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Philby with Yemeni revolutionaries in 1962. Man ‘in L THE MAN at the top left of the picture is, of course, Kim Philby. It is not a new pic- ture: it was taken in Sep- “tember 1962 inthe” Yemen ~ while Philby was a. reporter . -for the Observer, and just before he physically defected ne "Th was discov _dnterest..’ yesterday by the Associated Press agency and is worth publishing because it sums up the extraordinary episode of _Philby-mania that,,Britain is— ‘passing through now. At pre-_ sent any snap of Philby, however irrelevant, however valueless as a picture, has an Anyone who’ knew. Opus WR him, or knew someone who knew him, however casually, in his pre-notorious days 1s assured of an audience. Can this chap with the kind-uncle ‘face really’ have snéaked on the entire British Secret Ser- vice and gone over to the Reds? Surely. it is a plot to _Giscredit the upper: classes? one vanished at that white suit is Colonel Sallal, now Pre: While - these ¢ out thi if, by s you hi: va hith ‘of Ph icoks soreo 29