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a ta ihe... Cpe e Fe Pre ae " He produced no shred of evidegce support that threat. under wh ch T have now lived for 12 days. Last niglit in the House Cpl. Lifton again refused to produce]. evidence, refused to withdraw the charge and refused to repeat It out- side Lhe House. In justification of his refusal to repeat It outside the House, he indulged in the extra- ordinary verbal Bynes of sayin that even Mr. Philby had not aske him to do 60. © ~T suggest he repeats the charge outside the House and produces evidence or, if the evidence really ix so secret, he should forward it, as he suggests, to a judicial member of the Privy Counci] and meanwhille withdraw the charge until the member has had a chance of exam-|' ining the evidence and pronouncing upon it.” : REQUEST TO RESIGN “amprudent Association” r. Philby sald he resigned from thi Foreign Office, on request, in Sub. WO51. “I certainly regard the reqiest to resign as a direct conse- quence of an imprudent association —that is, with Burgess. since undergraduate days at: Cambridee. For elgnt months before his return to London in May, 1951, Burgess lived at his house in Wash- ington. “I more or Jess sponsored him in that rather hectic society of Washington.” - never knew Burgess was & contnunist: Burgess’ political views were “all over the place.” He would adjust his attitude for the sake of argument: with gtirer-people.} urgess had many friends in di crent spheres of. Jite. He d drink but, “his benaviour was npt. diskraceful in any Sense of the wo korgvn tome, He wes sent home f a driving offence: he was caught ‘, bs die * ae bet Mee = hail ae ET a Tn at Ta ee ee ahi lie atl sped Pl Se ‘the challenge of Mr. Philby 5 eding three times on the sgme r. Philby said he was aggrie ed ‘at| what Burgess had done “on jhe ‘Digger Issue,” even more than abput its effect on his own career. “ But 'there are fair weather friends and ‘foul weather friends. and I prefer ‘to belong to the second category.” Asked if this meant he stil! con- sidered himself a friend of Burgess, he said it meant he was not going to indulge in mud-slinging. He met Maclean in 1937 or 1938 and again just before or after the outbreak of war, but he was only a shadow in his memory. . Mr. Philby sald his own political development had been unspectacu- lar. @ was a member of the Socialist Soclety at Cambridge. .“I have mever been a Communist, though I knew people who were ‘Communist at Cambridge and for a year afterwards. “The last time I spoke to a Com- -munist. knowing he was one, was in 1 ae He had always been “on the ince leaving the Forelgn Office hg had been a free lance writer jon fayeign affairs. A book now lin manscript form would touch on fhe Maclean-Burgess affalr. but ogly “episodically” in dealing with In- ‘ternational affairs. Mr, Philby sald his wife and Ove children were staying with friends ,outside London, , ‘NO REPLY BY MP. |“Statement in House ” He had known Burgess, on and; Lt.Col. Lipton: did not reply, to BF night. but said: “I propose to make a statement in the House.” Tt is understood that Col, Lipton, will seek the permission of the: Speaker to make a personal state- ment. Such statements, by leave of the Speaker, are made immediately after questions in the House of Commons. They are not debatable. “0.K.”-With Mr. Philby When Mr. Phijby was informed of Cot. Lipton'a decision to make a statement in the House he said: “T cannot comment further untit after the hon.,and gallant Megiber fér Brixton has opened his traq ex- capt to say that I hope he will re- pdat his charge and produce his eyidence, or he should withdraw. Efiher way, it is absolutely U.K. with me.” eee ‘ +