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C “se The Weshington Post Foreign Bervict LONDON, July 16 — The! leaders of the government and’ opposition told Parlament to day that it would be against; the national interest to reveal; -further details of the Philby’ case, Harold A, R.Philby disap-| peared last January from Beirut, where he was working &S & newspaper correspondent. He had worked for British intelligence during World War| IL and went into the Foreign Service ‘afterward, but was| dropped in 1951 because of; Communist connections. The government recently! disclosed that Philby had been the tip-off man in the 1951 defection of British diplomats| Guy Burgess and Donald| Maclean. Britain has received reports, that Philby is now in Prague. Opposition leader Harold! Wilson and deputy leader George Brown had two long! conferences with Prime Minis-| ter Harold Macmillan about} the case in the past weck. ~ Members of Parliament had put down a series of angry questions for answer by the Prime Minister today asking for full information. The key, question was whether Philby, was still working for MI-6, Britain's equivalent of the: Central Intelligence Agency, up to the time of his disap. pearance even though he had been fired by the Foreign Office 12 years before. Former friends of Philby have charged publicly that he continued to work for intel- igence. today that he had made al—~ thorough study of the case. © “I hope the House will ac- cept,” he said, “that it would not be in the national inter- est for members to inquire further into the past history of the case. I would ask the House therefore to refrain from any further public dis- cussion of these matters.” The surprise came when op- position Labor leader Wilson echoed Macmillan's plea for discretion. Labor has been pushing for investigation of; security failures, Wilson said he had received! a “full and frank account” from Macmillan that “raises a number of issues that frank- ly cannot be discussed across the floor of the Houge.” The opposition s had some grave anxietie¢ about emillan Holds Back More Details Philby Case; Wilson Goes Along the handling of the case, Wil- son added, but conside! ‘best to take them up in cpn-, fidential talks with Prine Macmillan told Parliament|/ miter. the Not + JKDED 191 gut 17 1963