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~ i™ Lady ct a Ld asful. ; was hot very” succesat . mPhiby” did’ better::"He ‘earned - Russian. (as: Buygess had ever stata Mone), loved the intense-.cold, tie. i ‘and—provided he was praised ‘ ee "iby, the K G B—seemed to-think 4 ‘that life in Moscow needad, np " dustification. What is most striking An's ‘all this is Philby’s extraordinary.. “egotism. By his secret treachery, “qancealed from her and, never -even afterwards justified to, her, | the had drageed his wife to this -dreadful world. “ He never ance aid to me, ‘I've landed you in va situation you perhaps did nat wniticipate when you married | ‘me.’ He never seemed to think - “ WwRY justification was peces-_ /ary.” He himself had made. sactifices for the sake of. the ‘KG B. For that “he had broken “with men he liked and lost,their aespect, taken up with men he disliked, deserted his family, embarked on a lifetime of lies vand shabbiness. Now what.was Important was that these tremendous sacrifices shoulg be “recognised.” ‘ “He evidently never thought of others’ sacrifices. When ‘the ‘wife who had sacrificed ‘her ‘life, and to whom he wrote love- Netters expressing absolute “de- ‘Votion, asked him direct, “ What ‘fs’ more important in ‘your ‘Hife, me and the children jor the Communist Party?!” he jatiswered firmly and without moment's hesitation, “ The "Party of course.” This abso- ,lule egotism, once he‘ had ‘chosen his course, is _Perhaps “Pn enat av tr ake cee, aH 20d) ACY LU his Charattéer~ AND HOW wil! it end? Ip ‘his public interviews, which ate! an exercise in Russian propaganda, phe insists that he is happy, Kcomplacent about the past, confident of the future. ry “haps his egotism, if sufficigntly flattered, will sustain him in-a world of Privileged illusion, Perhaps not. Already in 1964, below the surface, Mrs Philby . +i detected “a sea of sadness”: bin spite of his discipling, #1 wwsensed in him a profound -gloom.” Like Burgess, - like ‘ . < Maclean, he escaped “ by drink = » .jng himself into insensibility,” | . “Tn Moscow this seems to be.a ,ftandard response. As his useful- hess to the Russians declines~ and by now, for all their pybllc _ flattery, he must i hin a or ess-—thig m or hin}, ag for vdessetht Bel tay tt ae wae - ? - . . on we ua ae rai at ee = oe <5: a Sony noe toes ‘ and gh ’ Pye we ‘ naa