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~ epee. Thartk Y AFTER an adult lifetime of treachery #8 a citizen of the West, British turncoat Harold'Philby, now living in Moscow, at lastiias done us Westerners a service. In a political age: when black and white often merge into an uncertain gray, Mr. Philby provides us with a pure study in sullen, selfish, spineless black. cone The once trusted British agent who even had the run of our own CIA, says he would spy again for the Kremlin if he had the’ chance and misses only the beer, oysters and soccer matches that once brightened his life as an English- man, He told Western newsinen in Moscow this week he got disillusioned in the 1930s when he nerceived “massive un- anae reeyee Tae uae emplo ym ment thruout the capitalist You, Mr. Philby world and the apparent helplessness of existing forces to deal with it.” So he went commie. It figures. A fel- low Whose highest loyalties to the West hanr oo onuetoars new are conimanded by beer, oysters and soccer hardly was the type to address himself te the hard problems of making a free society work better. He preferred communism’s ‘‘e asy Anowar? af molkling oan thn wal CLs wes a AtaOAd ACT) Wards of Wit all-powerful state. So now he’s stuck in _ just that kind of society, where today the “new Soviet man” enjoys a stand- ard of living hardly better than the one Philby gave up on several decades aga. Mr. Philby, now baggy of eye and thin of leg, has run a hard and crocked course that has left him somewhere he- hind his own starting line. Mr, Philby, we are delighted to re- cord, is 4 loser, - s MELETED COPY seyr C Bete By isTieg sto VE Rete te ~ Ae , The Evening Star (Washington) Bishop Casper Callahan Conrad Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele. Room Holmes Gandy The Washington Post Times Herald _WW The Washington Daily News 22.4 The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) Sunday News (New York} New York Post The New York Times The Sun (Baltimore) The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer People’s World Date of ff 7P— OP foe {fia 7 ; cpm? a “ ' NOT RECORDED 1491 Nov 27 1967