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SEN tg etn bh ae ey ae pret#y busy. But J don’t see why it wab- \D Dit I can see that all this keeps you, necajsary to have all the secrecy, about’ your whereabouts, and 'so* on, for ‘all’, snes years. 3c eek, Kas : ae = AR <U* BURGESS: Ah, exactly... But'that was ‘the view that our’Russian'hosts took at ‘first:". You! remember when Kapitza*: the scientist ‘came back to Russia and a lot of fools said he'd’ d done} .’so, under duress. -He simply wrote, a‘short: letter to The Fimes saying that he was ‘aS iet, : 7 citizen, ete." «. “4 ‘ 2° Well, I wanted to ‘write a short letter to The Times! saying that, as a Soclalist, I had come to a. Soctallat puntry to help the cause of peace. . 2 But people here were against it. Actually, I belleve ‘ as Beria’s fault, They didn’t want publicity, ‘ney thong! te would cause an international scandal. a pale #1 told them that there would be far more "oublieity fe tried to hush it up—exactly as has happened. Then why did they agree, 4 ,DRIBER * Press conference last February ? ‘ato | Th swer is, simply, I talked them BURGESS: I arg yued from the heat what we said in ¢ _ opening sentence: of ,our statement last February, ~ i (* It seems to us that doubts as to our whereabouts ang! speculation about our past actions may de a small but conf tributory factor that has ,% F rp been and may again be ez-: ploited by the opponents 0} Ang = - ‘ovlet understand: . ade One ‘thing that ‘annoyed me 45 was that I wrote a lot of letters to various friends, explaining fi . why"I'd done what I did, an d they. didn't .arrive. ; “clgarette ath on als rumpled) i Po oT “ggarette aut pn nls, rumpted) T first I thought that Some ‘cay I hope to come}: . the Russians had held back to England when the}. them up’ ‘1 scoused » hysteria of ine Cold War period has completely died down, But them of it. but they swore they'd BAS completely dled down. But q think the Nore fad up at - and the B BG. wouldet employ’, e other ent ier me again, and I have to fine any ‘ *, serous fob of work. to al DRIBERG: Still, tm general.” Soviet Union. * You ‘don't ‘regret, As you've O clced, I don’t even . coming here?’ +75 : speak Russlan very ais ust | tchen Russian, enough Naturaby I regret pURBESS:, living outside my 10 my housekeeper “the 7 try; but 1 prefer to-.. dach five 10% a, a Bocialist country, [He This fs iareely because th the er se © ' as pacito up ang down ti people I work with most . is - room as ts his gonstant habit, . English so well that I havent By the way, ne works for in a) hig shoulders M§ther hunched ‘ oeen forced to learn’ Russian.” Foreign Languages Publishing ; shooting tonal direct I've always been lazy about House. which is a kind of sistem’ glances at ke to ie jowered _ languages. ¢ pneutution | to iene one 1 wor! Py — a ropes adequate Russian, feck my tne, ‘ “tine Publishes foreign” “books £ Professor Kai tea” came’ to * thing holding me back + from i", (8 ing. join the ‘Com... iin as a student in 192 From 1923 to 1934 he worke ape ist: ‘party aun e_Com- * on gtOmic problems.at Cam-:; munist * Party -‘of/ the * soviet 2e Gridge, becoming a Fellow Of; Union, £ mean, of course. the Royal Soctety. He retained 4, Donald {5 much more com - his Soviet cithzenship and *; pletely Russianised. His -chil- J. s | vistted “Russia: regularly.’ Hey: dren go to a Soviet school ; they’ SS: ‘tours peak Russian. so- well that the’ Pay ondon* and. 8%, na bee SESS fice York Bub on ‘thes, DRIBERG «aie "youre nappy, yy shere'?,I suppose you xm dit-lonely, sometimes ?.; * ~