Maybe, but there is no doubt he was a traitor. Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Traitor makes a compelling case for regarding him as the so called 5th man, including the fact that, like Philby, he was recruited by Arnold Deutsch. The book is, as they say, well-sourced.
The Vietnam War was an especially dangerous time to be a Communist , especially at places like the University of California's Berkeley College .
Support for Communism was, thankfully, at hand as the radical Berkeley students protested daily against the racist US Military's unwarranted attempts to kill their fellow Communists in Vietnam.
I'm reminded of these lines from the 1995 film, Billy Madison:
"What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
BTW, we Earthlings tend to refer to it simply as Berkeley.
Soon to welcome four other New Labour comrades-Burgess,Maclean,Blunt,and.. Cairncross or..?
ReplyDeleteAnswers on a post card please.
May I add that the jury is still out with regard to Cairncross as to whether or not he was the fifth member of The Cambridge Five.
ReplyDeleteMaybe, but there is no doubt he was a traitor. Michael Smith's The Anatomy of a Traitor makes a compelling case for regarding him as the so called 5th man, including the fact that, like Philby, he was recruited by Arnold Deutsch. The book is, as they say, well-sourced.
DeleteThere was a very bright Cairncross at KCS. A son?
DeleteI don't think so. Our parents had some sort of connection. His dad was a thoroughly respectable chap.
DeleteThanks for that.
DeleteI've always wondered.
Just as well, on balance, that it wasn't that Cairncross.
It may have been Roger the Dodger.
ReplyDeleteI'll leave you in peace.
Almost as revolting as the 1979 image of Brezhnev and Jimmy Carter exchanging sloppies after SALT II.
ReplyDeleteA fraternal kiss for the Luxembugger from spaghetti - spined Blair and a dialectical Glasgow kiss from a trenchant critic :
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Roger being Hollis of course.
ReplyDeleteWhatever it is all ancient history.
Sadly the damage the progressives have done is all brushed under the carpet.
The Vietnam War was an especially dangerous time to be a Communist , especially at places like the University of California's Berkeley College .
ReplyDeleteSupport for Communism was, thankfully, at hand as the radical Berkeley students protested daily against the racist US Military's unwarranted attempts to kill their fellow Communists in Vietnam.
I'm reminded of these lines from the 1995 film, Billy Madison:
Delete"What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul."
BTW, we Earthlings tend to refer to it simply as Berkeley.
My terminology just shows that, unlike you, I was a Berkeley square. In fact , not even in the eponymous Hunt.
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