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Neip - 2 The “tory is wake by TOM. Driserc | Sunday Times, Reuter] the- Tass Agency, and Pravda wete? summoned at short not}ce to Room 101 of the National Hotdl, + :Moscow. , : { vos In the plushy, faded grandeur of. this Edwardian hotel’ they were | astonished to be confronted with the two “ missing diplomats,” Guy: Burgess and Donald Maclean, whom the police and Press of many : cquntries had been trying in vain to trace since their departure f from gland nearly five years before. -- - . 4 The correspondents were handed a statement in which the two men set out? thtir reasons for going to the Soviet Union This statement ended with the words 7“ We both of us are convinced that we were right in doing what we did.” = After brief verbal exchanges, the two men withdrew. The correspondents were? te no opportunity of asking any the questions that were seething in fe i ed i N Saturday,’ ae 1956,” ‘the! correspondents ‘of “p inds. These questions, accordingly. remained unanswered, though, in the rene’ Pless furore that followed this momjentar, ‘some: wildly specula ve, .allswers were offered. ">. Vets, :