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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 30
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tough and invigorating. For
him the country is being built
up to the revolution’s ideals.
“i have no doubt whatever
that we are on the Fight path.”
he said, “and that I now 55,
will live.to see a society as man
has never dreamed of.” And
Sesturing with a wineglass he
added gaily: “Naturally “1
Propose ‘to “live quite a long
1e.”"
- tContacts
He said he missed casyal
contacts with his children of
several’ marriages. He also
missed a glass of bitter. oysters
("Tam rather tired of caviar "),
and an occasional fine after:
leeds or the Oval
goes out saying
there are friends in
land I would like to see.”
Philby reflected on those far-
i days and faraway places,
wien said : “Mind you, there is
my I am pleased to be
hout too.
holidays. The English Channet.
‘The rising cost of living. The
the British Empire,
Mr. Wilson. “Mr. Heath.”
He paused, but there was no
mistaking ‘an " {nexhaustible
supply for his distaste.“ You
see the sort of thing I mean.”
he said.
Then : “ Yet 1 regard myself
y and irreversibly
English. and England as having
becn perhaps the most fertile
atch of earth in the whole
istory of human ideas,
“It 4s not England that fills
me with humane contempt, but
the other temporary phenomena,
only a fraction of which I have
mentioned.” :
Exit.) °;
Standing up ‘and patting his
Tespectable paunch, he said?
“I shall continue ‘my ‘chosen
Path until, maybe, early in the
third millenium, a swift death
overtakes me.”
And with that Kim. Philby
a aaa ie a
ROY
BLACKMAN
The
Express
staff
_reporter
in
357
in en ia
Talking together in Moscow—Kim Philby and Expressman Roy Blackman
ROY BLACKMAN is
and has been in journali
since he was 17, ap:
from two years’ Natio1
Service with the Art
qualifying as a Russi.
translator.
In August, he becar
Moscow Correspondent
the Daily Express.
He has reported even
in 26 countries, coyerii
the Vietnam war, the Ind
Pakistan -war, the Ind
nesian confrontation wa
and five coups in the
East and Africa. He w:
Jailed in Ghana. Ugand
_and Indonesia while o
reporting assignments.
Blackman is marric
with a family in Fnetan
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