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ae _ .~ x ‘hy 4 a . "have done what they were sald im : to have done. . . Fortunately, the friend whom | : 7 ‘I gave the letter to, asking him -: vn ee re oe ‘to see that Bera got it. was so. .tervified that he never passed it on, If he had I'd propanly have. been shot, , toe : j “ght 1 nave become used 1 we cr . ys of solitude, and on I ole 1] iike it. 1 read an enor ¥ Nor am ‘1 a Russo hil as ; mbus lot—I've read Most of the): *such, Like Harold Nicolson, 7 : “Everyman library. . : “T have never been a victim of - I lead @ very quiet ite: Y try gint eharm.” “Sometimes they * 8 get to my dacha {most even- _are maddening. though 1 get on t "ings—iV's less that 40 minis’ Svery well with my own Cole ve from the office. : leagues. - Ky . © In*London my main expendl- , Ss an wae ? ture was on drink and Tager-, * we ; ; ettes, They're both cheap here. ae x, * se . Mn IT always smoke these very cheap «.,. fel ga&rettes—Prima,. thev'Te ned called The people at the omige © * say I oughtn't Lal OT. despite sill ‘the + = I drink only wine—this Caucs- rn things that are wrong Be sian white wine, whenever Ican # veehonestly, I'm not et it, Hardly ever vodka, unicss 4 “wrying to- do propaganda—it is m sick, «It’s the best cure for a Socialist: country) “sand there - upset ‘stomach, we “ihe ig areal“ kind of {democracy . Beale! " developing, different from ours, — * ; 4 but real. And living init is ; ‘the feather-bed after the chalse- = longue, you know,t,, ; can tye ee t . Sometimes, yes, L'am lonely. + ere o Td iike to nave mgood Fossie . g. - ALWAYS refuse vodka w Some 0: r +h at tr ab partles—it's not nse for the Junimportan . a easy, Somehow © om ly for” . - don't usually. need it, In‘ London I was. lonely for oe ; You’ know, Tom, living in i ban Socialist country does have a- : therapeutic effect on one. I know people at home will, oa 1 find this difficult to pelleve, but _, ; this is a tolerant country. As © you know, I'm an old-fashioned, : THE OLD +” lWincontury. dogmatic abel. SCHOOL TIE’. Oddly enough, It's only aince * pounce Hving in Russia that I've learned to respect those who bes the important things—I was fete faa og Jjeve in religion . . « 9 some of lonely for Soplallsm. re tes: ‘ perm. 2 - DRIBERGs* on. Tr the Don't think’ I'm“ starry-eyed " 4 . ut this place, tL ean't stand | 1c. ‘ that ‘attitude. Nor can they— o, ithe Russian, I mean,’ ° Roe, . sians knew that you'd worked for the British Secret Service . why weren't they, at all, well suspicious of you? — Because I never : S (2 1 eriticise things” here, and , BURGESS: made any secret - _ they take serlous criticism seri of tt‘ told. them perfectly * that I'd worked for the -’ open! 4 Service—just as with the - T'was a Marxist. . . The attitude of the British * & am matter of tact: ‘ they tell me Tm lucky =. : e Blive. : At the : time of that disgraceful business eh of the " doctors’ plot”: I wrote’ “8 harp note to Beria telling him’, e was wrong. and telling him} % iS hy I knew he was wrong—be-_ Sey age dt : a! we cea eh ANS me A of ‘the’ story.3: ‘The drama’’ began : * many i wee, 4 ause I'd had a lot’ ot: dealing years before—and while-I was a n Washington with “JOINT” Moscow: I" had the oppor- : The. American Jewish. Joint. “tunity of discussing Guy Burgess -:. “and. Donald Maclean with an - io istribution Commitice] and I ute student‘of .character- who.” knew. ee Haye could. nok’, Posse I" a ve Ele Se yaks * nad known them both weil f “ most of thelr adult life.;. ° , ols family were. canine on: A They are, ino any ‘ this friend emphasised eetotally: : untike each other in character. ‘ and temperament. ve . + Scottish governin . mising as Jono Hen son of a i” y thrift and-|- s pe eae ‘'* Secret Service and M.15 I never _ : +made any secret of the fact that .° ee have ‘sought to anes * : carn cuttd ; UT. that was ‘the ‘allmax ‘ ET eT mld . : I Was in Moscow because he f " Guy sasured': ime’ “that “guere Wag no truth In the “Press. Tumour of ® breach between | * them 1 ‘they saw each .owher |; : opcasionally and. were, atili; on” “friendly terms. haar gets! ie 43 “Maclean, he sald rigid; gustere, an man who rose perseverance - to O, a Liberal Cabinet Minister. To the Foreign Office he seemed per fecha" Mesh ot thelr, esh." HE Galro’ breakdown was the sort of thing, that could have hep: pened to anyone who had bgen overworking : once the doctera said that he had recovered, it” would have seemed gross) o fair to penalise for il-healthes . career diplomat so - oulstand-: ingly brilliant and so congenial.: Burgess was an entirely dif- ferent sort of person It seemed Probable that he got more emotional satisfaction than the doctrinaire intellectual Maclean - out of their joint enterprise, and. our mutual friend likened him .- to an old-fashioned anarchist or.: to Dijerjhinsky, the Polish’, ‘gountry squire and humanist, who supported the Bolshevist"! * Revolution. This comparison is Interest, Burgess has indeed, like.’ changed sides in} the class struggle. The eircum-*) -stances of his childhood were ‘sufficiently comfortable, pod in *; due course he was sent [in Jan- 7 wary 1924, when he was. nearly ; 13) to ston. ade as OME ‘of’ "those who} lyse his may be surprised to learn that there Is in the story of his]. ‘schooldays no element either oti persecution ; i or’ of: precocious revolt, . 3 . He was neither a drunk “an sesthete ; “f his - Interest © -, politics was not “awakenad : ‘early :. and when’ the Gener: : Strike occurpad in 1926 his att ! tude, ie it, Was. that. common. | ew - demo Fw, b <SOY