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Sennen ete Fie a ramen MOC ed ON RN CEN RRR me * y CIRCULATION This Is his drawing NE of them bore a message from Bevin : ‘Warner was to come on board have a drink, He aid 3 and was able vith some difficulty persuade Bevin that his return to White- hall was indeed essential. Guy, meanwhile, had re- mained on duty, While waiting he doodied (he had alwavs had a gift for rather caricature), and the doodle turned out to’ be a drawing of Bevin in a boat exclaiming “Ector needs. me 3 McNeil saw the drawing and having first tactfully filled in the initia! H—showed it Bevin, who chuckled at it. Then, knowing that he was in for a sticky half-hour with hi colleagues. Bevin asked Guy let him have the drawing show them—and created whi may have been @ precedent b: TOMORROW . WAS HE A TRAITOR ? circulating St, officially stamped, as a Cabinet document. His colleagues smiled and for- Rave Bevin. and he got his policy accepted. At about this time an admin- istrative complication arose about Guy's promotion. which McNeil had been trying to secure. McNeil wanted Guy to stay with him, but to be trans- ferred ‘from the subordinate branch known In the For Office. as Branch B to the Branch A. Th@ Office authorities, how~ eyer-Fuced that the promotion w not be in order until thes hi dR report on his worl fol Ni aix months in one thy political departments, he choice was, therefore, to stay with MoNell and folfett : &3Y Prospect of cary Ppromofon iM nt a ee ieee me for promotibn fapriy quietly.) : ‘8 hig later ‘action proved, Guy could “not _be. accused “of ing careeriat ; “he also “(despite his Jack of success) still liked being his eminence grise: but the tug-of-war on policy, espectal on German wi stant strain. ‘PEACE After the conflict E therefore decided to move, and asked to be transferred to ® political department, prefer- ably the Par Eastern’ Depart - en , He Was completely in agree- ment with British policy on Far East, - cy on the Soon after the start of the Korean war Guy was sent to i otitis Embassy in Wash- jn is mission to Washingtbn Wag the most agonising episope in fhe Wife of Guy Burgess jagd t fed directly fo the strange climax of his journey to Moscow. He was appalled by what seemed to him the ignorance and incompetence of many of his new colleagues, in contrast with those he had been working pith fn the Far Eastern Depart-. ent e@ Some of the censorious accounts of his persona] con- duct in Washington at this time, Which was indeed disorderly, , seem to suggest that it ts un- heard-of that @ man’s private life should reflect worry or dis- satisfaction in his work : this, of course, 18 a common _pheno- menon in America or in Britain. To explain & bout of Irregular behaviour, of heavy drinking, and fast driving ‘s not to excuse it: it would certainly have been better both for Guy Burgess and for the cause in which he be- Heved if he had led « sober Ufe and preached his views quietly and persuasively, fe just did not happen tp be t ‘oat of person, and he was pulled Up for exceeding the sped matt Nis. car thr “tinfes in one day. DECISION This is his recall 1 PIN HERE was no sug: “gestion of his being runk in charge of the car, nor had he (he claims) Gy driving dangerously. uy, was recalled on the ground | that bis Conduct ny Generally unsatisfactory. no doubt, it was, ‘When he returned to London, therefore, he must have known that he was officially tn dis- Brace, though he may not have expected actual dismissal from the Service. It js important to an under- standing of his personal posi- Hon, however, to know that he | himself had’ already—several months before these’ e: decided to teave the Service, and had actwally begun to look out for a possible job. [The White Paper said: In warltiagton Sue per aid a hattour gave rise to complain’ sy. The Ambassador requested that Rurgese be removed @nd He was recalled to Londony in early May 195) and was asked ro, resin from the Forclyn rrotce.. . . It wor ai nat he ‘dlsappeare vo