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and that was that. I went to see him in the hospita every day. They stopped him id q @rinking, and pumped him full of vitamins. They tried to stop him - smoking, but he said: ‘I'll do any- linda thing in the world for you, bul irmed hot that.’ The Russians very much rude,» Wanted to keep him alive. He was ecteee " presumably still valuable to them, ‘tical; OT it mayghhave been their way of , paying trifute to the long services » he had rdfidered them. They kep! that. him therefor over a month, taking vd tg’ 90 chance cisive self.” On the morning after May Day, . first When Kim was waiting to go to some the clinic, Sergei and two other > BR, Soviet officials came to his bedside to inform him that he had been awarded a high Soviet decoration the Order of the Red Banner. As usual, I was not allowed in the room:* but after they had left | found Kim in a high state of ex- citement. TI would have toved to see the decoration, but they decided to delay the format ceremony until vi he came out of hospital. He said to me with deep pride thai it was {| Worth a good deal more to him than his OBE or his medal from q Franco, which he was not particu- , “f larly proud to have. 1 ® One aflernoon, with Kim by this te time out of danger, I went to see vee A NTO air Cie ONG ‘ucky break. Au revoir, darting, Your sincerely devoicd Kim. and every possible Kim and J still exchange Jetters, but these days usually through my lawyer, He has no doubt done some wicked things in his life, but I am not very concerned with questions of Patriotism or treason. I do not see that it is up to me, his wife, to praise or blame him for his politics. T remember him as a tender, intelligent and sentimental hus- band. I am sure that he must still have some of these qualities, even though I am no longer there to enjoy them. He betrayed many people, me among them. But men are not always masters of their fate. Kim had the guts, or the weakness, to stand by a decision made 30 years ago, whatever the cost to those who toved him most, and to whom he, too, was deeply attached. He does not like pop music, but a while ago I sent him a Beatles record—* Help! * I thought it was appropriate; but } am not sure whether it best describes his situ- ation-——or mine. Copyright Eleanor Philby / Patrick © P Seale 1967, . Cay Gf CHEE GG technolo: Marconi alone » accounts for 1% of the United Kingdom's grc national investment i! Research & Developm This represents 20% « thetotalR&D expenditure by the Br electronics industry. @ Such consistent, [/arge-scale investmer y ensures not only *\ Marconi’ S OWN SUIVIV. but also that of Britair in the international market-place of advanced electronic technology. THE QUEEN'S AWARD TO INDUSTRY 1966 1967 - U The Marconi Company Limited AN ‘ENGLISH ELECTRIC’ COMPANY . Marconi House, Chelmsford, Essex, England