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. The twg Sunda: i . ite date ana recruitment by Soviet intelli- gence, but both agree that it! was in the early nineteen- thirties and that Philby’s signment was to penetrate Brit-' ish intelligence. His qualifications es a jour- nalist, established during the; Spanish Civil War, led to his employment in’ British intelli- gence. Harold Evans, editor of The) Sunday Times, feels strongly) that the Philby disclosures wil): make many people “wonder just what kind of social and - @himistative strdeterested up to this fantastic jpfiltratign.” Hispetreves it. wit Snfaxe-citar a need for reforms in many spheres. But David Astor, owner and editor of The Sunday Observer, laughs off the social signifi- cance of the story. “As I see it, there is no social meaning in it,” he said. “Philby could have deceived anybody. The Rus- sians, like us, recruit their agents among the socially satis- fied segments of their society. It is silly to blame the ‘old boy network.’” The “old boy network” Is a reference to the tribal confi-: dence and mutual backscratch- } ing said to exist among the. graduates of exclusive, class- t oriented British private schools : that have traditionally supplied a large percentage of British ubiteservants, ———ar The significance of the Phile* by tees that Iwofrying many Britons was expressed by this week's Spectator maga- zine. It said: “While there are master minds and active bodies like Philby and Blake at work in Moscow, we had better watch out. If they have not factually left some time bombs behind they are considering how to get them into position Inow.”” ‘ George Blake is another Brits ish spy, who last October es- caped from Wormwood Scrubs prison where he was serving a 42-year sentence, In the same week that The Sunday Times was publishing a picture of Philby in Red Square, other newspapers were publishing pictures of Blake swiarieg in a Cautatterttke. ae Pe es BO Oe ge ge ce ee NS FOE alae eed See