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_ \ He pad One Seuret abopit - Th ho talked | Ce® wees URGESS: The man who talked | (e-ncrscny arty card. ies Paty AT ONE ward. alongside the workers’ |r, Me kept that secret so well that w- FROM. PACE :ONE ward | glongsiee Wetional Gon- | the Foreign, Office could admit : F ; gress Gf Action yesterday that there was 0p come by an imperialist war or at Bermondsey. .., ¥ suspicion of him until a monin by a Communist revolution. ‘One was as bad as another. The only ultimate. solution was the yictory of the | property less classes, § | ‘Thus Maclean, on the verge of ‘is 19th birthday, was already itaking © rebellious attitude . ‘towards Kis Own class. . Two years later he was ri ht on ine Party Line. For Granta, of iMareh 7 1034, published this etter from nim. i— . ~tast term an unsuccesstul . attempt was made by the ' authorities toa ban a Free Speech meeting, and. AnthWar The National Congress of Action nefore he vanished. _ at Bermondsey in 1934 was a Com- munist-inspired conference which adopted Gommunist-inspired I q a slogans: P iit 5 Loe € 9 Now Maclean gave the impres- oo sion, in those days ot & man whol | sa i M P _ WOLL Qwieny urther ig esuse. y Not so Burgess, +] 4 ° . He roiled Communism round. nis! or tongue and spouted it at anybody N RiP. tor pradtord Nocih, + whe would listen. Said at Bradford last night DBINK «4.4 about the Maclean-Burgess . ; . case i— He goaded his friends raat “T am a little éhocked that pictures of the wrath to eqmej) information ot this kind and af when he atid Mr. Harry Pojlitt'|this importance should be given articles in two college mager . had their way, But, with enopgh, jaut by some obscure spokesman zines were. censored, . BURGESS liquor, he would concede dispepsa-|jat the Foreign Office on & It is rumauted that cases of In. Eton dress. tions to a favoured few. Sunday afternoon when Parlia- p Mtlcad, LSC nt have ; Burgess and a Tricia sometimes ment is in recess That is come pacurred at the Appolniments : | stay wi a woman novelist.| | pletely against the principle tna Beard. ston action. for immediate The friend told her that Burgess) ;the Executive should not withhold tn | certain. colleges economic a had confided to him. this fact.:!jessential information from the edploitation of tne student has The Pederauion ponusen} [he was not only a member of the’ Commons béen introduced, j i eli Communist. Party but a secrety/ “ Perhaps it is a good thing that There is reactionary and valiue- pndge is nD section, Socialis agent. And Burgess had inyited|| Parliament is not Sitting. pecaune) less teaching in every faculty. peneral formulation of studen his friend ts join the work. 1 om sue om wee Oe ay this: There is. in fact, an irresistibly ’ demands and pub them for Yot when war came where did ‘ an F , " : : ‘ ss pas been handled. v fort | purgess 2 2 Bug. into that||PYSmess, Mas re eat) whieh is known as M.1.6. hare to give Parliament | full He told a friend he was con-))stary. | gerned. with the flow of secret . { jnformation through Swiss ‘ ‘channels. He was in close contact with the Political Warfare Executivelat lsecret headquarters in Buckige- hamshire. He became an expert on sabotage, propaganda, spying. ... DRINK During this period—on Septem- 1 ber 1G, 1940—Burgess appeared at Mariborough-street. court accused of driving a War Office car while under the influence of drink. Tt wae stated that he was “doing rather confidential work.” on ‘ land the case. was dismissed on = ar . ‘payment of costs. On drove Burgess—until he get indde the Foreign Office iteef. Or Gctober 1, 1947. faciean had been nicely settlgd thfre for 12 years, and was by , Itthhs time sifting out State secress : las head of chancery in Washing- ~~" tuon,