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Gevelopmen in Chine as’ was! member of one or other British| A sele® aed o) semble? ih intelligence organisation, 1 had chosen so eeiitical ratrategy: : _ every reason to believe that be] (to Oo arene ‘41 ates yl art had Jong ago abandoned: his| the Far cast ene were dpe, work for the Cominterp..-"--:5.:): Some.of the expert ot re me lomats. some were _.Jalversity. fem i wees i ofessora- and some were: a ad Remrarcesn ns “events on the spate 005 aoe but EMondered none ni. And one, believe it or nobe:S. jens organisation. One day I)” Stercayee” Russia “wpy deh ‘ince sudden, d PS A: asked him just that “He refused : livered a complete lecture op (*. volved aay cpinion. Before “a? tiv ail ce irritated me. Bo !! Red: China ‘to this top level. i’). what was happening, A'y Ha to provoke “him {nto ' 204 _ highly ‘secret conference visient argument had”) coming out with the truth. of Britain's foreign represen» ot er eae TE ~ praanfllent helt ~ entire Far"? Eastern “|” Thay was Aig Or pectable ‘ques icNeil- and Lie beat! ned “I have kept a complete — tatives. iant perform: | Then ene of the te " record of what you said about. It. was @ brilliant pe lifted a wine bottle and hit “3 : outs sce.” For without disclosing , of his fellow guesta on thas¢ being a Comintern agent” I 111.’ own sympathies he made s / E head witht a ak / said. “For my own protec’. "powerful case for British - LE i " tion I have deposited a atale- : very: powe - — after a time, some\sort of _ ment with my’ lawyer.” nN diplomatic recognition |of, whe” order Was restored, © * 1. th a : 4 en! Ths reaction startled me,” He |, "6% regime. * | Doticed that the second. ofthe became violently agitated. — Not long afterwards, Britfin toughs had vanished...” ~ “why have you done it?” did indeed recognise | the - Ole ter I learned that nef hed he cried. “Please destroy the Chinese Reds. Guy can claim. | ametked away to the house are statement, Don’t you know that) fs in that important act of : | one of the other guesta,,a disqj that he played a significant . af a ~~] policy . * tinguished writer -~ and - stolen, att ¢, eer 5 bee Ba ne es aa the «Foreign ‘| some of his property | He S20 Ay : tke it ever came to light fmm [ seems ithat the Mor yl A few days after the party.g egreer would be ruined?” " ffice was” leased weh*,| Guy left for Washington, 2 a0) — Pohad difficulty in calming ~ ‘him. yor a yea Tater cathe “| Several letters from him. ate ‘him down, I assured him that- advancement. He was appointed “; these and from mutual friends ‘I / there was no statement, His ‘to our Embassy in Washington. | learned that be was, not very} fear‘ finally left him. -- ‘las a full-fledged representative .| Happy there, | i. Chg kag ES “But the 'ncident made me ‘| of His Majesty's Government, ‘| |. | From all accounts, ‘his’ con es Bceuft Sur le Toit” 8 ; paeaay. aT wes now sure that | Before-he went he gave a i}: fuct in America WB8 aa wild as fe zen & Communist '|-farewell party ‘in his Band | it Was at Home. O3. r eae Day \ Guy was there one even-~ , agent ‘The only question that | Street flat. It was an occasion |) 3.3: > ‘ ae “g ng drinking with a Foreign: remained was—Aad he ceased |Z shall never forget. ¢ «|= * In disgrace? [4 Office colleague.";There was. be one? oe" TS Tinew that his friends were sl cis an argument," (': . =, 4 , Guy was at this time Personal ‘Ia very curlous assortment of .|j-_ He ..W8s living “with: Kim The argument ended hy Guy's’ Secretary to the Minister of J people. But even I was not | Philby, who was second’ & colleague pushing him down St#te, Mr. Hector McNell. And §prepared for the incongruous | tary tf the Embassy.& post he® the staircase. he remained in that position f assembly of personalities which }{ had been given afters plghly., Guy. landed atthe bottom— : Until Mr. McNeil became Secre- “ji gathered to say farewell to Guy. »}{ distinguished career “in -- Shay on-his head. In fact he got’ ay of State for: Scotiand in i Thera was Hector McNeil, “af Intelligence Seryice.} Be Reed severe concussion. vat ets K oS Wat ccaretary- of Btate- for tf .- My heart bled for Guy's host, ‘The effecta were alarming He - r, Kenneth Younger re ‘isecotiands®? co 8 Ot’ Op and eyen- more f = hls « hdst'e2 i po ot began to suffer from - severe Placed Mr. McNeil as Minister | ‘There ‘was the German, ° headaches, He- became more. ont State. And Mr,. Younger, || -Baron Putitz, who risked his: : and more addicted to drugs.of° Over his predecn did ‘not take. life to spy for Britain” belore -/ BH sorts: wah Atty athe Forel n ofice Secretary... /and during the war-and is now % ' These, combined with aleo- | confidence on G ce had more ; jlving in East Berlin, | *¢i.*+ 4 ‘badly that he: was: in. disgrace hol, made him pretty ‘well: Younger evident! ry wan Mr.’x. |‘ There were two: tough -young’ | at the Embassy. ts fly insensible for .. considerable just transferred him to th They -, fmen who looked as though they’) The. Ambassador. went:, periods. When he was not’: Eastern department,’ 0 the Far"; had been: picked’ off the streets..' | nome. I met him shortly efter at aa eeoteeee lan mw aan leu silent or morose, his apeech i an “amazin Haast where, in* : AY NONE ‘ his TQwIn i: Wins. 400s wees was rambling and incoherent, ~. time, he Wa, entrusted with a he Tapped *p hone. =yp 8 few weeks before -he dean! The = Foreign’ Office ¢ could... ne ae hardly help learning of’ Guy's; ~:° behaviour, But it had no effect « .-; on his. career. Rate Mite ret oo or Jturg his "“yrienda & 0" inst him. :Guy: had’. 3: Pq@ling charm that made, ell 6 2 had just rere 20 wer. Aller their’ uq forgive his excesses. i are Ke Fahek’ Th agalnat.2 . "9 ‘*¥et there was one thing dboue .- Foreign Office: sed ies a eee A, oem wifes ig, a Within, a.” year, My 7 WopEty forebodings ° aboyty Guy-:. were, “reatised, | He had misbehaved so Se 4 33 EE There was a young man who, + f ‘4] -some time before, had tapped a. 4 j telephone when Guy wanted to, ‘ig (hear ths? secret: conversations : jot m foreign politicians tr 4h Wi Prhere ewere “three” disting-: ! e puished ‘'mmembers: “of * M.1.6,"24 * Ther: Wart Ofice intellig tore oh, and: MLS, + ‘sf sonal * letter: from, Anthanz “Eden, then Foreign Secretary; Mf" Eden, ‘ashe. then’,