HM GOVERNMENT SPIES (LONDON)

Absolutely nobody has asked how it can be that Comrade Colonel Professor Winters, leader of the Presteigne Soviet and hard line Herefordshire Communist generalissimo, can somehow have wandered about Central London, at the height of the VBCW, without being apprehended by His Majesty's Government.

Long term readers of this blog will recall that, having followed him from Paddington Station to the CPGB Headquarters at Covent Garden, and then from Covent Garden to the Temple, we last heard of Winters trembling at the gate of the Soviet Embassy at 13, Kensington Gardens, desperate to avoid repatriation and liquidation by Stalin following Winters' defeat at the "Disaster at Dinmore". [note 1]

Embankment by Temple, 1930s. An intelligence agent keeps watch ?

One explanation might be that HMG knew exactly where Winters was at all times, simply trailing him around London to discover more information. These contemporary photographs suggest this was the case.

Temple Cloisters. This intelligence agent waits for Winters
exit from the Chambers of D.N.Pritt KC. A London smog predominates.

Notes:

(1). Commissar Moody, of the Presteigne Bureau Disinformitzya, has vigorously denied any "trembling" on the part of Comrade Colonel Professor Winters. Instead, it is said that Winters "maintained a manly Soviet bearing at all times".

(2).  For the "Disaster at Dinmore", see HERE. To track Winters' peregrinations about London, check out the "Communist" blog label to the right; for more on Spies and Intelligence Men in the VBCW, check out the "Spies" blog label to the right, or simply head to THIS POST