaxed. [Wortp CopyricHt) MOTHER’S HOPE OF BURGESS LETTER “Might Even See Him” Mrs, J, Bassett, mother of Guy Burgess, said last night at her London home : “Now I may get letters and I may be able to write. I might even be able to see my son again.” Mrs. Bassett is now married to Lieut-Cotonel J. Bassett. Later she said : “I should certainly go to Moscow later to see my son if there was any possibility of doing so, I cannot go now because I am unwell.” Mrs. Bassett added that she woul; ‘ite immediately if she “knew where white to.” No doubt, she said, her wduld give an address. ‘ iganin notet had Maclean tone Page 7. I The’ ‘Missing ‘Diplomats ~ DONALD DUART MACLEAN, who ts | was educated at Greahas i Schoo! and Trinity College, Cans bridge. ined the Diplomats avy Francis Roncess, 4, was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, at Eton and at Trinity Coll Cambridge. He entered the . Foreign Service in January, 1947. Other important dates in their careers were: May, 1950: Maclean was gullty of serious misconduct while serving at the Embassy al Cairo. Suffered « form of breakdown due to overwork and excessive drinking. Aug., 1950: Bi transferred wasitiigions ° 7 1950; Atter leave at orn and recuperatior 8) ead of "American. Deparment | Service tnt . 1 | I He Department Foreign Office. 0 ort, May, 1951; Burgess recalled London after a 8 request by Ambas- tedor for his for careless Face with centdential papers ave this Hime, Maclean was rs Arand piizelpel aspect after inauiries Into May 25, 19817 3 Mr. Morin, then ign Secretary, sanctioned to question ‘Maclean. 28, 1951: It became, ken kno} urges and Maclean barges a Main ea