RL
and her brother
were hounded by members of the press for information about Communist agent Guy Burgess
(who with Donald Maclean
had defected from the British Foreign Office to Russia).
Lehmann, John. In My Own Time. Little, Brown, 1969.
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politics
Rosamond Lehmann
RL
knew Guy Burgess
in the late 1930s through Goronwy Rees, and she knew early on that he was a Comintern
agent. When the news came in June 1951 that he had gone to Russia,...
Publishing
Rebecca West
Over the next two decades RW
published several revised and updated versions of this work. In 1956 Pan Books
(London) published a new edition of The Meaning of Treason in which West eliminated some discussion...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Lesley Storm
This play effectively portrays the aftermath in Britain of the defection of Guy Burgess
and Donald Maclean
, who fled to the Soviet Union on 25 May 1951 after years of spying for Communist
Russia...
Timeline
25 May 1951: Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, friends from...
National or international item
25 May 1951
Guy Burgess
and Donald Maclean
, friends from their Cambridge
days, who had been spying for the Soviet Union from positions of some influence within the British establishment, fled to Russia.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
13 February 1956: Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, English spies...
National or international item
13 February 1956
Guy Burgess
and Donald Maclean
, English spies who had fled on 25 May 1951 to the Soviet Union (whose undercover agents they had been), gave a press conference which riveted British attention on the...
January 1963: Kim Philby, perhaps the cleverest of the...
National or international item
January 1963
Kim Philby
, perhaps the cleverest of the group of Britons who had been spying for Soviet Russia for years, was confronted with his guilt and offered immunity in exchange for a full confession. Instead...
15 November 1979: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher revealed...
National or international item
15 November 1979
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher revealed that Sir Anthony Blunt
, distinguished art historian and Master of the Queen's Pictures, had spied for Soviet Russia.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.