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RF ata” tea AD st aoa Nees wih oe dy oi hin . nec hy 7 ad SOT iii Seton “The story is told by. Tom Daieerc N Saturday, ‘February: 11, 1956, “the! correspondents “of the ai Sunday Times, Reuter the. Tass Agency, and Pravda wete:: 1 it summoned at short rnot}ee to to Room 101 of the National | Hotdl, if "Moscow. . ees cs ' ’ “In the plushy, faded grandeur of this Edwardian hotel. they were | _astonished to be confronted with the two “ missing diplomats,” Guy: Burgess and Donald Maclean, whom the police and Press of many.. cquntries had been trying in vain to trace since their departure from” . gland nearly five years before, -- ~ f 4 The correspondents were handed a statement in which the two men” set out; : ir reasons for going to the Soviet Union This statement ended with the words 5; ré We both of us are convinced that we were right in doing what we did.” .<.- ' After brief verbal exchanges, the two men withdrew. The correspondents were? given no opportunity of asking any the questions that were seething in their} i: minds. These questions, accordingly. re ained unanswered, though, in the renewed 4 .Ptess furore that followed ‘this. mo: red revelation, : ‘some: ~ wildly Specus ves ahswers. were offered, | Hidgotnee © igh pi “hh are wm arta sn —_ a MES