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#1 Kim Philby was a boy who was at Westminster School with me in 1925. He was the only person I had ever heard of before, and I did not know what to make of him. He was highly untypical of a public school boy.
#2 Kim had a relatively easy life at school. He was not popular, but he was not unpopular either. He had something untouchable about him, a strong inner strength and self-reliance that made others respect him.
#3 Kim was not a brilliant student. He took three years to get over the School Certificate, and he was placed fifteenth out of twenty-three boys in his final year. He never joined the Officers’ Training Corps, and he saved himself a lot of trouble and the appalling discomfort of the uniform.
#4 Kim was prankish, but he had a strange sense of humor. He did not find many things funny, and he derived a harmless enjoyment from the discomfiture of others. He was never one to bully the smaller or weaker.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	13 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669353607
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

Kim Philby was a boy who was at Westminster School with me in 1925. He was the only person I had ever heard of before, and I did not know what to make of him. He was highly untypical of a public school boy.

#2

Kim had a relatively easy life at school. He was not popular, but he was not unpopular either. He had something untouchable about him, a strong inner strength and self-reliance that made others respect him.

#3

Kim was not a brilliant student. He took three years to get over the School Certificate, and he was placed fifteenth out of twenty-three boys in his final year. He never joined the Officers’ Training Corps, and he saved himself a lot of trouble and the appalling discomfort of the uniform.

#4

Kim was prankish, but he had a strange sense of humor. He did not find many things funny, and he derived a harmless enjoyment from the discomfiture of others. He was never one to bully the smaller or weaker.

#5

Kim was not a homosexual, but he was never given to sexual boasting or fantasy. He was never made monitor, an honor bestowed annually on four out of the eight or nine seniors, i. e. scholars in their last year.

#6

Kim’s stammer has been attributed to his father's dominance, but this is not the case. Kim was tough, self-reliant, and self-confident. He did not care about his father's career, and did not try to emulate him.
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#1

I had not been abroad before, and was extremely green. My mother, who never set foot outside Britain in her long life, thought to provide some insulation for at least the first day by buying me a first-class ticket from Victoria to Nancy.

#2

Kim and I were 18 when we traveled to Budapest. We explored the city, walked the splendidly baroque Andrássy út, watched the fireworks rise above the ramparts of Buda, and bathing in a swimming pool constructed in the flowing yellow Danube.

#3

I was with Michael and Kim when they went on their journey. We went by train to Vienna, where we were to meet Michael at the Westbahnhof. We spent much of our time at the hotel, taking illicit baths and playing auction bridge with the Philby family.

#4

I went to Christ Church, Oxford, in October 1930. I met Kim’s friend Michael Stewart there, who was not yet involved in politics. I saw little of Kim during this period, but we occasionally watched cricket or football together.

#5

In 1932, Kim went to Yugoslavia, Albania, and Bulgaria. He had a strong attachment to the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, and he wanted to see its lands and peoples. He was always interested in German politics, and he had to make a diversion to Berlin.

#6

In 1932, Kim and I traveled to the Adriatic to see the sights. We had nothing with us but rucksacks, and half the weight in mine consisted of books I was reading for greats classes. We thought we might be able to use our bank letter of credit on the boat, but it didn’t work out that way.

#7

I traveled to Albania with my friend Archibald Lyall, who was studying twenty-five European languages. I learned Albanian by candlelight. It was a primitive language that borrowed widely from others to deal with any invention or concept earlier than the Stone Age.

#8

In the 1930s, Albania was a self-deprecating country that lacked nationalist self-importance. The country had air of inefficiency, but there was also efficiency. In Durrës, my shoes began to disintegrate. I found a little cobbler in an open-fronted shop, and within an hour they were not just repaired but stronger than when new.

#9

Kim was now even more ascetic than before, and he did not make any concessions to tourism or even normal comfort. He always sought out the cheapest place to sleep, and he kept careful accounts in a tiny notebook.

#10

The Balkans were a friendly place. We never had any fears for our safety or that of our few possessions. Except for Dubrovnik and Kotor, there was virtually no tourist trade in any of the places we visited.

#11

We had to abandon our plan to get Bulgarian visas and instead got Greek visas on the spot. We then walked the forty-odd miles from Ohrid to Bitolj, in the very south of Yugoslavia, whence we could get a train into Greece.

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