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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 39
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presented Mr.
third world war. On the talks, he
id significantly, “ We have found !
seful.” He hoped that they wdul
wing positive results, and no sess
significantly -he said that he was
that Mr. Macmillan wanted agreenfent.
A little more cautiously be said that,
if everything could aot be solved at
once, they on the Soviet side thought
much of Mr. Macmillan's frankness and
his understanding of “the interests not
only of your country and your side bu
of our country and our side.”
During the evening Mr. Macmilla
Khrushchev with
George ] walnut bookcase, nearly 9f
tall. anda pair of Georgian silver cand
sticks. For Mrs. Khrushchev (who was
dinner service for 12, and two Jrish Jinen
tablecloths with sapkins. For Ts.
Gromyko there were cut crystal tdble
glasses for 24 people. ;
Beyond the few references made in the
affer dinner speeches. nothing has
emerged in any detail about the tals.
t there is pp doubt that Mr. Macmillan
apd Mr. Khrushchev have soon foubd
at they could speak to each other
rank!y
7
at they eet forth their Govern-
BS cathy See a re es
ment's views and policies in a divided
world,
STUDENT EXCHANGE
After luncheon at the embassy, where
he was joined by the heads of mission
of all the Commonwealth countries
represented here, Mr. Macmillan went
_ this afternoon to the towering building
of Moscow University. .
Mr. Macmillan and the Foreign
Secretary were greeted by the rector.
Mr. Peirovsky, and in his study on the
ninth floor short speeches of greeting
and good will were exchanged. The
Prime Minister touched briefly but
pointedly on the hope of freer exchanges
between the two countries—the hope
that is now to be taken up here in the
informal discussions. He said that the
university had won great fame in
centuries of life. and many of
s—such as /Lermontov, Chekhap,
Térgengy, and other:-—were well kno
Marhet in Rritain
1n_ Brita.
Hoi preseni, as ii was a men's al
he presented a silver tea service, a :
DIRECT APPEAL
e then made a direct appeal fof a
gr@ater fiow of British writings to
allowed io Russia. “1 believe,” he sdid,
“thai it would be of areat value if mere
Efiglish books and journals were avail-
able in the shops here, so that the many
students of English in the Soviet Union
could read our modern writers as well
as our classical authors. There are
other writers than Tolstoy and
Dickens.”
Russians afterwards said that the
Prime Minister did not seem to realize
that maoy modern British authors are
read by students here, and that be was
wrong if he was implying, as they
thought he was, that knowledge of
Britain stopped with the reading of
Dickens. They recalled that he had men-
tioned Dickens once before ip his speech
at the airport. But in fact Mr. Macmilla
this afternoon was specifically hopin
thijt more books by modern Bryi
authors could be bought in shops.
BURGESS'S REPORTE
MOVE FOR VISIT
wee meee meee
FROM GUA DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENT
After reports from Moscow that Guy
Burgess, the former Foreign Office
official, wished to revisit the United
Kingdom, a Foreign Office spokesman
said yesterday that so far as was known
no application for renewal of Burgess's
passport had been made to the British
Embassy in Moscow,
He added that the decision on whether
to prosecute Burgess, if be returned, lay
with the Attorney-General. No charge
has been preferred against Burgess, but
¢ White Paper on the Maclean
urgess case said that, according
elkov, the former Soviet diplomatic
retary who defecte] in Aus .
urgess had acted as a spy.
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