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have done to have done. Fortunately, the friend hom © | -I gave the letter to, askin) a : 4 to see that Bera got it. at 9 : terzified that he never passed 5 tI have become used 10 the Ya 4t on. If ne had Ya probanly ys Of solitude, and on the oe Been shel ‘ye read m1 hs ect iorarys ah “Like * roid Nicolson, very q! to my dacha most'even- are ‘maddening. thou oth series loss ‘that, 40 mntes ney well * leagues. own cole drive from the office. j ettes. “They're T drink only wine—thls Cauca-" things that are wrong Lg Yate crate ine. whenever I can ‘—honestly, é . it, Hardly ever vodka, unless Crying to-do propaganda—it is w Socialist: country;and there mick, ws ihe best eure for” upset # sometim .. : ; Jeith some o¢ sae ee ALWAYS refuse vodka, 9 fort “nlm . ab * parties—it’a not FA nee’ f or ae portant easy, Somehow I J: « aon't usually. need it In‘ London I was. lonely for You’ know, Tom, lving 1 a TOE Socialist country does have a _ therapeutic effect on one. I know people at nome will find this difficutt to believe, but _,,* this is @ tolerant country. As * you know, I’m an old-fashioned, 1th-century. dogmatic atheist, only since NM Cn ‘ve living in Russia that learned to respect those who be- important things—I was eve in religion r some of foueiy for Soplallsmn ne ves em. " DRIBERG:* One Pte. Don't think I'm “ starry-eyed" * ut this place, X can’t stand + that attitude. Nor can th ‘the Russian, J mean,’ (21 criticise things’ here, they take serious een aah sians knew that you'd worked for the British Secret pervic why weren't they at all, well “suspicious of you ? BURGESS: made any secret “ot {t-I ‘told them perfectly that I’d worked for the and Russian organizations was Mdentteat, . ‘a matter of tact, the tell, me Tim lucky cA alive. : At the : time of that disgraceful | business of the “ doctors’ plot”:I wrote, “a sharp note to 7 Beria, telling him: fo @ was Wrong, and telling dim ee of “'the’’story.3: The y I knew he was -wron) 4 drama’” began. many ause Td had a lot of “dew penne before and whl while'I was n washington with “JOIN’ the oppor- ‘American desk Joint Aunt of 7 of discussing Guy Burgess yatsibation Commitiee] and I ean with an knew they,” could. not: possibly,” saute veaden t ¢\charadter who; ho. at they were said | 4 * naa known them : T have never been a victim of |: et Ife: uy -heht charm.” ‘Sometimes they yirienale tern. Yaya though 1 get on: ‘OT, despite all the | ' would have seemed Because I never : othe “auslude of the British © = UT ‘hat was the climax , —€ both well ‘most of their adult life.;: re Sid not meet Maclean while was in Moscow because he Et erally | ware. tn any ons te fiend” emphasised, Bee an Pah iter | and temperam Gavinet Mintster. Foreign Office he seemed fee" ‘flesh of thelr, Mesh.’ HE” Cairo’ breakdown was the sort of Hung, that could have hep pened to anyone who had overworking ; once the doctéra said that he had recovered, ie" | fair to penalise for Lien tan & career diplomat so outstand« ingly brilliant and so congenial." Burgess was an entirely dif- ferent sort of person It seemed Probable that he got more emotional satisfaction than the doctrinaire intellectual Maclean - out of their joint enterprise, end our mutual friend Mkened him || to an old-fashioned anarchist or. + to Djerjhinsky, the Polish’ ‘country ‘squire and humanist who supported the Bolshevist’’ °° Revolution, og® comparison 18 interest.” rgess has indeed, like “Bled ake changed sides ihe class struggle. ircum. Hances of his ch! sufficiently comfortable, pad in| ‘due course he was sent [ Jan. Oo 1924, hen ha was. nearly ae OME of” those. who + have ‘sought to ang: se hig character: may pe surprised to learn that story of bi .” schooldays no element either oft Persecution ; 3, Or He was nelther a: drunk ‘an sesthete ; his - interest’ politics was not ‘awaken arly and when’ the Seren in 1926 his al some