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cone ne at nara a ne ae erm Siena a mn ceetrenlnrnuin tee RR NTE REE AARON TERT I BS Umea mem EM * Foreign. Of fic le i desks to go to tHe * Soviet capitel—and ‘WHY. | Mr: Driberg, former Socialist “M.P. .for the ‘Maldon Division of Essex, Burgess ‘ Daily: Jadvanced. had gon After thi uy st4ry'in his daq for i month,” Drderg on hi last week-end. Nail “is to “tell the story .,in., the | Hundreds‘of columns Ihave been printed about ' Burgess and Maclean in} the newspapers. j They have been the sub-" ject of a White Paper and of | debates in both Houses ot Parliament. "Dozens of theories have been! Numerous investl- mystery. hie Bt in revealed the ‘Moscow. gations have been made. Yet until now the known facts are surprisingly few. Tt was known that they crossed {g/m Southampton to St! e night of Friday, May | was known that they, Rennes, iy Britany, veh en ny sea, : WRONG mh DOPE Rt : SAFER. ‘tive ) ‘yeors “Guy Burgess’ | has’ “cleared up: the Mystery of the Missing Diplomats, which created the greatest. sensation this‘ country. has |i ~In month-long talks with.| - - »: Mr. Tom Driberg in Moscow:he hes toJd the’ fill story — HOW hdand Donald Maclean left thdir Under strain: ‘Zach morning he spent sever’ urs with Burgess taking notes {& the evenings he wrote the firs draft af the story, chapter by chapter, and next morning began by read:ng Burgess what ho had written, “| think 1 got pretty well the: . whole_story.” he_says. “How and why they went there and— much__more important — the: course of policy which made working withthe British Foreign Office an intolerable, “strain for them. i! “as for the route they tool ‘{ well, ail the past Me tne one T recall were completely wrong, now know. just rihich way they, it. “T also know the answer to the question often asked: Was, thelr departure carefully planned, in concert e Soviet authori- ties, or with the Sovrpur-of-tne- joment adventure? ‘The answer hay, surprise many. peop! Nes Ready to report | ir. Driberg found Burgess oot well. He was Still wear- in ritish sult and usually his Old. Etonian tie. He seemed healthier, steadier. less nervy then in the old days, but was as untidy ‘as ever., His. wit. too, ced in a television Interv! wh eds asethd"B et] to the [For ce, ne inat he, bad ed toe & burgess denied to Mr. Diberg had ever done anything disloyal to Britain, cies ‘Not a spy *. Mr. Driberg himself says he convinced that Burgess was not traitor oF a spy. “Ido not myself agree with the| says. "AS 8. i t. sect means are available. y “ But I recoy soopnise his right to do ' what he did ; I know that he acted on high principle ; and I respect his courage in doing s0.” Many people, of course. take a very gine ferent view, of Burgess’ a . th But whether he is regarded as aitor, SpY. of just an uns! tory Member of the Brilish reign Service waose resignation s demanded. he remains one of the two principals in an episode ot ost-war hist Their disappearance influenced Anglo-Amerivan relations and had the widest political repercussions. ere can, therefore, be no doubt ‘About the interest and im- portance of Burgess's version of e great post-war mystery of van-shing diplomats, i him ‘a vas which has still to be collated. ( The Daily Mall will keep its readers Informed on the progress of this work, and Mr. Driberg’s story will be ished at the earliest jate, Subsequently, pear In book form. atch the Daily Mall fpr:s t more detail, Said