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Anferrexm is cooperating with British security authori ties. They, in turn, are giving her protection and although she is said to be in Britain now, her whereabouts are ecret. She is, of course, free to enter or leave the country as she wishes. Mrs. Philby is, in fact, be- ing treated with the same i albves th fe” Britis recmity 1 authorities wore when deal- ing with Melinda Maclean, the wife of defector Donald (Maclean who confounded jthem and her trends by fol- lowing her husband to the ySoviety Union. Immediately after Philby's disapp: » friends of bis wife In Beirut suggested that she was “very worried about money.” But a short time lat- er Mrs. Philby left for Eu- rope with her two children, a trip that must have cost bi tween $1500 and $2000. . eign correspondent which are assumed to have ended. not be a8 useful to the Soviet Union as Maclean was when he disappeared. But surely any man who has worked in a British counter- espionage organizatioh must! have some value. There is little need to : Stress the similarity between , the Maclean and Philby cases. { Both men are from similar } backgrounds, the same age, ste F and soviet agents while they worked for the British For- eign Service. tive to women, had American wives, but indulged in emo- , tional relationships with oth- yer men, and both were drunk- rer iby used the once lux- urious Normandy Hote] in- Beirut as his office and gen- eral meeting place. He had much of his mail ti i when Further, they were attrac- |: were mounting and“ Hig cred- ftors became restless he would suddenly announce that he would soon be in the chips. When the money ar- rived he paid the barman and other creditors for a party, which would continue afterwards, or until Philby passed out. ¢ United States security of- tficers in Beirut are under- stood to have suggested, some two months ago, that they 5 had evidence thi at.Philby was ‘behind the Iron cana Philby had no money ex-* cept his earnings as a for- *