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oe ee PES An Ne oe yo a See an PW. oom VOR TOE REE Wee SEAN Eo tent ete ty ea rt any ‘4 CIRCULATION — This Is his drawing NE of them bore a message from Bevin : Warner was to come on board and have a drink, He did so, and was able with some difficulty to persuade Bevin that his return to White- hall was indeed essential. Guy, meanwhile, had re mained on duty. While waiting he doodled (he had alwavs had a gift for rather fantastic caricature}, and the doodle turned out to’ be a drawing of Bevin in a boat exclaiming “'Eetor needs - McNe!ll saw the drawing and —having first tactfully filled in the initia! H--showed it to Bevin, who chuckled at {t Then, knowing that he was in for a sticky half-hour with h colleagues. Bevin asked Guy let him have the drawing show them—and created wh may have been a precedent b: Ita uarppaw | Sw eV wer we VT . WAS HE A TRAITOR ? circulating it, officially stamped, a5 a Cabinet document. His colleagues smiled and for- Rave Bevin, and he got his policy accepted. At about this time an admin- istrative complication arose about Guy's promotion, which McNeil had been trying to secure. McNeil wanted Guy to stay with him, but to be trans- ferred from the subordinate branch known In the Foreign Ofice.as Bramh B to the higheg Branch A. Th@ Office authorities, how~ eyer.Buved that the promotion whuldinot be in order until thes h aoa report on his wor fo y, six months in one thé political departments. \ to ne choice was, therefore, stay with MoNeil and folfett | a$y Prospect of early promofon og to go to a politic ment and quallfy for promotitn apy quiciiy. ‘- 5 his later action proved Guy could not be accused o ing ® ‘tareerist;: he liked - MeNeil and also (despite his‘ Jack of success) still liked ‘being | his eminence prise: but the tug-of-war on icy, especially on German policy, was a con- Stant strain. . ‘PEACE. After the conflict | E therefore decided to move, and asked be transferred to @ political department, prefer- ably the Par Eastern parte ment. ' He was completely in agree- ment with British policy ow the Far East. - ‘ Soon after the start of the Korean war Guy was sent to the British Embaasy in Wash- inkton. : his mission to Washingtpn Wig the most agonising episofie in Fre Nfe of Guy Burgess ; aad Jt Med directly the strange climax of his journey to Moscow, He was appalled by what seemed to him the ignorance and incompetence of many of | his new colleagues, in contrast with those he had been working with in the Far Eastern Depart. ment. e Some of the censorious accounts of his persona] con- duct in Washington at this time, which was indeed disorderly, Seem to suggest thet ft ts un heard-of that a man’s private life should reflect worry or dis- satisfaction in his work: this, of course, is a common pheno- menon in America or in Britain. To explain a bout of Irregular behaviour, of heavy drinking, and fast driving is not te excuse it: it would cerisinly have been better both for Guy Burgess and for the cause in which he be- Heved If he had led a sober Ufe and preached his views quietly and persuasively, ‘ pie just did not happen tp be that sort of person, and soon he was pulled up for exceeding the sp ed-limit in his car ree ‘tintes in one day. DECISION This is his recalt { HERE was no sug- ‘gestion of his being drunk in charge of the car, nor had he (he claims) been driving dangerously. . Guy was recalled on the Bround that his conduct was generally unsatisfactory, So, no doubt, it was, When he returned to London, therefore, he must have known that he was officially in dis- grace, though he may not have expected actual dismissal from the Service. It is important to an under- standing of his personal posi- tlon, however, to know that he . himself had already—severa! months before these events— decided to teave the Service, and had actwally begun to look out for a possible job. [The White Paner said: In Washingion Ais wark and bee haelour pave rise to complaint 1+. The Ambassador requested that Rurgess be removed ond he was recalled to London| in rarly May 195) and was asked to resign from the Foreign ervice.,.. it wos at this pohit that he dlsappeared.} —