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Hush! Want to be a spy?

My own answer would most certainly be 'Yes'. I go further, and suggest that native as well as foreign students, if they so feel inclined, could do worse than take note that some of their 'friends' might well be, or

. . and now number 22 in the charts, for Rupert an all the gang in Bouverie Street 'It's only make beligve" by, Plen Cwnpbell,'

become, agents of this or of other countries; that our own intelligence service has been known to use Oxbridge tutors and members of university appointments boards as recruit- ing officers; and that ex-students, thus re- cruited, are naturally expected to provide details of students they regard as possibly subversive.