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{ RANDOLPH CHURCHILL in MOSCOW Gid-school-tie Burgessealls on me year at the 2 La, [pool F-had a very disag we experience. I arrived at a hotel found that I had been allotted a room without & Conference at Bladk- chairman of the Communist rn 6 i lied on Intourist, a 7 I don’t know the deputy rked before the war. would. rty, 20 1 was not table to ber list his help. piul Government. ‘evel agency his aged mother to wht be speaks every week on the bath: and a pretty shoddy | They , moved | me telephone. I. warned him room at that ved tm Moscoir’ quickly to the National Bore, that one Autores General teat “Thursday” 1 Thad “an. yery_ much superior estp- Buvler might have e word of azrangement. J had asked two to say about that for a suite at the Natiqnal; Hotel. where J had stayec| in November 1945 in the bad pid: days under Comrade Stsiin. Instead I found myself Ha very different sort of cara- e 6 kral- jap Hotel. ot this ostelry may eajt the a of the Ukrainians, but it was not the sort of accommodati appropriate for an Eng! Journalist. Lord Northeliffe, in the heyday of the Dally Mail, once sacked a journalist because he had travelled third class. And tly 80. He felt that the fellow was letting the side down It turned out all right at ckpool because I was ‘sona) friend of Lord Poole, * deputy chairman of . Party, He arrang! if I should have a bet#- ote i On Saturday evening | in my spartmgnt. inding my own busi with secretary and inter- letter every week preter Miss Lidiya Dubinin- friend. Sir Harold . Burgess seemed gts well informed on Engl! Dolitice and claimed that be got & from his Nicolson skaya. when the telephone ‘This may be an empty boast. Ings. A chap announc 1 don't know: but F expect imself as Burgess and asts that the trath may be (whether he can come and cal] = discovered bares TOP PEOPLE 1 think that ts DI: brovapiy 1 asked Burgess how be ‘actical joke, played by some knew that ing at A owas the National Hotel He said “Well. I went to the Ukrainian Hotel and called on my old friend {verach McDonald (McDonald works for Sir William Haley and ts Foreign her journalist. But I play “dead pan” and say ys. me around Bs s0On as 4. nvenient. wenting an ole vaniae bet an nian tie. know nat it ts got Mr. Editor of The Times news- Macmillan because neither he paper.) “McDonald told _ Bor i would Derpetuate the wt you bad moved to the social solecism of wearing an Old school tle in Moscow! Burgess mows a at net Well, there we are in the OF eople wit te az nal Hotel—and Burgess. Times. such as Mr his old Etonian tle, . Obberg. who wrote Pamela says is me: “Iam still a 8 at him, and Lady Ft ce Gommenist and & homo- chael Berry, editor-in- fel for Ufe of the Dely ph. nis seven, long pests egTs] fter EVENING STANDARD LONDON, ENGLAND FEB, 23, 1959