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prahe. was fol “yeiy7 satu. . “Philby did better.«"He tearned - Russian (as: Burgess had .gever a Ane), loved the intense:.cold, —~ and—provided he was ppaiged iby, the K G B—seemed tonthink 4 ‘that life in Moscow needad, np ” Justification. ie :- What is most string ft all ms ee, athis is Philby's extraordinary. tegotism. By his secret treachery, “qanceled from her and. never -even afterwards justified to, her, | che had dragged his wife to this -dreadful world. “ He never ance rgaid to me, ‘I've landed you in ‘@ situation you perhaps did mat vwenticipate when you married | ‘me.’ He never seemed to think « ” wwhy | justification was peces- waty.” He himself had made sactifices for the sake of. the ‘KG B. For that “he had broken -with men he liked and lost,their *Pespect, taken up with men he Gisliked, deserted his family, sembarked on a lifetime of lies and shabbiness. Now what.was Important was that these {rgmendous sacrifices should be ‘ecognised.” ae {ine evidently never thought of others’ sacrifices. When ‘the ‘wife who had sacrificed ‘her Jife, and to whom he wrote lave- ‘Yetters expressing absolute “de- ‘Notion, asked him direct, “ What 48° more important in ‘your wlife, me and the children yor the Communist Party?” he afiswered firmly and without:2 moment's hesitation, “The ‘Party of course.” This abso- lute egotism, once he‘ had “chosen his course, is perhaps “te real key to his charatter~ AND HOW will it end? Ip ‘his Public interviews, which ate an exercise in Russian propaganda, ghe insists that he is happy, complacent about the past, ,Confident of the future. Per- haps his egotism, if sufficiqntly flattered, will sustain him in-a world of privileged illusion, Perhaps not. Already in 1964, below the surface, Mrs Philby detected “a sea of sadness": &in spite of his discipliné i sgsensed in him a profound - gloom.” Like Burgess, - like « = Maclean, he escaped “ by drink- :ing himself into insensibility.” . ;Jm Moscow this seems to be.a ‘gtandard response. As his useful- hess to the Russians declines— .and by now, for all their pybllc -flattery, he must vA aimost ue : ydess—thig mm; for hit for eect ‘inet pins out mais , >» why tee