The 1930’s was an epoch during which one’s loyalties were tested to the extreme. For some in contemporary Britain it was the Class or status that bound. Yet for others it was their lover, family or even friends. In the extreme as the season of treason evidenced, it was Communism. But which one would triumph when all three collided? Which would take precedence?
For some inexplicable reason, during the 1930’s the myth of a Communistic utopia was implanted in the imagination of the West. Instead of the lower classes being infected by this contagion, it was an array of the wealthy well-to-do students who contracted the most virulent strain.
Main picture: Kim Philby with a sunny disposition but a treacherous heart