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WORLD OF SURGESS by CLA’ —_ CASE ER 3A, 1956 ENSLALD 100-37h1£3) Pal AND MACLEAN =e UD COCKBURN CAUSE the Governor pf Maryland was anti-Brithh andi would make a stink, the British Embassy in Washingt¢n took a arpye view of the fat that GuyS-Burgess had been caught speeding in his car three times in the same day, which he did because he still suffered the effects of a delayed concus- sion which he had because a short while before he was hav- ing a discussion at his London Club with a Forcign Office col- gue who knocked him down tairs, And the row with the ‘ashington Embassy trigg: the final St Malo-Pragye- joscow move of Burgess apd Maclean. It is the kind of thing which those who know about that kind so seldom tell, and those who think it is the Kind of thing that goes on and would like to tell it, so seldom know. Mr. Driberg knows a fot and tells quite a bit. And one of the engaging qualities of this book. Guy Burgess (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 12/6)—which I uppose is one of the major litical and journalistic events the decade—is just that jhe es et this rough, path¢tic ture of reality be felt by fhe _feader,_- ___. H7 bec 18 1956 erent 8