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+ Reade as Out of hiding Onq man who figured in that incident, Mr. Harold Philby, S}year-old former diplomat came out of hiding yesterday. For a fortnight the world has ‘peen knocking at his door— ever since Lieutenant-Colonel - . Marcus Lipton named him in’ ” the House of Commons as a ) “third man” In the story. But for these two weeks Philby has been elther in his own rambling country house at Crowborough, Sussex, where he lives with his wife and five : ¢hildrea, or in his mother’s ; Kensington flat, ‘Tt was all over yesterday. Harold Philby opened the door of his ; mother’s 10-roomed flat in Drayton-gardens, Kensington. Newspapermen, radio and TV men, cameramen from many countries trooped in. Philby talked freely and answered questions without hesitation. To some he had no comment— ' “YT am bound by the Official rete Act.” Challenged §q@- at once challenged Marcus . ipton, “I suggest,” he said, - “that Colonel Lipton should repeat his charges outside the privilege of Parliament,” Did Philby know the runaway diplomats? “j hardly knew Mactean, 1 had met him once or twice at the beginning of the war." But Burgess had stayed in his house at. Washington for six or’ eight months. “I didn't know he was a Com- -munist although I had known . ‘him for 20 years.” Why had Philby left the Foreign Office? “I was asked for my resignation as a direct consequence of an prudent association.” Did he mean Burgess?—Yes. Bufgess, he said, DID drink a Washington but his cond hardly “ disgraceful.” had been sent home for stu _driving offences. t 1 e id SS yer 3 at . al ar 2 hye cot “™ wr . : - In'some things I know Lam dvound to siience: by .the , Offielal’ Secrets Act. - Now I need a rest,’ So ades y wife, “We may 90 ayay .. * Sfor'a few days. - ae e No Communist Harold Philby declared that. although his polities inclin to the Left, he had never beer! , a Communist—-“ The last time f spoke to a Communist, knowing’ him to be a Communist was in: | 1934." .No, he wouldn’t ask for his job | pback in the Foreign Office. JEUT-COL. LIPTON said fast night-—-I propose to make] a _ statement on this matter in fhe \, Wtouse of Commons. : 4 Are Set try es a a en “ wetintes ~~ ai a a i | |