The connection between the Blunt affair and the issue of “theater” nuclear weapons for NATO would, I am sure, fascinate the originator of this column, as it fascinates his stand-in. The connection is psychological and calls for exploration.
The whole world now knows what previously was privileged gossip: that Professor Anthony Blunt, a distinguished art historian and advisor to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on her collection of pictures, spied for Stalin’s secret police. Unmasked in his seventies, Blunt explained that in the late 1930s his “conscience” told him to support the Soviet Union and that he gave precedence to that conscience over patriotism.
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