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It’s a hereditary title. The family is from Lancashire, if I remember rightly, and the title goes back a couple of hundred years. The family has close ties to the Royal Family. Digby had an older brother who was first in line to inherit the title, but he died young. So when Digby’s father died, the Baronetcy fell to him and he became Sir James.’
    Ben nodded. He removed the ribbon from his papers, selected the document on top of the stack, and skimmed through it.
    â€˜Well, I don’t think Herbert needs our advice on whether or not the allegations Hollander makes are libellous,’ he observed. ‘I would say that was a given, wouldn’t you?’
    Wesley thought for a moment or two.
    â€˜Assuming them to be false,’ he replied. ‘On that assumption, yes, I would agree.’

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    The Ivy League Political Remembrancer
    1965, Volume 1, February
    Perfidious Albion: Why the United States can no longer Afford to Trust Great Britain
    Francis R Hollander, Associate Professor of Political Science, Yale University
    When, if ever, will the United States, and particularly the CIA, wake up and realize that Great Britain is no longer a reliable ally, and that we can no longer afford to trust her with our nation’s secrets? The steady drain of the most sensitive secret materials and information to the Soviet Union via a succession of highly-placed spies has made a joke of the much-vaunted British Special Intelligence Service, SIS, otherwise known as MI6. But it is a joke which is no laughing matter for America, because too many of the secrets which have found their way to Moscow are ours. Consider the recent history alone. On May 25, 1951, two British men, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, disappeared and later surfaced in Moscow, apparently residing contentedly in that city as distinguished guests of the Soviet government. What do we know of these men?
    Guy Burgess is known to have visited the Soviet Union in 1934. By 1938 he was working for MI6. Later, after spending some time with the British Broadcasting Corporation, he returned to intelligence work via the Foreign Office, and in 1950 he was appointed Second Secretary at the British Embassy in Washington DC, remaining in this post until his disappearance the following year.
    Donald Maclean, a linguist by training, had a distinguished career in the Foreign Office. In 1935, he was Third Secretary in London, but in 1938 he was posted to Paris, and in 1940 was promoted to Second Secretary after playing a heroic role in the evacuation of the personnel of the British Embassy there in the face of the advancing German forces. In 1944, he was posted to the Embassy in Washington as acting First Secretary, and in 1947 he was appointed secretary to the British Delegation to the Combined Policy Committee, a role which would have given him first-hand access to almost all of our military intelligence and secrets, including information related to our nuclear weapons program. Between 1948 and 1951 he seems to have had serious personal problems. He was posted first to Cairo and then to London, from where he vanished with Burgess in May 1951.
    Burgess and Maclean were both professional and personal associates of a third man, H.A.R. ‘Kim’ Philby. Philby joined MI6 in 1940, and remained with the Service until 1951. That date, with its implied link to Burgess and Maclean, is no coincidence. In his first post in MI6 he reported to Guy Burgess. During the War, he had important responsibilities, first for the supposedly neutral states of Spain and Portugal, later for North Africa and Italy. In 1944, however, he was appointed head of a new Section of MI6 concerned with the Soviet Union and the beginnings of the Western resistance to communism. In 1946 he became Head of Station in Turkey, the historic bridge between East and West and, therefore, a key area for intelligence in what was to become the Cold War. Then, in 1949, he was appointed MI6’s