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—~ ’ | Out of hiding man who figured in that incident, Mr. Harold Philby, Sfyear-old former diplomat et out of hiding yesterday. . For a fortnight the world has ‘been knocking at his door— ” ever since Lieutenant-Colonel . Marcus Lipton named him in the House of Commons as a |_ “third man” in the story. But for these two weeks Philby has been elther in his own rambling country house at Crowborough, Sussex, where he lives with his wife and five | childrea, or in his mother's | Kensington flat, . “It was all over yesterday. Harold -: Philby opened the door of his mother's 10-roomed flat in Drayton-gardens, Kepsington. Newspapermen, radio and TV men, cameramen from many countries trooped in. Philby talked freely and answered questions without hesitation. To some he had no comment— } “I am bound by the Official; rete Act.” Challenged —+-+ {Hq at once challenged Marcus ipton. “I suggest,” he sald, - “that Colonel Lipton should repeat his charges outside the privilege of Parliament.” =~ Did Philby know the runaway diplomats? “1 hardly knew Maclean. 1 had met him once or twice at the beginning of the war.” But Burgess had stayed in his house at Washington for six or eight months. “I didn't know he was a Com- munist although I had known . 4 ‘ him for 20 years.” Now I need a rest, Sod Why had Philby left the Foreign wife. “We may' 90. a! Office? oe “for a few' days. 7. “I was asked for my resignation ) [5 9-—— * ‘as a direct consequence of an No Communist prudent association.” ee : Did he mean Burgess?—Yes. | diaroid Philby declared tha . f Butgess, he said, DID drink @ Ht |” sithough his polities inclini Washington but his condv$t | to the Left, he had never beets, hardly “disgraceful” He | a Communist—“ The last time I . 4| had been sent home for stupld | socke to a Communist. knowing 3 4. _sriving offences. fam to be ® Communist was in te 1934." No, he wouldn't ask for his fob - : | pback In the Foreign Office. JEUT-COL. LIPTON said fist Inight—I propose lo makel = tatement on this matter in fhe \Miouse of Commons, Ag - Fi