Innocents Abroad And this feeling was confirmed during a talk
I had on Monday with Mr. Antonin Buzek, ex- head of the Czechoslovak news agency in Lon- don, who has asked for political asylum here. Mr. Buzek was emphatic about the success of Communist officials in recruiting British dupes and gulls. He had already recounted some of his conclusions but was only too glad to enlarge on such matters as the use made of Communist trade unionists by foreign intelligence services, and the steps by which a contact is lured into the net. He also had some relevant remarks about our innocents abroad. Some time ago a British delegation went to Czechoslovakia. Its mem- bers having probed (as they thought) the state of the Czech economy, they came back and wrote articles which gave pleasure in Prague. When the officials responsible for receiving these delegates came to London in their turn, they boasted to Mr. Buzek of their skill in pulling the wool over the eyes of their English visitors.
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