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king, to support him by a smi br affirmative. . wrgess said, without any explana’ “We also give -our statement to !SuNpay Tmues.” “ 4 ” I rushed out of the room with other three journalists. - The “were impassive * ana unhurried, * aad: reemed to be surveying the Reuter man r and myself amusedly. 4 I van along the high, carpeted corri- tdor, to my room, nearly knocked down two stout t elderly delegates to next week's -Party Congress and picked up typewriter nener and carbon. Repel Beh | There was a knock st the door. | fiung it open. An amiable hotel raid, with an account can her hand, sald in _broken English. “You have not yet paid “the laundry bill, Gospodin” (a Russian | honorific). I paid and rushed to the cable office up snow-covered Gorky Street. - ‘Two interesting points—maybe not important—leap to the eye when study- ing }ihe inint statement. The heading rea “Statement by G. Burgess and D. Maclean "-—the christian names are not given in the head—and Burge ‘amp again appears before Maclean's In the opening of the statement. j On the other hand the signatures in| neat blue ink transpose the ord Maclean's appears above Burgess’s. ' Wher t rushed back after the meeting | to the stairway with the typewriter after ‘an absence of one and a half minutes, <7 ie the door of Room 161 closed but: tes — — the lights still burning. “Have the gentlemen left?” 1 asked | the administrator sitting blissfully un- conscious outside the doors. “Yes,” she replied, serenely, “They left, immediately. Downstairs I met the hotel manager. “Have those two visiting gentlemen gone?" Tasked again. | “Yes, Mr, Hoojis,” he replied urbanely. “They left in a black lmousine. Very nice gentlemen. JI do not remember Naving seen them before. Are they friends of yours, Mr, Hoojis? " Reason for Disclosure It is interesting to speculate why this moment has been selected for the drama- He appearance of Burgess and Maclean alter “nearly five years in hiding. on tip weeks ago, Mr. Khrushchev ‘told dewers that he did not know where er man was. It may well be that the pending visi visit to London byyM the| n hehéy and the\ tl main Teason. Tiarshal Builganin Certainly, gtatament not been made, both So fet [tena rs would have been constarjtly questioned on the mystery at Eng | Pres! interviews. ‘ “oe ee BR whe as - * S | obvious reply to the question why et authorities had hitherto denied sil kilowledge of the whereabouts of the two mbn would be that Russia, in gran’ i thpm sanctuary, chose to respect their wih that nothing be said about tpi | presence or activities In Moscow. The announcement finally ends the | world-wide speculation and surmise, The’ Missing «| ‘Diplomats — 4 i iC DONALD DUART MACLEAN, who is | 2, was educaled at Gresham's t least about the location of the pair and. School and Trinity College, Cam- | - whether they are alive. They are cer- : bridge. He joined the Diplomatic tainiy | very, much allve. t ney jook | # Service in 1955 a ed re assured an apoy, Bui cannot say GUY FRANCIS GURGESS, at. was whether either iB aged oF eauired | educated at the Royal Naval College, me wey 4 pees 00. revert | Dartmouth, at Eton and at Trinity and ane T gider jhan fe ear 4 College, Cambridge. He entered the Pndoubtedly appear well ‘and relaxed. _ Foreign Service in January, 1947. [Wortp CopYricHT] Otntreers wares dates in thetr RAAMINITENDYA TADE. Mr May, 1950; Maclean was guitty of MULHERN S MVirn vr serious misconduct while serving at the Embassy at Cairo. Suffered a BURGESS LETTER form of breakdown due to overwork and excessive drinking. . . Aug., 1950: Burgess transferred to “ Might Even See Him” Waslington, a Oct, 1950; After leave at hom Mrs, J, Bassett, mother of Guy Burgess, and recuperation Maclean appointed said last night at her London home: Head ‘of American Department, “Now I may get letters and I may be Foreign Office. able to write. q might even be able to Farly “May, 1951: Burgess recalled see my son again. rs pow , married to Lieut-Colonel J. Bassett. to London after a request by Ambas- Later she said : “I should certainiy go n ith to Moscow later ‘to see my son if there this Tee Maclean won regarded aa waé any possibility of doing so. I cannot rincipal suspect afte uirles i go now because I am unwell.” Tea rate of Teton into Mrs. Bassett added that she woul: May 25, 1951: Mr. rriso: ite immediately if she “knew where Foreign Secretary, _ Morrison, th o white to.” .No doubt, she said, her to question Maclean. wduid give an address. May 28, 1951: It became kno _Bulganin notes had Maclean touch]. hat Burgess and Maclean had fled T Sec Page 1. » fre eountry on May 25.° il | Es ey een ¥, Pak ee wes te ee ome gneet