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Philby with Yemeni revolutionaries In 1962. ‘THE MAN at the top left of the picture is, of course, Kim Philby. It is not a new pic- ture: it was taken in Sep- “tember 1962" Inthe” Yemen © while Philby was a. reporter for the Observer, and Just before he physically defected yesterday by the Associated Press agency and is worth publishing because it sums up the extraordinary episode of _Philby-mania that,,Britain ts _ passing through now. At pre- ~~ sent any snap of Philby, however irrelevant, however valueless as a picture, has an a an Tt. was Aiscavered interest. Anyone who knew him, or knew someone who knew him, however casually, in his pre-notorious days is assured of an audience. Can this chap with the kind-uncle face really: have snéaked on the entire British Secret Ser- vice and gone over to the Reds? Surely. it ts a plot to Man jin white suit is Colonel Sallal, now Pre. White - these ¢ out thi if, by s you h: va hith of Ph looks sore discredit the upper’ classes?. ight 29 ;