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Cin Cora + rp tod a MBNA @ CUTAN ha peetaty:) ail anne : "Ags ofe who for more than a year (1934-36) shared the white- washed. simplicities of the Green ‘Palace—the St. John Philbys' .-} plome outside the walls of Jidda herel Can assure Mr John le Carré that his surmise that Mrs Philby, ‘Kim’s. mother, could not be +e giwéman of any force” is far . wide of the mark (“ The Enemy _Within,” Magazine, last week). - Dora Philby, as I found her then, was a big, red-haired, lively, thrusting woman, with a personality every bit as marked jp OS; tof “Uncle Abdullah,” as "hist rab employees called AbduHah (St. John) Philby. sfvely{Gntuitive introduction to Philby: The Spy Who Betrayed ia Géaralion, might have made a further mental leap and ‘deduced that Kim's striking physical resemblance to his imathey indicated that he was made more in her stereotype than Jn his father’s, and that the mother of the man who stole all _the-heddlines all the time could hardly be a negligible person. z haps the most striking ipignsy of Dara Philby’s* in- idivigyality were her robust lack ‘of interest in the aping of Arab i manners and dress, and her i" véfugal of repeated requests by the ,, all-powerful King Abd Pi-Aziz Al Sa’ud that she follow “her ‘husband into becoming a uslim. She certainly declined to““fome in out of the cold,” 'tdto"the warmth of the Islamic ' est ipto which her husband had pcrampled! Tape aye nambitious G L-W Mackenzie on NWI é _ is little to be Jearnt of Philby's ‘PH mother.” The following is an extract from my journal October, 19200" tt F ralidle (Mount Clipping In Space Below) Mr Je Carré, in his impres- - Jolin Je Carré writes: “ There. f ; a ace ‘ers"gnibilioug! woman."8 nerer i Hi.) ry ot, Sunday “In, the fy." Se Aa igs ‘of ‘the Red Sea: with :« 1 i Folkestonay nests aosk bed otf) eld ditaya. . Beka ap a tegen Mee five oo t ait MAMLA AO ATR aes Ud her“ hoo. / AOETS 3 DICE ORE: ‘LY aadood Vt (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) \j P. 15 The Sunday Times “——~ London, Engiand Mry Dora Philby following wind. Yesterdayfeven—~ ing I strolled up to the, hows to get as cool as possible ks a, Leaning over the tae sans front were Mrs Philby, Majer Dodd and Toovey. Mrs Philby: is a very handsome woman! of about twenty-five with a lot of giorzous red hair. poe “We are having a jmost. interesting discussion” ‘said, Mrs Philby. “On what sub-- tat? FF oo Arey * rT — . ject? Ambition. "We all know what Dodd’s ambition is” —er emer a fee fa PER FOIA REQUEST 7 o I said, “it is to breed pi Feat England.” ce Mrs Philby turned to Deda: Date: 2/25/68 “You, a soldier?" “Yes, what" Edition: better ambition can a man heve Author: than to farm in England? ‘It ort CO) is all very well for you. Your’ Editor: husband is a comparativ : ; young man who has cut out a: nine HAROLD A,R,.PHILBY line for himself and has shad- ML 6f P. a luck as well as ability.” - = = - “te ig strange for me to°talk 7 RDED like this ‘about ambition,""daid-}. Character: ESP-R Mrs Philby “for I aiwayd tell’ 1958 - my husband that all I want is Classification: a good comfortable life, and, he is always saying he wishes J had more ambition as one migh as well be a turnip as be, with:. out it. But I think ambition is a very different thing in a man.j. and a woman... I don't like an SuBVenriPy Otfice: London | Being Investlqated “WL Halles... | 1e Ak tesa ene ne ae wt mimi ap otkthinn tate ai ee ete a met “pte 1] he oo fee Me . a a * ane, 7 he atl a a