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i a Poet re va “ft E'put this’ somewhat 'naive antithesis to his eoni-“a grades “his comrades didnot. all Agree with him. <j yee asked himselt what point there was in remaln-,-: ing @ member of the party.’: (Many years later he was able ~ te convince. the Far Eastern Department of the Forelgn + Ol tne correctness of. the thesis which he ¢gmmend "to the Cambridge’ Communists) B he falled 0 “| He therefore resigned from the Communist Party, little : . me his promising academic career, ve ag aa He wanted a wider field of * mbat than elther party or ‘} versity could provide. He and . j net ; ' Donald Maclean ‘saw this fleld we, - 4 the public-service... ”’- . _ _,No two young men could have |; ,, altered the whole course of his- | * tory in those pre-war years. But . these two lost no chance of | f t ‘exercising influence in the; direction which they believed to ,| be right oct To this end it was of the ut- 1 most value that their birth anf upbringing enabled them ' bee tune in. effortlessly to the “ol j . > boy network": and: Guy, ab. _ least, “cynically and conk | * sciously,” as he himself told me," . exploited this advantage tothe ; , ful — except that, as he also :! : sald, he could never bother to. . keep his finger-nalls clean, .” :- ‘| :f. ™ , “ate ou t Py '. He uses the ‘network? “ Be 1 E could not“ enter the public service directly. ; efter Cambridge. Be. cause he had gone up to Cam-. t bridge Jate—when. he was ‘194. ean stayed! there. two:4 tiyears over the-n ating, t+ + was “ee late for ‘him* to” take” the iv. Service 5:-en ¢ examinations, ees eobrance. i The next best thing seemed to. + ta be “public service * fi ; apy kind ; he felt that this te i cpvered such great organs, ¥ at is now called the “ Es’ ithe B.BOwi ss Pa oe fy white he ; tet Tring Ao p ie gn i. Bee Aree 4 rd Paes ornin” nike g AB warm, & | ‘' means satisfied with the political | rethan a year after Joining it: and gave up at the same lpBhment *, as The Times | 8. it ; as exploring bie 7! fl ohpe. gs (through::) | ork”), he 2 stay”. ridge °- . friend. Victor.” | (now Lord) .'] . oat the dine 7 8 ner table there was much, talk: ‘of world politics ; the house of Rothschild had been deeply dis< vturbed .by’ Hitler's accession to r wer :i Victor’s * mother,’ Mrs. harles RothSchild, was by no. information of those in ¢ -of the Britigh branch of e dynasty, A+ |. ol “Mrs Rothschild told Guy - that the prevailing outlook at ‘their - headquarters at - New Couzt, in the Clty, was that of ‘a traditional 18th-century bank-., kin house and that they were: out of touch with the wes tf Pe. a adhe ren ie tof the modem world). > {She was much Impressed by. ¢ Guy's extemporancous assess ynlents of world affairs. ge 3 ‘|For instance, the Rothschilds ? owned the ratlways in a Latin- 7 “American republic, Guy" said that these railwaya were shortly | going to be nationalised,’ and ? “that the Rothschilds ought to’. liquidate this investment a8 * . quickly as possible, They _ id ae esuy'a '” prediction ©” provpa Y _ Guy's. prediction" p L correct: the Rothschilds. lqpt, heavily. : 4 vs — Mrs. Rothschild recalled that! — ear or two earlier, during &f tacation from Cambridge, Guy |, had decided. by academic. ; litteal analysis, that @ rise - { RP the value of armament shares. L-was due.. and /had et : ce shares as the : Pacey had ‘invested.’ He - tells. iM SS Gane é HE Snows 2. therefore. invited him to become, | ave On Siang 2 4 “basis, ber personal finangai ad- cviser; gave hima lst of all her investments, In. her “own “writing : and asked him to write4 her & monthly report, for which tshe paid him an, allowance, of B00 a monthe, opie tg og . | Ag. Appeasement * continged ahd the international: situatipn i, worse. Guy waa, forced |to 6, conclusion , that elther” 9