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- ,. .The twq Sunda’ if- . fePnrtine date anduaes oF his . ; recraltment by Soviet intelli- gence, but both agree that it was in the early nineteen- thirties and that Philby’s as- { signment was to penetrate Brit-! ish intelligence. His qualifications es a jour- nalist, established during the Spanish Civil War, led to his employment in’ British intelli- gence. Harold Evans, editor of The Sunday Times, feels sttongly! that the Philby disclosures will: make many people “wonder just what kind of social and Hhimisttative strictere=tef up to this fantastic infiltrati He-pereres it will I a need for reforms in many spheres. But David Astor, owner and editor of The Sunday Observer, laughs off the social signifi- cance of the story. “As I see it, there is no social meaning in it,” he said. “Philby could have deceived anybody. The Rus- sians, like us, recruit their | agents among the socialiy satis- fied segments of their society. It is silly to blame the ‘old boy network.’" The “old boy network” Is a reference to the tribal confi-: dence and mutual backscratch-: ing said to exist among the: graduates of exclusive, class- oriented British private schools that have traditionally supplied a large percentage of British Ubiteservants, “eee? The Plan icance of the Phil-* wreerete that fstvotrvfing ye Britons was expressed by. this week's Spectator maga- zine. It said: “While there are master minds and active bodies like Philby and Blake at work in Moscow, we had better watch out. If they hava not actually left some time bombs behind they are considering how to get them into position now.” ; George Blake is another Brit« ish spy, who last October es- \caped from Wormwood Scrubs ‘prison where he was serving & 42-year sentence. | In the same week that The jSunday Times was publishing la picture of Philby in Red Square, other newspapers were publishing pictures of Blake switaming in a Cautasterttike. etme A Maks fee, hilo ‘aie ' "ey ae ‘an 2 om, Ege ne. wie oe sabre SS, Ot . eek oN bere fa neil hk a e