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coe & From Page One ; me ny :“ Detrayed the interest of his} 292 || oe a _ Country or to identify him with 2, ee . the = so-called Third Man—if indeed thers was one,” . Mr, Philby said acven years . ago ne had “been a close fricnd Ot Burgess * since undorcraduare days.” : oy “We're satisfied’. ° a toG "fhe British Embassy in Belrup: 2 ge - - Said today: “Mrs, Philby asked =: . ao oo . us la try to find her husband ‘ TRL ", ,. 7, but after she received the cable « Te Ps Soot she told us hot to bother any re hae “Diore, She seemed quite SRLis- ; ee oo st with the consents of the - : ‘able. “We are not taking any fur- . . ‘aon vos ner action. Thare are not : . , dnowgh facts to indicate, a fc: . iwason for Mr. Philby leay ng Beirut. It is all speculation, ‘ ‘4 +e... $0 are we’ The Foreign Office in ‘London : Said; “We were asked to find 2 gut if Mr. Philby was in thed . an ; aa United Arab Republic. The reply : “oo was that he had not been there a ‘since June or July in 1962. We Cooke have done what we were asked . fo and are taking no further : . -action. Mrs. Philby scems quite Ss, Sutlstied there is no mystery tA Over her husband's whereabouts.” The inquiry (to the Foreign OfL%¢e came from The Observer, Mi.” Philby represents The Observer and the Economist in ‘the Middle East, The Observer would not ‘com- ment. today, : ’ . . . The Economist said: “ Mr. i oof . Philby. is certainly. not on an assiumment for us. The last ory he filed was on January 16. .We have not heard from hint _ ,fince,” : . And Mrs. Philby has refused, = * '9 accep! any telephone calls at ber ftth-floor flat ‘in Beirut # enema