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a] ——— country, Had they Uestioned suppose gs Socialists have former Combined berations enjoyed Working for Tory news- planners, they would have found Paper proprietors, That be imat a local agent produced on a SO, he was a Very hard man to score of occasions the extra detect or catch, The positive Getail of intelligence which saved Vetting of our own day Would British Hves. pice a0 have aroused — sus- picions about him—buyt roba b] tn places Se Hee, OTK, was done pICIONS about h Por, Just before and Aros 2 ce Mr. Malcolm the war, he was associating wit - Muggeridge, fet account of pro-Germans and anti-Russians whose ivit | . 4 archives” meat avee man Would have been welcomed back examined jn 1945, when the cold war The Bismarck was intercepted gan. : thanks to & tip from the head ENEMY of the Norwegian Becret Service in Stockholm; her Signals wera a mol deciphered DY our experts { am glad to see that le Carré mance he Tornoe taken be be- attaches little importance to — Philby's political convicnone nd ac miike that of Burgess Politically, he did not outgrow about his reliability. , the anger and disgust with When yesterday's ally turns which he had watched in 1934 into tomorrow's enemy — as Fascist brutality in Vienna, Seems liable to happen ‘to us Deceit was In hig Nature, and with either a Gaullist or the root of his attitude Was to Communist France — loyalties be found in the character and are embarrassing, Was it then Camper of his Arabist father. so odd that Philby should by © enjoyed the act, much | Soviet networks in Eastern this book gives, brilliantly, ode Europe? I cannot see that it essence of the Philby story. [tg Was. Where, however, I do a ree enduring effect must be to con- with the authors is in their vince politicians and Press that amazement at the secret trial fo Intelligence ts a departmental Which Philby was subjected in activity—like running an armed 1951 by his Whitehall colleagues, service—of which o the core How the Foreign Secretaries need be Top Secret, of the day—Her| tt Morrison After all, we have a Navy and Anthony Eden—came to with a budget which is Publicly allow such nonsense is a Ques- discussed; it hag a nuclear tion which ht usefully be submarine force whose com- studied under Harold Wilson's manding officer tg known and . pian for special official histories can be interviewed: yet the Of episodes which still influence performance and training of our lives. There are at least the new Resolution remains three eminent historians, who closely guarded secrets. Were actually employed in the There is no reason why Secret Service, by whom the intelligence should not be Job could be done with authority organised in the same way. so and with security. that we shed once for ali ‘the promniste though fit is, discredited titles of inaccurate though it is in detail, MIé—and make a fresh start. — Cd swe. s,