1 Probably his review of Philby’s memoirs and related books, which had appeared in the New York Review of Books on 9 May 1968.
1 Philby (in his letter of 30 April) had promised to toast T-R ‘with deep sincerity, in one of my May Day glasses of champagne’.
2 Philby’s letter had pooh-poohed suggestions that he was psychologically abnormal.
3 The letter had denigrated Dick White as ‘ineffective’.