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# }" Dehatable | ' But it is now becoming i ‘debatable which is the ‘fruitter = melodrama: the ‘James Bondish career of | Philby: the infamous traitor,” chimself, or the recent plat. t ting, counter-espionage and i . Se aes ‘CIA strategies throughout leet Street and the back ' fie eo . : Pe Stee at &” hasty” hotch-potch complied aloaholism, Instability snd, up with a rescal tke Burgess rooms of British publishers | from newspaper cuttings. "seedy Gubiousness which ehould{ &-. . ug he won. his second >The contestants in the race Mr. Cookridge began draft. - have got them ull the boot, wers trial, ever more pomelualvely | to reveal “the truth about Kim ing his book 12 years age when discreetly ignored. than the seeret trial staged by Philby, double agent" (ser tha - Philby was exonerated by the Have there ever been three MIS. tae Ty ‘gover of Mr. Cockridge’s hoa" Highest authority from | com- such wildly suspect characters? “Mr. Harold Macmitian: totd | faust be dealt with as they come plicity in the scandal af the Burgess, in his flat with its the world ther My, “Harold | -7~not in from the cold, but ho, other two. gamp interior decoration of Philby was » good af” and: ‘trom the, presses, , Without claiming any explo Union Jack curtains end true, had carried out his duties | Just in case anyone isa itlle *'¥e intimate knowledge ("'¥ cushions littered with the conscientiously and,‘ never''-be- | Out of touch, the bald facts Was Philby's Fag” or The debris 6f his nightly queer trayed his country.0% an sre: that ‘Harold “Kim” Spy 1 Flayed Squash With"), Srgies, All Bob away with:"{t” after , Philby (Westminster and Cam. - ne has, 1 rom his vantage point Maclean, the Foreign Office a fashion. To useia Wii8 love! bridge, now residing in Mos- 8 ident, constr geey corres- nc demonically drunk, they went, wert Gow? on behalf of the Soviets pendent, constructed an unsen. Hysterically brawling jn public Burgess, a decrepit’ dipsom- -Union, insinuated himself into sational and clarifying narra. : : al : our Becret Service. tive of this sensational ang 48d breaking up furnituze, is dea ue,08 Mioaian te. "He almost became chie!—and What “Pane nues to maze ts on the bottle and in.a drab for 34 years kept the Russians that tw committed “Comana Defended translator’s job, A : Lesa informed of our vital nists (Philby and Burgess) and Philby, compounding the-un- | . one feeble fellow traveller Philby, denounced by the savoury tangle, has married | woot {Maclean} wera able to pene- US. Intelligence and FBI, yet Maclean's ex-wife and sere: vey M t d trate 50 Petortiessly, and so still saved by Establishment ported depressed and sodden, | . at 2 deeply, Into our theoretically friends. Ji would be too easy to draw . invulnerable security enclaves. Tt is heal to be reminded | Moral out of thix. for how . _ Perhaps Mr. Cockridge's dos- The explanation of this here how Paty tri antiy ¢an the personal squalid un- | ier would more accurately be bizarre feat — which most rode the accusation that he happiness of this,-trip. be; ~entitied “The Three Men," for thriller writers would hitherto had tippedof his pair of equated with the . inyneasur- ° idt ds as much about Guy Bur have rejected as {00 prepos underlings to fly the coop, ‘able = consequences of +. their } eee, Donald Maclean es — terousiy a aaeing—ts, one Even after being named by ‘decades of ireachery® (E05 3 about their old chum and men- fear phat, stale, bu: resilient Colonel Marcus Listen ie we When —interviewed=. two! tor Philby. boWer in the land, the old-boy House, he was, innocently but months ago about his “under. ' -_ But of course the “Unhaty network. ‘tupidly, defended by oham- cover Nfe as a Sav apy, - Trinity,” as he calls them, wers Within the bastions of the pions en both sides. Philby said: I would do it 50 matted together in deceit mutual sid and self-protection, “Attogether,” writes = Mr. again tomorrow.” _and dereliction that the story = preserved by the distorted Cookridge, “Philby came ‘out The only useful hop" tr ‘that : ‘could not faithfully be told loyalty of school and alass so}i- of this debate extremely well.” the lesson has been ‘learned | any other emphasis. darity, the conspirators sure" A man who had given eminent. and that the gentlemanly days ' It ls by now all faitly fam- ‘vived and flourished. | service to Ais country had hat have gone when Philny and his Alar terrain, but this ‘ls not = ‘The flagrant homosemuaiity, the misfortune of being mixed kind could do M again, — * ¥