The Herald, Friday, November 16, 1979 Page 5 A real espionage story §=[ ° — LONDON (Reuter) — A new spy scandal has hit Britain with the revelation that Sir Anthony Blunt, former art adviser to the Queen, passed secrets to the Soviet Union, Sir Anthony, 72, a dis- tinguished figure in the art world, spied for the Soviet Union during the Second World War as a member of British military intelligence, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the House of Commons Thursday, She also said he helped Queen's paintings, one of the best private’ collections in the world, until 1972 and continued as her art adviser until he retired last year. In Moscow, Maclean was approached by reporters in his apartment near the foreign ministry, He said: “I know why you are here and I can tell you now I have nothin to say." . The surprise annoucement _in Parliament led to a dispute, with opposition Labor members alleging the. facts had been deliberately During the war Blunt longer in a position to pass passed information to the secrets, but in 1951 he used Russians, Mrs Thatcher his Soviet contacts to help said. After 1945 he was no Burgess and Maclean to flee. LIBRARY BROWSING | ED CURELL and MARIA YOUNG Paperbacks are one of the most popular materials’ supplied by the library. A good portion of the total - stock we hold is made up of paperbacks mostly — because of the high and rising cost of hardback books. en ee British diplomats Guy kept from the British public Browse through our k racks for these Burgess and Donald for almost two decades, _ more recently Dave etdiians : and ; Maclean, both Moscaw spies, — “The whole shabby affair ~~ Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe bj slip away to the Soviet Union appears to have been a f‘ y in Britain’s sensational 1951 espionage scandal. Only hours after Mrs. Thatcher revealed that Blunt was a spy, in answer ta a question offered the day before, another question on the Burgess-Maclean affair was put to the government. The parliamentary question called for an in- vestigation into iinks bet- ween the Burgess-Maclean cover-up for the establish- ment,’’ sald Labor MP Dennis Skinner. The affair came to a head with the publication of the book The Climate of Treason by historian Andrew Boyle. Although the book did not name Blunt, Boyle laid a trait of clues pointing to the identity of. the so-called “fourth man” who had helped Burgess and Maclean Nan and Ivan Lyons is a splendid and funny murder mystery as one after another, masterful chefs around . Europe are killed by an overweight gourmet. The Ceconut Killings by Patricia Moyes is set in the’ Caribbean and when an important American senator is killed, Chief Superintendent Henry Tibbett is called over to sort things out, Patricia Moyes is a former . winner of the Edgar Allan. Poe Award for mystery writing. ; co Raw Material by Alan Sillitoe is a part novel, part autobiography account of life in the Nottinghamshire mining country. ' affair and a British-born to escape, The Last Starship from Earth by John Boyd is a physicist, Wilfrid Mann, now The “‘thirdman" hadbeen chilling ‘novel set in the future in which the state living in Washington. Kim Philby, whose high decides whom one will choose as a mate. Mann, in a_ statement, denied involvement. The House question is to be an- swered on Monday. Blunt — at Cambridge University before the Second World War — had spotted likely recruits for Soviet intelligence among the elever upper-class young men destined to enter Britain's establishment. His whereabouts were a mystery today. On Wed- nesday he left his London apartment with baggage and took a taxi for Heathrow Airport, perhaps for Italy, said a porter at his home, Mrs. Thatcher said that Blunt — about whom Mrs, Thatcher said hour in the library arts room. The Loon’s Necklace is eee men speculation had been rife for Britain's director of public an Indian legend which tells of how the loon acquired . —— yn Terrace | years — had confessed to Prosecutions aut wder to the white stripes around its neck. Big League Freddie "a who are new 4 came to espionage in eee ated only Blunt's immu oper te in 84 cartoon starring Fred Flintstone who is signed to For those voter uce yself. art from munity froth ApreWectitith.