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france has put feo £14 milion of the £90 million. So once again, whe 2 Six dispuss Britain’s Common <, a8 “an \nterested party.” will be able to make a /righteous assessment of the British rer rd. EXPORTS dropped £66 million to £354 million — the lowest since Labour came to power. /only £10 million at £518 million, /the figure being bo in by the arrival of higher-pricef oi] supplies. Reaction Mr. Dere ‘Pritchard, chairman jof the National Exports Coungil :"“ A conservative estimate is that the dock troubles/eost us £100 million in’ kales in October, “This is & Knife wound to Britain'a economy which may well tufn septic with loss of. future business, Betting| the goods. they ¥ Customers afe fed up with not have orderefi.” © ; . U.S. banker Rudolph Peterson, president of the Bank of America. said In London that the U.S. would continue tO support Britain. But heladded : “ We may reach a point where prudence would’ no indicate con- tinued support, but this is a stage which we would approach reluctantly.” Abroad.» trade fi - bdnkers said the redicted another sh Bank rate, officials of the European | Free| Trade Assocla- tion, of iwhich Britain is: a member, were privately predict. ing that! Britaln - would’ raise {mporL barriers. : J! More cheerful| note yesterday came in the Treasury's monthiv aasessinent of the economy. It reported that reflation continued slowly] with capital V investment by tdustry, sumer~ pending. | and "houses building al} risin tient too was bel REVOLT agains economic policies night as Labour under the news the trade ap and the coal industry run- own, writes Arthur Buller, Thirty-six M.P.s of Right, Left, and Centre told party officers they wanted a ‘debate on unemployment at next week's | meeting of the parliamentar | Party. They fear reflation, will kh. elawrad How be slowed, COMMENT jast night on the Labour M.P.s' revolt. from Tory Party chairman Anthony Barber : “ When it comes to the erunch they will never sacrifice their seats for thelr principles.” | Opinion: Page 10 “Tf Harold Wilson's got any sense of personal gratitude, Jack Dash should be getting ‘his life peerage any minute now!" Express Industrial Reporter of | his is we Paper on fuel icy. she Page 12. . HE coal Industry ts in bagi Mars whose predictions danger of “beltng almost stop five yekrs short of Lord frightened' to death.” Robens's, streyses that it's not Minister of . Power Mr. possible to | timate beyon , 3 . He claime hat “ natur Rcperd Marsh warned last wastage from de&th and retite- . Who by? He mentioned no names, but there was no doubt that he was rebuking Coal Board chairman Lord Robens for forecasting last Week that today’s 387,000 miners Will be cut to 65,000 by 1980. - The Minister, faced with a revolt over the running down of the industry, was 50: ment” will account for 20,000 miners a year out ofthe annual drop of 35,000 in the umber of men needed. . - . Mr. Marsh pointed Out that £130 million worth -of special hard-hit by colliery closures... of nuclear power and natural” the worst on‘ aid is to be pumped into areas | Lae held. oat helebk opencnects. |. : | Kim, Philby—pictured during "From ROY: BLACKMAN: N a secluded Moscow restaurant with double agent Harold ‘Kim time he answered sdme of the puzzling the world sinc Philby, - quipping. joking, and his fingers, told me jin nervous siammers :— snapping : e his defec “My purpose became | the fight for Communism. I was prepared to sub- fugate everything in pursuit of that purpose. “That Is why E did it. I would still do it if 1 were young again in Britain today. And lam sure there are such men,” Philby, ooking well for his 55 years, wore a red tie and not- too-well-fitling. Russian when we met by appointment.’ “It ia ‘time you talked" 1 said, He replied: “ Maybe it is everybody seems to have been doing it" .° +: Ste Georgian white wine Philby traced the origins of his beliefs, the central driving force in a remarkable career of 30 years’ epying for Russia. ; “It was Ue 1931 elections that. finally did it.” he explained. * When the Socialists split I became intensely angry at the whole futile business. “To cannot say that my, con- version happened at any fixed point of time. bub I do know that after two years of painful thouch: IT had made up my mind by June 1933." Lighting a cigarette—Russia's cheapest. 20 for 10d.--Philby explained how. after being a War correspondent in Spain in the ‘thirties, he returned to Britain even more determined to achieve the task already set aina- of-yodka and giasses of- suit! for him by Soviet Intelligence . Implications for coal not be dodged any longer, aking “slashing cuts” demand could not be sustained. Mr, Marsh sent out a personal Message to the miners assuring them that “despite the present difficulties we shall need a lot of coal for a long time to come.” The ticked-cff Lord Robens, usually quick to react, for once discreetly declined to comment in advance of the Commons debate on the issue. Meanwhile his relations with He claimed that the advance. | Mr. Marsh are near rock bottom. he sat de Minister whb believes teaik of the Government. feet fe F @Pihiiby ii traitor yeste day gave ti! first newspap interview sin he defected the Sov Union, @ The intervic could not ha been give without t1 approval of t! Russia authoritic whose moliv: «for discreditit ‘the British an Western Intell gehce = services are obvious. @The Dail Express pub lishes this inter view, howevei because Philby own word reveal avi able insight int the mentality © a traitor an his reasons fo betraying hi country. infiltration of British gence. One of the more episodes in hs assiduc lion to that lask was | atian ie dy Cruanion Wilal the Algic- Society in the immedi war years. Ush — people!" he exclaimed. were dreadful—still are Philby sald that i to sense had been writte: how he wheedled tii + British intelligence, bev. was not so difficult .. - Power Minister ready to figh of manpower cuts. Kn. needs to kcep him in t to help him see the 1: through the difficult tune Mr. Marsh announced is ready to fight for hic at miners’ meetings. He seems assured ol a t Ime. Slr Sidney Ford, presic the. Nationul Union ot workers, “This Wh protested last; te Paper. rathe encouraging the developn an efficient coalmining in could completely underm: future.” The ne miners’ general sec | i j a |