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Spee ws ae We gem re es Ot ae ts eet nt a Ce ee ae i en eld th . TI oo ata pret@y busy... But I don’ necegsary to have all the secrecy’ about your whereabouts,’ and (80 on, ?for‘alliithese: Tears oe Ee ‘ ae DEER A BURGESS: “Ah, exactly.” .«. But that'was the} ‘view that our Russian hosts took at ‘iret! You remember when’ Kapitza’: the scientist ‘came back to Russia and a a lot of fools said he'd done} wsrAa alriimace syrnt . ‘so. unaer aur» Coe. i -He simply Wore. = “short. letter to The Times saying that he was'a Soviet, citizen, fete. * BRE ” a Well, I wanted to write a short letter to ‘The Times| saying that, as a Soclalist, I had come to a. Socialist : gountry. to help the cause of peace, 2. But people here were against it. Actually, T believe t" no as Berta’s fault, They didn’t want publicity, They thong ti would cause an International scandal. Ve gp RAE rte gain that there would pe far more publicity _We tried to hus up—exactly as has happened, -’ 4 ‘ ; SRIBERG: ae then why ald they vaetee atten | auttot ie! ‘\ enin * Press conference last February ? - : ot The answer is, simply, I talked them ‘Into { BURGESS: I argued from the first what we sald in the” opening sentence. of our statement last February. - 4 ‘(It seems to us that doubts as to our whereabouts an : speculation about our past actions may be a small bui con; | *riduiory factor ihai nas arc Ay a a FF ids and may again be ex- Swale cae A Sa ‘ploited by the opponents of. +, Anglo -- Soviet | ,understand- a ing") ~ fe One ‘thing that annoyed me - Was that I wrote 2 lot of letters gatas Foal men ot aunlaining to FRAIIVUS friends, CAP eal lil why"I'd done what I a, and wey Mant arrive, “te Fy "a dont . rs ‘cigarette ath on “ads rumpled. dark-prey suit.} Some day I hope to come back to England. when the . Hysteria of the Cold War period has completely died down. But obviously the. Foreign Office, - and the BB.C. wouldn't employ, me again, and I have got a. serious job of work.to do in the Soviet Union. “i”. As you've noticed, I don't even T first E thought that the Russians had held " them up’ 1 accused them of it, but they swore they'd ppsted them. Now Im inclined th think they w re held up at e other end." . _DRIBERG: “sull ‘n “general.” you ‘don’t ‘regret, | vd 1 d Ht coming here? * * ap: ' speak Russlan very well-~ ust x “BURGESS: Naturally I regret kitchen Russian, enough to | cs *. living outside my to my housekeeper at. “the 7 own country, ’ bub ] prefer to-.. dacha,~ . live in a Socialist country. [He wag pacing wp and dowa the room as ts his onstant habit. hig shoulders ther hunched shooting oce@ional direct plances at me m_ his lowered ead, As he # ke iM Groped This is largely because the people i WOTE with mostly speak . English so well that I haven't ” oeen forced to learn” Russian.” I've always been «slaty about _ languages. ' ‘ As a matter of fact, my Ane: y ———ermmee :, adequate Russian is the main »; Pat Professor Ka itza” came’ to. ..thing holding me.-back + from ?:. Britain as a student in 1921... applying to. join’ the ‘Com- BE From 1923 to 1934 he worked . . munist- Party. again; the Com- - on atOmic problems.at Cam-.; .munist * party - ‘ofthe Soviet bridge, becoming @ Feliow of; , Union, I mean, of. course. the Royal Socte ety. He retained .%, Donald {g much more com- his Soviet cithenship and. “2 pletely Russianised Hig-chil- visited © Russia: regularly.” :-dren go to a Soviet school ; they. did not return from Russia He «speak Russian . so. weil that. nes | _,f1034.%: Some -believed . £./ fad & other children: Son Regen been fos detained. “4 so" ‘aren't Russian. “AB: z ie 1 - translated se = BURBESS-2 ‘Jf "course T mi a ra 2 ae . peg Se ai TS hou. ‘ we ‘By the way,: he ‘works for thi ; * Poreign Languages Publishin House. which is a kind of siste Institution ata. he one I work, for Mine ‘publishes ‘foreign “books 5 into Russian ;~ his‘ publishes foraign books in the: 4 original ‘languages and ~ Soviet") works in: Toreign IBN BUaE es,’ z " -Bution: the? RIBERG = hole youre? y-here'?y I suppose you nl i r 7 peppy. donely, sometimes ?.; 2° wondon” ang“ "trends t there, and New York sage a a