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dee " He produced no shred of evidepce support that threat. under whjch T have now lived for 12 days. Last night in the House Lifton again refused to prod evidence, refused to withdraw the charge and refused to repeat It out. side the House, In justification of his refusal to repeat [t outside the House, he indulged in the extra- ordinary verbal 1 gvipnastie of saying that even Mr. Philby had not aske him to do 80. “I suggest he repeats the charge outside the House and. produces evidence or, if the evidence really {x so secret, he should forward it, a8 he suggests, to a judicial member of the Privy Council and meanwhile withdraw the charge until member has had & chanc jning the evidence and pronouncing upon it.” REQUEST TO RESIGN “dmprudent Association” ir, Paliby vald he Gesigned from reign, Office. Rh Trophy “1 certainly regard the Tediest to resign as a direct conse quence of an imprudent, —that is, with Burgess.’ He had know! off. “since undergraduate days Cambridge. For eight months bet his return to London in May, 1951 Burgess lived at his hou ington. “I more or less spol him in that rather hectic soci Washington.” nsore 2 e of exam-|* request, in association mn Burgess, on and fore ise in Wash- cd ety of three times on the me Vv ir. Philby said he was geri red at] what Burgess had done “on }he ‘bigger issue.” even more than abgut its effect on his own career.“ But ‘there are fair weather [riends and foul weather friends, and I prefer ‘to belong to the second category.” Asked if this meant he stil! con- sidered himself a friend of Burgess, he sald it meant he was not goin to Indulge in mudslinging. He me . Maclean in 1937 or 1938 and again Just before or after the outbreak of war, but he was only @ shadow in his memory. ‘Mr. Philby sald his own political development had been unspectacu- lar, He was @ member of the Sociatist Society at Cambridge. .“ I have never been a Communist, though I knew people who were Communist at Cambridge and for a year afterwards. “The last time I spoke to a Com- nist, knowing he was one, was iD 1§34." He had always been “on the ince leaving the Foreign Offce had been a free lance writer fon fofeign affairs. “A book now jin manscript form would touch on fhe Maclean-Burgess affair. but ofly “episodically” in dealing with ternational affairs. Mr. Philby sald his wife and five children were staying with friends , outside London, - NO REPLY BY MP. | “Statement in House” * Lt.-Col. Lipton did not reply to ‘the chailenge of Mr. Philby "last night. but said: “I propose to make a Statement I the House.” i It is understood that Col, Lipton, will seek the permission of the’ Speaker to make a personal state- ment. Such statements, by leave of He never knew Burgess WS & the Speaker, are made immediately ist. Burgess’ political Communist, 1, Burkes Benge after questions in the House of would adjust his sake of argument- urgess had many: diferent spheres of. life. He ceful in any sense of the wo nto me, He was sent home {i a dhiving offence: Arte + SR a a Ce eae a pe is attitude for the. ‘withtirerpeople.:* O.K.”-With Mr. Philby friends [in id Cot. Lipton’s decision ik but, “his behaviour was npt. Statement in the House he said: Te was caught Commons. They are not debatable. When Mr, Phipy was informed of to make @ “T cannot comment further unt after the hon. ,and gallant Megber {gr Brixton has opened his tray c@pt to say that I hope he wi paat his charge and produce! eWdence, or he should with Egher way, it is absolutely wh me.’ it EK,