BLUNT'S DEATH has sent the press into a lather about the crime of treason. What has really got up the noses of Fleet Street is that Blunt is a product of the very establishment which runs Britain, and its own press.
all in the eyes of our ruling class.
But what made Blunt, Burgess, MacLean, Philby — and who knows who else — 'go off the rails'?
When they were Cambridge students was gripped by recession.
Fascism had won in Italy significant number capitalists thought it might be a good way to 'solve Britain's problems' Nor did • The look much of an alternative. government of 1931 had benefits and its leaders had aesertea to joll with the Tories and Liberals to form the National government.
At the same time the •Letting the side down' is the nastiest crime of Communist dropped the disastrous ultra-left line of the 'third period' to pave the way for Hitler in Germany. By then it was trying to build alliances With the Cabitailsi democracies'.
'realism' pealed to the middle class SOCIE who distrusted the willingness of the British ruling class to oppose fascism.
cent of the Anthony Blunt Stalin also had another attraction. He held state Dower. To these people who had been brought up to respect and admire the might of emand its power, the transition from one state power to another was not too difficult.
When Blunt was recruited to MIS he must have appeared the ideal agent. He CanC family, read the right newspapers and hac been to the right school.
During time he gave the USSR information about Britain and its allies. He no nem ow the allies were plotting to put Dack the war-time pact with the Allies guaranteed them but which the duplicity of Churchill ana Koosevell denied them As a Marxist applaud the that Blunt his contemporaries gave awa Britain's war secrets. This helped to defend the USSR in the war against fascism.
All their lives they had seen that you got results by influence and by knowing the right people who could manipulate cass struggle and mass acon was was out or tell experience and understanding Their hopes thus lay noi In the class struggle but in an