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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 23
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¥ ig his fat and atrum hymns and ; pleasure, : ae * fi Eel
d songs. the Eton. Boating ':-/"'It would, however, seem over.
, Bong among them, Sahn ‘ref punctilious to spp the prinsy
¥ pane,” Scotiish Student's Song x, “iple to the case of Guy Burgess,
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‘dacha. » a tad age cally time Soe hie jonrnee ae
J remembered now the unusual ©, the ‘
“sensitiveness that had made i«.Moscow, be was, eens ee
= him-as a boy, turn “aside, from.}; Slready seen, rapidly on his way}
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i watee bee tee > the personal story of two men? have thought, Proper, sd?"
*that when he returned in the - Chiefy denne ye he hom shave. “One ‘night’ when‘ Guy” Bur-j
* evenings to his dacha his old -. y Very, 7" SS poss and Tvere walking back to
} Russian woman housekeeper: Yet. in a way. they typify the’ our hotels from dinner, at @,
would cook him a good supper. dilemma of a younger genera--- ; Moscow, restaurant we -were
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f artists.” and ballet dancers. are oo ie process of history. He tapiain apologi
e Reople in the Soviet Onion. become significant because of: -
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« Guy took me one day to see a. should follow the ending of the’ - “rF one has done something’
vast block, not yey complete. in. Cold War it should be possib!é:..wrong, one should. apologise. .
. new flaw)! J; 8S well as the general. back--"’ that 13 difficutt for people te”
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who leave Britain ‘for private’... What‘I “nave written: 1s‘ not:
: E would much rather . ; in‘ the ordinary sense ‘of’ the:
_ have jhad rooms in. cause «they prefer. another
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d use them at week-ends. In the calmer mood whieh") agreed
which he has been allocated & to reassess the particular cases ). “Tf one“has done something”
» Sentimental : ~ "7 tind It'strange that people’s* trying to explain it to them ?™-:
word, an apology, for Guy. Burs*'
one of Moscow's old,” Climate or wa ; SM nade tery er
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slowing houses, rather | e ge. _,b@ deemeq to have behaved in; But lt may be taken Bs, in‘at
ousés in & Bloomsbury square. a” natural and even creditable-"- small way, an attempt to outline:
Such a preference Is incom. «. ' way: whereas those who.-for’:" the soyear-iong Process . that’
rehensible | to .. most. Soviet "’ the sake of principle. go to Hive Culminated in his -journey.sh.
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e Guy .jherefore> anticipates * earnest Lope of doing something : THE’ END eh
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i notional, even sentimental, side: | Having talked at length with 4 Driberg, “will” ba- published a
pe Guy. Be erro. Iguy Burgess. and satisfied my- |. Shortly by Weldenfeid andy
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