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—as OTD a Has\ SECOND THOUGHTS DAILY EXPRESS LONDON, ‘ SNGLAND FEB, 24, 1959 Express Staff Reporter MOSCOW, Monday. BURGESS is having. UY G second thoughts to- night about his appeal to Mr. Macmillan to be allowed to visit Britain to act his mother. Burgess. the former Foreign Office man who came to Russia nearly eight years ago, appealed te the Prime Minister through a ritish reporter today Ba Pe e lain that. should hy he «go to gland, he uld want a “aafe conduct“ ck to Moscow. ut tonight Burgess told me: ernap: I have raised the tler at an untimely moment. iédon‘t went io distract aiten- tion more t Qffain, now taking place ta| Moscow. ' Would Britain xearTanies him & safe return to Official British sources in Moscow woud not comment. But I understand that the Prime Minister's staff have passed Burgess's Ppeal to to the British a eurres said this morning : “I am astonished cover e furore in the British Press in connection with the two-year-old story of my intention to return to Engiand for family reasons." NOTE: This iz the first time that Burgess has sperifigally asked for a safe conduct. Two and a half years a ne told a visiting journalist Moscow : “ Bome day I bo we §0 back to Engund when Sine cold war ” -~ rd