"As to tearooms-there are no peepholes, no two-way mirrors, no expensive camera apparatus, no perverse vice-squad watching 'lovingly.' True, occasionally a plainclothesman may enter a tearoom and one should not get caught in the act with the person next, but there is no entrapment. The police act only on definate complaints. One hears of trouble from time to time with the hustlers who hang around the RR station, but this doesn't effect the gay life of the city."
There is undoubtedly something to be said for just being left alone. But we in America also want the right to "win friends and influence people." Take your pick of freedoms, as it now stands.
ALIAS GUY BURGESS
Stephen Harper reporting from Moscow for London's Sunday Express, has made public that Guy Burgess of the "missing Macleans" fame now shares a comfortable home with a dark, handsome youth named Tolya. Harper went to Burgess' flat recently to learn the whereabouts of the elusive Englishman. He learned that Guy Burgess is on holiday in the Crimea but has instructed his roommate to tell callers: "If anyone asks, tell them. I'm in Cuba."
It was just noon when Harper got to Burgess' flat on the third floor of an apartment building: "Tolya, who once worked in a pit in the Donetz Basin, was playing an accordion when I called . . . . He answered the door in bright blue pajamas with the jacket open While we talked at the blackleather upholstered door of the flat a piano tinkled inside. Tolya told me that his friend Jim Androvich -the name Burgess uses herewould not be back in Moscow before 'three weeks at the earliest.'
"Tolya said he had no address or phone number for Burgess in the Crimea. He explained: 'He is touring the Black Sea coast not staying in one place.'
At Shannon airport extra police and security men stood guard as a Czechoslovakian airliner touched down. It was bound for Havana. There had been rumors that Burgess and Maclean were aboard. But the air stewardess smiled and said, "I am sorry, we have no British people aboard. Did you say Burgess and Maclean? Are they film stars?"
The British Foreign Office and Scotland Yard have been busy obtaining various warrants for the pair of diplomats ever since they skipped to Russia. They have more than once been reported to be returning to England. But they remain safe, and Burgess, at least, appears to be living comfortably.
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