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' LONDON. Feb. 9'I'he Brit-,
ish Foreign Oice said today it
had never seen any evidence"
that -issing British diplomatsGuaurgess and _1Q.0na.ld.Mac:
l.TEai1"" had "leaked" oielal in-
formation, as alleged by Gen.
Douglas MacArthur: '
A sbokesman was replying tot
questions at his press confer-
ence on MaeArihurs statement
linking his dismissal in 1951 as
United States Far Eastern Com-l
mander with the case of Bur-gess and MacLea11, W
= Writing -in Lite niagazlneg
MacArthur said the real reason
behind his dismissal by then,
President Harry Truman might;
have been my recommendation
made in January 951! shortly,
before my release, that a trea-ll
son trial be initiated to break
up a spy ring responsible forthe purloining of my top-seeretireports to Washington." Ii
[In Washington, MacArthursi
_charge that he may have been,
red for demanding a L1-eason
'trial" of Red spies in Washing-y
ton brought a Senate i
investigation by Internal Se-l
curity Subcommittee Chairman?
James O. Eastland D-Miss.!.
_{The -Senator told an inter-
viewer: As reported in the
press, that is a very, very se-
rious charge, and we shall eer»
tainly go into it."] _'_I !he Foreign Oice spokesman ,;5a1 I ' l
l "We have never seen any evi-92.i:lence or bB8l1'p!'O92I'idEd withllany which would show that in-3,
formation at that time leaked
through these people." l
MaeLean and Burgess disap-3,
peared from England in May,i
1951. Burgess had served in they
British Embassy in Washingtoni
from August, 1950, until early
May, 1951, when he was recalledl
to London and asked to resign
jrom the Foreign ,
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low THE it-ord oi its publisher, Richard Llew-
; e1Iyn's nev§__ng_vel takes its irlsplratiorf from
the Bulaess-Maclean case. though it turns out
that "lI1$Pl1'iti-ion isn't the rst word that rushes
tomincl in connection with "Mr. r~r3,m57}tr';i<-;ve'*
Still, a sort of par.
Jallel ls certainly
there,-_ In Mr. Llew-
.ellyn's book, as in
;thl-t'__news storyiwhich startled - the
ineewoi-is in 1951,
two--British diplo-
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-the Iron Curtain
Twith Jinportant se-
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.[_1"oreign Oice ies:
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wmsir will loinhim in the u. s. s. R. lThis is Hamish 1
Gleave. a sorry
s ecimen indeed. .-"M hm to an Richard Llewellyn
and perhaps it doesn't really matter. how spe-
cically Nl'i?'Llewe'll3in"had Duncan Maclean in
_mind when he wrote about Hamish Gleave.
i'Ihere,_ls the usual disclaimer oi "any resem-
'biance to actual persons. living or dead"-but
Ethat note might have crept in out of old habit.
The important thing here is what makes Hamie
las his irlends call him! run to the eznbi-ace oi,tyranny. .
Right to the point oi his defection, he has
not formally been a Communist. He is n. hard-i
workini. underpaid, competent official in charge
of the Foreign 0iilce's American desk. If he
despises Americans, and smarts under English
dependence cg the dollar, he hates Communists
as well. some day he may become an ambassa-
dor, but it's I. long tlme,to wait. and in the
mea time he cou do with some more mone. slur _.
grandfather toised away a fortune, and his own
ifllof Spent his life D8-yids oil the family losses.
You meet Hamish rst at Epsom, where, sym-
bolically, he is wearin¢"a'd1-es; shirt, and 59¢
ithat need darninl. - . -
Man in the Middle i
With that much established, Mr. Llewellyn has
planted corruption: seed in Hamish Gleave, the
middle-class Englishman caught between the
aristocrats whom he resentfully envies, the le-
boring class with whom by birth and education
he has nothing in common, and the parvenu
British business man and his vulgar kind whom
he would happily lee destroyed. All in all. Halnio
its a ripe plum. p - '_
Now these are the materials oi a. complex and
lsignitlcant tragedy or our time, but Mr. Llewel-
lyn has taken a sllpshod way with them. Given
the background and character of Hamish Qleave.
his detection is made too easy, a matter chiefly
of frustrated greed. The Communist overtures
leading to his downfall are invited by a nalveté
preposterous in one whose very position makes
discretion automatic. And while Mr. Llewellyn
suggests in a last-minute rush that his diplomat
'has siiceumbed intellectually to the ommunist. ildiay. there really haB been little or no prep-
aration Ior the big betraya1._ i
l Imperfections
That leaves it a kind or disguised cloak-anh
ldasaer story, complete with a fiery lemme fatal:
lurins Hamish, on tohis destruction. Irrelevant
characters appear and disappear. What promise
to be important relationships remain half ex-
plored. And_ nally. the man who wrote How
Green was My Vaey" and "l'~ione But the
Lonely Heart" with such' admirable narrative
ease, is guilty or a strange muddincss here. even
.to the point 0! long passages oi dialogue in
which you must backtrack to discover who is
speairll'iE- .
All oi which confusion may, and I suspect
inset: reflect Mr. I-lewellyn's uncertai_nty about-
Just what he wanted to make of this, a spy story
or the tragedy of an undermined integrity,_Un-
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HE main ndings of the seven Privy Councillors who h eprobed the Government! security let-up following the Bur?and Maclean scandal were given to Sir Anthony Eden shortly be orehe sailed for America. it was disclosed last night. .- Sir Anthony asked Lord Kilmuir. the Lord Chancellor, whoheaded the probe. to brief him for his discussions with PresidentEisenhower on the interchange oi atom Information and other
defence secrets.The Privy Councillors are understood to be generally satlslzlith the sccuritgr arrangements and to have recommended o
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LONDON, Nov. 23-P!-irnel
Minister Eden named seven
prominent Britons today as oi
committee to Qlamine nriumi
lecurity procedures end tn con-
sider whether they needed
ltrengthcning.
His action was s. direct out-
growth of the bitter criticism di-
rected at the Government and
its security services for their
handling of the case of the miss- Home Secretary, solicitor Gen-I
yrei and Attorney Qnerll.
w Earl Jowitt, n former Lordi
Chancellor, who il ulior pl-11-Yloader in the 0! 1401'!-S
Mqgr Gwii Lloyd-George,1|Lhe present Ho Secretary. i
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iero%thr§M mdtor;
~ Iner o . ~2 George gntglillll. 1011110! 145°!Minister of u - 1..81r Edward who, as
Permanent to the
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_ All Privy Council Member;
1 All see members of the Prinz?
= Council, which consists of e -
inent Britons, including present
Cabinet members and many for-J
mer munbers of the Cabinet.
The Privy council often acts all
adviser to the monarch. i
Sir Anthony said the terms of
rig British dipiomnts, f_>_ons1d
can Department at the Forei SR
Office, and Burgess, former Bec-
ond Secretary at the Embassy in
Washington, ed Britain in
May, 1951, while Maclean was
under observation on suspicion
of being n Soviet spy. Both havebeen reported in thegoviet Un-ion wonldng for the viet Gov-
Sir Anthony told the House of
Commons that the committee
would report to him. But he arid-
ed that if the members recom-
mended any changes in the law,
"that would be a m ter for this;
house." 1
Findings to Secret
His statement dica.ted- that
he did not intend to make the
group's ndings public except in
so far I5 they. related to sug-igested lee: changes. i" ' Authoritative sources said the
Government was reluctant to
make the outcome of the Inquiry d
public because it did not want i
to disclose how the security sys-
tem wcrlted_ 1
It is also understood that 0 e
or the chief red-5011s for the -
pointment of the committee as
to convince the Opposition bot
pa-rty, -which is represented on
it. that reforms in the security
system since the disappearance
ct the diplomats have made it
at least equal in effectiveness tow
those of other nations.
' Those appointed are:
The Marquess of Salisbury, ii
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Council and Leader ct the House 1
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I exsxnlne me security pmceduss
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= and -to consider whether any fur--'
ther precautions .ar called forand shouidbetake ' _
He said the co ittee would
have full power "to end for any
persons or papers t requires."
The decision to ho cl an inquiry
was announced by Sir Anthony]
during s recent debate in Com-i
mons on the Burgess-Mscienni
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- FROM OUR PARLIAM NT Y CORRESPONDENT
e conference of Privy Counsello I
ahat is to consider security precautio -
after the Macleari-Burgess affair h s
now been constituted. The Prime
Minister told the House of Commons
that it will be composed of Lord
Salisbury. the-liord-=¬hancellor Lord
Kilmujr!, the Home Secretary Mr,
Lloyd-George!, Lord Jowitt, Mrl
Herbert Morrison; Mr G. R. Strauss.
and Sir Edward Bridges the Per-
manent Secretary to the Treasury!.
The terms of reierence for the
ronierenee read:
To eigamine the security procedures
now applied in the public services and to
consider whether any further precautions
are called for and should be taken."
The material words now applie
wi 1 be noted. The inquiry will e
in the security precautions as th y
h e been stren thened sine i
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he conference clearly 'diE'l ' t1
c rnrnend itself to some back-ben hi
embers, as their questions show d.:
,__e Opposition Front Bench oe d :
no comment on the Prime Minist s . - '
announcement for the good reason ' ' '
that it is a party to it. The Prime
Minister prefaced his statement by
pointing out that he had consulted eMr Attlee as to who should serve on| '
the conference. an P ~ ""H- mac Q
A Closed Shop - I t
£0 Mr Be1ien%er the C0élf8lEl'1CEhiS"a most a close shop." ut in is-judicial way he said he could under- FLR ruin in.-quwili
stand the considerations which led to ~
making it a closed shop. What he wantedto know was it there would be any. i
report to Parliament from the confer-ence- The Prime Minister answered tl-inthe report will be made to him and'i.f . ' '92recommends any changes in the 1 wk ii
such [e_cpmmendations,___would. c e ...,_fore the House. =
ir Anthony would nofagree tha the
c nference is a closed shon. I is
c posed," he went on, oi mem ers 'BY LETTEF JL ..._ ~-- -. - 4
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r ponsibility during the period wh{this matter was under discussion." He
added they had also chosen present and
past Home Secretaries with experience
-of security problems. Mr Herbertg/IOXTISOE was a wag-.timi;:hliomehSet¬1reéary an , amona o er ings, e a
to administer the notorious securityregulation 18B. He was alsg Foreign
Secretary when Maclean an Burgess
escaped but that had evidently not been
ll-'Ol'IS1d§lEd a reason _f0r excluding him
'Irorn the conlierence!.
Mr Emrys Hughes saw the conferencesis another branch of the Secret Service.t_ ow _ar were members going to learnanything about the investigation, asked
-Mr Hughes. The Prime Minister
thought the selection oi leaders Irom
gboth sides of the House should inspirecondence his own words! in r
%"§§¬.§;i' --;;§.**. r= -rt" *"= tsp , as me o provi e a
cure tor you." This implied reco -
l menda_tinn,that.Ii'lr_ Hughes should h e
faith in his leaders was not lil_rely_ to
{ca y much weight with him. He has
no bump of veneration for his leaders,
it hey are his leaders.
3, roiound Disquiet »
M332. J;§»i'°i" 2~f» "i;.' 6" Par . ie onc mg a some ars|o£ %lé3 investigation must be treatgd as
con ential. suggested that ther wereother aspects on which published
1l1f0l'l'll3t10ll would be welcome. Heurged the Prime Minister to consider
putblfishgng what :-ould be retilealed wit: sa e y ecause er, was sti, ,_-1'_____ldisquiet arisins otlat of the tI:l:cl:1arh-
Btrgetssi agair. gt gisqui§t,bl1e'?:d&:.l. re ece in yes er ays e ae e
1 i-Iouseof Lords.
The Prime Minister repeated that the
formed to the undertaking he gave in
the recent Commons debate. He con-
, ..sidered the
t t men w
tth secure sites
B rgess
l in ,-sstigateerit ot the conference was
o were not in olce w en
arrangements were ti t-
e escape of Maclean cl
uld _ now be able to
. _ ,report will be made to him, which con-"01189-QliBI'lll0llSi£ May Hearf Nothing s1 _
' - From our Political Correspondent
The Privy Counsellors who are to
compose the conference" are all too
experienced in politics to be seriously
upset by the lack of enthusiasm with.-.L:..1.. 4.'L_ _ _ _ _ . . _ ____-_i. _: i.t_..:..Wlllil I-Ill": HIIHUUHCBIIIEIIL '01 tilt-:11
names was received in the House of
Commons yesterday. The House is
rather querulous about the inquiry
since members may never be told
anything about it: the Privy Coun-
sellors are to report to the Prime
Minister, and unless the law has to be
changed as a result of the report.
Parliament may hear nothing.more.
This possibility has concentrated
atiention on the composition of the
pa ty. It the security arrangements
ar to be surveyed privately by six
Pr vy Cotunselllors, are these the six
wh would have been chosen by secret
bailot and preferably by proportional
representation!? The Prime Minister
said it had been decided to exclude
from the inquiry those who in the main
had had direct Foreign Office responsi-
bility during the period when ' these
matters "that is, the Burgess and
Maciean afiairwere.under discussion.
Exceptions '.' , ,1 ''. .1-. . .1...
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There would not have been time, it is i
said. to have-instructed other Privy}
Counsellors in the ner points '0!
security. By this test." Mr George
Strauss, for exarnple,..qua1ies~thro is-Lhis experience et the Ministry ct Sepy. '-Mr Clement Davies does not quaty.i
There are. however, a number of Prlv YCounsellors who have had great expe
ence of the security system and w o
are outside the run oi party~po1itlcs
lsord Mountbatten tot Burma. l0l'linstance. - ' '
Anothier curious feature of the " con-
ference apart from the collective
no_un chosen by the Prime Minister or
this body1s its legal status. This maybe of no more than academic interest,
but it has caused some comment. The
conference is not a Select Cornmi =
the House with powers that a-.- ell
understood; but, like a Select m-....4iUli
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§ecurity"- in the public sdrvi s
is a twilight zone where the m ti
effective measures _ may be thosel
ltnown only to a few. The conference
of Privy Counsellors that is to look
into the matter is made up of men
_' with considerable experience of it."
That is hardly a ground for complaint,
though there might have been a case
for bringing in a fresh mind. Some of
the appointments may look a trie
odd, but for different reasons. The
members of the conference ere, as;
Mr Martin Lindsay suggested, most
of them busy men. The Lord,
Chancellor, Lord Salisbury, and-for . _
the moment-Lord Jowitt bear heavy
responsibilities in the Upper House.
So do the Home Secretary and Mr
Morrison in the Commons. How will
they set about their work ? They will
lh ve full powers to send for any
p pers or persons they may wish to
s . But will they have time to
in tiate inquiries and follow them p
after the fashion of a Select C -
mittee? Or will they in practice h e
lto be content with passing judgment]
on reports already drawn up for;
fthem? It is not quite clear. Their
. judgment would no doubt be valuable
in any event, but will they be able to
bring out the kind of evidence that is
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in odd corners? One would like to
be sure. Some members were con-iicerned yesterday at the thought that
result of the inquiry. Obviously
there must be a good deal in thel
ndings that cannot be disclosed. But
even if the conference recommends no
changes in the law it may have some-'
i thing to say about possible changes in
administrative methods. Might not
the" principles implied by such
lchangesrather than the details of
t ir -;enforcementbe a suita le
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The details of me -precautions w ehnlre taken against espionage and sabo-
tage 'in departments of state and their
offshoots are unknown to the public.
And it is obvious that they must remain
secret if they are to be etiective. The
cloak is necessary to beat the dagger.
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ever the precautions were in'the Foreign
Oice in the years leading up to the
tlight of Buncaass and MACLEAN in the
summer of 1951, they did not work in
the case of two men whose careers were
neither unblemished nor inconspicuous.
The public has also been assured that
since then security has been tightened.-
é That in itself does not inspire much con-
1.dence after what has happened. The
PRIME MINISTER, by calling a conference
of Privy Councillors of both main poli-
ticai parties, to review security pro-
cedures and to consider whether any
further precautions are necessary. has
chosen the best way open to him of
r storing condence. The Loan PR |-
D of the CouNci|., the Lotto Cu N-
e LLOR. the Home Secaennr, a for er
L rd Chancellor, ya fformer Fore n
Secretary, anojther former Cabinet
Minister, and the Penstmnirr Sscnennr
to the TREASURY combine experience,
judgment, and concern for the natiotfs
wellbeing which can be trusted.
In Tuesday: debate in the House of
Lords LORD Asroa expressed his dis-
satisfaction with the announcement that
the report would not be published. But
Loan Rename was right when he said
that anything less suitable for publica-
tion and debate in either House of
Parliament would be diicult to
imagine. But this does not mean that
the general verdict of the Privy Council-
lors or any recommendations they may
snake about " open " procedures should
not be communicated. The necessity [or
secrecy would be better understo if
'nislers were rather less enig atie
ab ut those parts of the securityarra ge-
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l=l92 inisle_r of Stale for Foreign Affairs, in thLommons. ' ' '
- It was particularly unfortunate that he should r
have used the phrase -witch hunt of those who were
trying to find the truth, said Lord Astor. .
" Trying to uncover treason is as much a duty as to _-
prevent burglary. The honest attempt to clear up thesematters should never have been stigmatised by that
questionable phrase."
Lord Astor, 48-year-old Tory and member of the
board or the Observer, joined other peers in pressing
q estions on Lord Reading, Minister ' of State tori - . .. . _y
F reign Aairs, in the Lords, about the disappearance
,'o the two diplomats. , , ~ .- They were dissatised with Government answers in : - ' .=w|[-hm ' -_ L I _ _____ , _____
the Commons debate. They wanted to know more. ' '
" ' " "*""" -"; ".. "hm": WHY was Mecleani
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WHY were both of them kept
i the service when their
rsonal misbehaviour wasknown ? '
WAS their conduct concealed
by Foreign Office oicials iromMinisters ll v
WHY were they allowed '
PD Q0 ? I _ 1I__WH¥_ were the Ports not -
alerted r t
WHY at least. were th lr~assports not taken from the ? -
.This attempt. *
to defend. . . - .
E Then came n new demand:
§'Le_i the Privy Council com--
§ mittee which is to investigate
5 security publish its renort toE Parliament tor debate. »' _-
said L-err! Reading. ani u - -into eecurit _couldi?gT=i:e published. ¥"' i
In vain, Lord Conesford
Tory! said it was an- inquiry.
into the Foreign Omce, not into ,
the Secret Service, it was hoped ;the Privy Council was in ;conduct. ' ~ l
And he boo mentioned the»words " witch hunt." He said: i'
" Witch hunt has a nasty avour j
because it ls a search for witches;
and as witches do not exist it.
used to be an excuse tor
tyranr1_v."
Lord Reading's answers to1- ..- 1 ' _.|,.n I. . _ _. Q _
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"Tr8»'§0I92 Was apparently
ensconced tor many years in the
very centre oi a great policy
making department and conduct
unworthy of officers and gentle-
men had been tolerated for aconsiderable tin:ie.- - ..
" Although the Prime Minister
and the Foreign Secretary made
eloquent speeches in the Com-
mons debate man questions.were unanswered which, it lull
condence is to be restored, had
better he answered once and'Ior
; all. That this matter has gone. on so long is larfely. the .Government's own tau t.
Was it hidden? 7
In early stages the Govern-
ment seemed more concerned to
l hide the truth than to uncover
l it. Answers gave the mmlrnum
cl information. .-Enquiries.
Journalistic and othera._..werediscouraged. -*""' '-" ' -.'
7 the Government that nowadays"~ The sad affair of Crlchel
Down [compulsortr transler offarm lum should have shown
the aairs 01- Breat departments
cannot be carried on yeilediinmystery. i . .
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the debate. with '-some heat '--: ." _ ."In 11 years in the Hoommons and three years in .-ouse,' I have never hear ah X,re chivairous and gal nt
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discipline and low ng 01'
conduct in the standards of _,public servlge! which would neverhave been lerated in the olddays. That is quite apart from
any question oi tr_ea.son* orCommunism," 1; .-IQ ~
9 li This man'f;"??i§ ; '
Maelean T1 Y?
to the case of M00181"!
detail
" It was surprising that Mac
lean got an important appoint-ment ai'ter- his bad record inEgypt." he said
- -This was to be head of the
American Department and Lord
Astor ridiculed the Forei
Secretary's attempt in tCommons to say it was oi! minorimportance
He pretended that theAmerican .Department onlydeals- with sending balletdancers to Bolivia laughter!It is most important. Its hea_dsees the ow oi papers. This
playing down does no credit toanyone."
Lord Astor said that Macleancontinued ins-' extraordinary
standard oi conduct when hewas back in England fromCairo. -
He used to go in the evening
and get disgustingly drunk in accrtain club. He twice engaged in drunlter.brawls with some Left-wingfriends in one oi which theywere rolling on the oor. Ineach case the cause ot theatta it was that they had
betr ed their former Left-wmg opinions. This was theheadno the American Depart-men
"§ rely heads of diplomatic
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departments should have higherstandards than private personswhether in the Aoice or not.Was this conduct known or wasit not? he demanded
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B urgess 5
Of Burgess, Lord Astorsaid amid laughter: "I amone of the gem people whonever knew im. Apparently
I missed a tot. And hewent on :-
" He was a most amusing
conversationalist. But he wasgréinken, dirty, and sexuallyt.OCH!
"At no time in the House of.Comnions was it said that
eople with this unfortunatehabit are not suited to conti-dential positions in the publicservice. ' 5
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laid down that persons shounot be used in the ForeiService ll they are likely to bringthe country into dlsrepute or laythemselves open to blackmail.-'
This passport
problem
§ Now came the warningE about the _i'-ijth. Column5 inside Britain." ' '
Lord Astor said he could nothelp thinking that if Britainwent down in defeat by theCommunists it would be ironicit Sir Antho Eden. meetingMr._Harold acmillan in thecorridors ot the Lubianlra Prisonin Moscow after a_ particularlyhorrible interrogation, were to$11.?! At any rate. nly dearHarold, we did nothi_ng to inter-fere with the liberties oiBiétlsllid >m:riuiiists." -ou ac ean's passport havebeen taken from him ? _Lord Astor said he did notwant a svstem of arrests onvslicion. "but hoped the PrivyCouncil would study the condi-tions in which people are treeto leave.
Lord Teviot Nat. Lib.!rollowed to protest at what hecalled th' dr t is cad ul blow toGovernment prestige here andabroad. '
There appears no doubt. said this grey-haired banker," that M1nl6tElS were not giventhe information they shouldhave had."
And Reading
, replies
Lord Reading. 66'-gear Idbarrister and e.r-Army Ii il,replied for the Governm iit.
He repeated the case thatMaclean was given a secondchance as head oi the AmericanDepartment after the drunkenbout in Cairo because or nis'otherwise excellent record andgreat promise,
OI course I agree it was aEI "It would havebeen in ch
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_lg episode is that w
isclplinary measures and new. inquiries on recruitment arenew in ioroe at the Foreign
To Lord Teviot he said.$01-e in the public interes it
Oice. '
. I' -- thumping the box : I have had .
nothing withheld from me fromthe beginnlig. to the end byomcials or e Foreign Omcewhich I reel now 1 ought tohave known.
Lord Reading complained. violently or some newspaper
articles. which he did not; specify, which used what -he_ calied this funiquekgind hgrrify- .ri a ar" o rec c a_ on! the F0!'Ei§lFf'UTb§s§L&'.rIa'_
. And again passionately beat-
, ing the despatch box with two
Q and denounce; attempts to-- tarnish it; ' - ' ~_
E The last word
i from Astor
Lord Astor. comment ng
on the debate and he
Reading speech. hinted that
many people knew a gooddeal more Hum has yet come
out in public about this. = busiiiess, .
" He said: " '_Ihere was a constant
series or incidents in Egypt."
i He did not want to air moredirty linen. but as an example : "A member of the women's
services happened to nd her-se_li' in an aii-plane in Egypti Filth lglalean a.ndr_hls bth-Vigil!owar s er in va ious ways as
i. extremely rude and unpleasant."she mentioned it to anothermember oi the embassy stawho said: Oh yes. that is~ Maciean. He is notorious tor- that type oi bad behaviour.
;_= "I could give . . ," he broke
;l;I_her% ngpoint 1% going n o is. e orei n erviceas a whole t-1lOl'OUghfV disliked
discredltable perioriiiane inCairo." he said. But the fulldetails were not known to theambassador in Cairo at theme.
" After he had come back. and
following the reports from theainbaasadors under whom he had9292Ol'kE!d., no inquiry was madefurther back into the past, andI do not see any reason why itshould have been."Slapping the despatch box.heatedy the white-haired. _ f__ mister oi State exclaimed: -,,- A great many people iri t e ;_:rs since Burgess and Macl n-- 55Ed h dl gj sappear ave been nit uite i'r ely on reminiscenqwhat ¢they kne_w.__ '. _ - " aclean. _- . 4 _1<_- _,.. ~ ...=§. - .' _.;t. s...r_,-_ =}.:j': ._ "E-_...' banan-_i_-=- -_,_,,: __sl92.._. . g .Le; this type or conduct. . 1. In a final word, Lord Astori , said that more To peers wouldj, . lggve spoétenmbn ihe point htagi en ma c em apparen _bv the Government Whips! thati they should keep__qli;iet until t e' ; P vy Council :" qiilryiii DIQWL 1_ 1 ow' he complained its coking to be told that t 5re never goln to hear w t.
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SECURITY
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HERE is 'o Communist Filth Colu
. Britain, people dedicated to o tos with
o standards of honour, no patriotism, d no
possibility of compromise, Viscount Ast said
yesterdciyigi o grave warning given to the Lords.' Opening Cl debate on the missing
diplomats,' Maclean and
Burgess, Lord Astor said it"was remarkable _' that the
people of Britain have been
so slow in realising -the
theory of Communism -and
its importance.
We have got to recognise,"{he told the House, " that for the
p rst time since the reign or Queen
izabeth the F1irst,we have a Fifth
mn-in -this country-9. Fifth
C iurnri that has penetrated the
-h ghest. ranks of the Civil Service,
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" We are neither at peace, nor at war, but in cold
war, and we cannot judge measures it is right takeby the normal standards or peace.;___* __ _____Wm__,
Lord Astor iurged the,
strictest security measures,
even it it. meant preventins
people leaving the country,
He posed for the peers a pic-ture or what might hagpen it
Britain went down un er theCommunists. He suggested 9,meetinq of the Prime Minister
with the Foreign Secretary, Mr.Harold Macmillan. in 01518 of thecorridors of the Lubian a Prison.loscow. after q erce interroir -on. * L i
SECURITY ' '
one ova it - '
i le tdfayz At least. my d rarold we did nothing to int - 'r re with the liberties or ariti h
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d Lord Astor drove home
int bv repeating that Bri in: in a. cold war. and we m sti oi: at our traditional jiract esOm I-hat Dvint oi? view.- He said: No organisation
i or hody of any men should
consider itself above security.We must be assured that. security has the fullest coopera-. . tion i_'rom all departments. The
security services must haveample facilities in men. money.and technical means." i - -
. Lord Astor made it clear thathe blamed the Government forthe matter 01' _the missing diplo-mats going on tor so long. i1 In earlier stages." he said.-" they seemed more concerned to
hide the truth than uncover itwith answers here and in theCommons -giving the Wei-y mini-mum or i ormation. _ -
WITCH HUNT _ "
iUnfortunate phrase ifi1 lngruiries, both Journalistic.land o ere, were discouraged." "
I It was unfortunate that the1 Minister or state should have;1 ggsgriid those "trying to dis-- e truth as engaging ina " witoh hunt. -
iasTo trg todurgooverbgreason was! rnuc a uy as prevent a-
burglary An honest attempt toclear tlhese bmatter up shougd never a e gm;that phrrfse. em 5 Y-i.
It the Government had comeforward with nonestapologiee,said there had been e. great mis-
ty: aiming resglciinsillggiity god been n. wo ve 'bCl»l?B1 U1I!l iatewiiriouseelitivhitelrPaper. i _" -- ' p
Stronzlir Lord Astor critie appointment of Maeiea asend of the American De rt.-;
ent after his terrible be-'aviour in E t"EYD. Ma canp ad continuer1__tlii;,_eiit[aord1n,-I
-. -ms rime Ministernvould I ' " i "" ' '
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' oi-_v standard oi ocnd-uet in this
country.
He used to do in the eveningeand~ get disgustingly drunk in 1.
i certain club. Lord Astor said.
He twice erllraeed in drunken
brawls with Left-Wing friends. inone of which thtlf were roiilmr on
l the oor. In each case the oause
IO! the attack was that they hadfbetra-yed Iornjter Leit - Wingopinions." -
This. said Lord Astor, was the
Head of the American Depart-
lmcn-t oi the Foreign Oice.
EBURGESS
Drunken, dirty
Die the Foreign Oice knowthese. facts? Oausticeilv Lord
Astor suggested that if thev were
ignorant of them it woe hard to
believe that they could live inauch an ivory tower.
He believed that the Foreign
ce took the view that what was
d ne in spare time was the busi-. as of the person concerned.
Of Bureess. Lord Astor saidhe was drunken. dirty and_le_xu_al_i§v£i£fectlve." He had been
92at 4"" 3.. _ ....~
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like that ver since school and
had med no pretence about it.
There should be a rule that[north whole conduct would brinehe r count:-v into dlsrecute or laythem open t blackmail should notbe used til the Foreman Service.Budgzeet nl that seeurltv oicleleeoul have taken the passporie
frornB res e Mel UK s nd a can whenthey were leavina the countriv.Lord Astor queried whether it spossible to learn; Britain withoutpassport. - _ I tried it mge1!." he_sa1d," and went to ndon Airport
without a passport. I was politely
told bv the Scotland Yard officerthat I could not leave. .
"I toid him he had no right to
stop me and he agreedirut Iicculd not leave the country." I
Tr-in Manouiss or Reanrrro.
Minister of State. Foreiirn
Oice, said that the- FOTOIED
Ofce did not know the fullgxtlgit Oi MiGlEBl.'l'5 d.I'iI92klI92Iou . -
" How could the Foreign Ofllcetell the 7" he asked. "Are Euto have peop.e nosted to we hhim at verv oartv he ices to and
detail em to reoor hack onwhat h save and done '* "
"It s eml.to me that e great
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many people in the days Ii eBurgess mg Maciean disappearedihsve been inlne out quite freelyI on reminiscences of Ill thev know i
labcut them when they were stilltin the Foreign Omen.
' It would have been much more
in the public interest i! theseBleoplc had come Io:-ward and tolde I-oreiln Oloe dunru: thetime when that lntormatlon could!have been cut to proper use." .
;; _-_Thc report to be made--onisecurltf by a committee of priv coiinee lczreb Lordblgeadinz sairil w no e u ed ;ori besubject to debaa, = - - ;
_ The Whole object of the report I18 to concentrate on the presentistate and possible future improve ment_ o-t_ our securttv services." the said. ' and anvthtmz less suit»
able for publication and debate?it would be drltlicult to lmazlne"1DIRTY LINEN l »' 3-
No more than needed _ ' h
M After Lord Reading had spoken.I.-one Ari-roa said: The noble-lord is not the only member ofthis House whiil knows a. greetdeal more than e chooses to say.j Most of us know aeood deal. more 0! what happen . but we
do not nartlcularly want to air.more dirty linen in public than is necessary." - .3_.~- _> 1
There was more v than one
Maclean incident_ in Egypt, in-cludlng his behaviour towards e
member of the women; servicesin an aeroplane. He said 1 I
could dive . J . but there i.|_ an
point logging into this." I
1 ord Astor said he was shock dt t there would be no rapport ._it, to hear more or H:li.t' rel."_ W Counsellors committee e-'ci e. He would raise the mat rsiof .i0Gl.ll1t8!. F0rl!ti|nO:cc recr luiment, an conduct at a later date. - -_._i_ ..l_ _ _:. 1
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Maclean in Berlin agai r
Froin FREDERICK sauna: ,' , '
i . . urinh, Tuesday. ONALD%l.ACLEAN now a'£2,500- _ore gn atrairs adviser ffto the Kemlin leaders, has been in -A/'_'92
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as adviser
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t Berlin all through the present "viireign Ministers"; Conference i - at
neva. -" -
The highly placed Russian oicial who
ve me the first told me this today also ga
Communist version oi the
case oi the missing diplo-
mats, published in theDally Mail on November 3.
He told""'me 'thtn"that
during the Big Four "Sum-mit conference last summer
Maclean stayed in East Berlin
to analyse plans put forwardby the West, -
;I0day the Russian toldIn I
Maclean Periormed thesame task or the Soviet
or-eign Ministry during thisonferenee as he did ,lastumm -' Mrs. Maciean
to East Berlin on October 24.
"With Maclean were a
hand!-u1 of otllclals who
normallv work closely with
him. He was to remain in
East Berlin for the duration0! the conference." "
Answering some of rnv _fur-ther questions, the Russian.who has known Maclean since
the summer oi. 1954. said:
" Perhaps later on Maciean
will be allowed to come andlive in Moss w with his family.
- "For the time beimr he is
sharing e. rwate villa withe --%t=*<¢-1":*.*.gabout 400 rniiles east of Moe-
cow. All his worir is con-"'
centrated there, and he ls
under strlct;orders not toleave that town without- Zspealal authority,
His salary would be the
i -rouble equivalent of about£.2,soo." - -
The Ruslan oiliclal said
that Mrs. Melinda Mnclean
knew at the time that her
husband "vanished" 11-om
England that she would Johim in Russia.
" She believed that s_
would be H-ble To to to Russ:
almost as soon as she we
to Switzerland. Instead. a-
most a year elapsed before she
could do so. _
I don't know what
accounted for the delay, butit made Mrs. Maciean uncer-
tain alter a time as to
whether she would really be
able to join her husband, and»
at one point she thought or
goin to live in Amerindia-stead." -
This version dovetails wit
what friends of Mrs, Maclea
at Geneva told me the da
her disappearance becmer. He was own from Moscow another Stat ofcial in a town known. _l
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Burgess ease
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o posts abroad.
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The five Forei n Office men we
_ RQBERT TURTQN, was nead or the Personnel
Department.
Mr. Middleton. aged 45. ls nowDeézuty High Commissioner inIn ia. He is due to return tothe Foreign Omce next spring.
Awarded the C.M.G. 1950.
MR. GEORGE A. CAREY-
FOSTER was head OI the
Security Department.Canadian- orn Mr. Carey-
Foster. 48 his week. became
counsellor n the Warsaw¥9r'g1£Ja$y a onth I-IO. O._M.G./' '-" 7
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MR. [now SIR! HENRY-ASHLIIY CLARKE and MR.
DARCY I. REILLY were the
supenntending under-secretaries.
Sir Ashley Clarke. aged 52.became ambassador in Home
two years ago. K.C.M.G. 1952.Mr. Reiiigr. aged 46. wasappointed M nister at the ParisEmbassy in 1953. He was charge
d'ai.faires 1953-54. C.M.G. I94?92IQ£I"¬'f|
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disappeared in May 1951MR. ROBIN W. J. I-IOOPE
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Mr. Hoopenls 41. has beencounsellor in the BagdadEmbassy since 1953. C.M.G. 1954.
The other three cumin!-
ments were still the same.
U92l'bIl-lI92J92|pI~ r
Mr. Turton conrmed at
since I952 [our Foreign ser ice
omcere have been moved on
security grounds. He would iveno names.
He also said that none
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in Britain's Maclean-Burgess
spy case,-itzwas disclosed yes-.
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The assurances were given
by the Department in an "in-
terim"..letter on the Mae1ean-[Burgess ' case delivered to
'§Chalrn1an James O. Eastlend
_. D-Miss.! of the Senate Internal[Security Subcommittee. '
'____15_astland had asked the De-
partment a string of questions,
including -whether secret in-
lformation had leaked to Red
China via British sources dur-4
i
Jug the Korean war. He was
particularly interested in g_et-
I511 D Q? %*i'§uM°1?¢B'i§§}=i . 8 .. HE 81!. Have played
-in fu eling American secrets
to Ru ia. _
2' Bot had served in Wash! g-. ._ ._ . .- -. I - . '~ '- :".1g4"' _. -'»_'-'-.1-m ~,.- --=-mp" ' '5 '-:- -l " ' - ' "'. W P"-'._ H -.45 92...".,:... " g_".'_".' 1."; ..
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land's questions. It advised the
Senator that the nature of the
inquiries would require exten-
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Maelean had access to United
State Atomic Energy Head-
quarters for some of the time
he was assigned to the British
Embassy here between -1944
and 1948. Oicials have said
his part-time job as secretary
of the Combined Policy Corn-
mittee, a three-power group oE_
some atomic problems, did not
authorize him to handle Ameri-
can secrets.
There has been speculation
that Maclean provided the
Chinese R-eds with assbrances
that United States forces would
not cross the Yalu River ii the
Reds 1 vaded Korea. Maclean
headed the American section
of the itish Foreignpice in
late 19' after the Korean war
had bee
months. ~under way for severalJ¬.__ 0-'19
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¢',. 92_ D -,__, _. I 9292e*____".. __-p|.;.'s ...J-.£?::._n...~} gtiifi...-.. 'si'1...- '?'s~ »*r'==-Stirn ' actually believed that
their nhat- new .rt] H" Ojtand atom , 5'1
bombjwere so
eecretthat _they "won 1 d¢_=_;
gr. ,,f.._.,; - ,_s,q._;.:__ .~ I ~ t-
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President ¬;.. _Harry Tru-. v
man about-it. ; -_
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serous;
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ing.-as l?resi~ - . .
dent, Stimson stayed behind to
tell him what was going on.
Truman says in his memoirs:
. . . . Stimson told me that
-he wanted me toknow about
i immense project that was
under way-a project looking
to the development ota new
explosive of almost unbeliev-
-able-destructive power. That
was all he felt tree to say at
the 'time, and his statement
left me puzzled. It was the rst
information that had come to
ma about the atomic bomb, but
he gave me no details . J ."
if this business was really
so' secret, why did not the
Pentagon set up an adequate
security system! The FBI was
kept out of it but not Dr. Klaus
Fuchs who; although.a known
ComL!_1uhLSt,_192g|$_permitted toenter this country and to work
_st the Manhattan Proiect.
But not only was the Vice
President kept in ignorance
but the_ Congress. Harry Tru-
man recounts that when he
was chairman or a Senate
committee investigating - the
national defense, Stimson
came to him. This is the way
Truman recounts it: -
"_SENATOR,' the Secretary
Stimson! told me as he sat
beside my desk, I can't tell
you what it is, but it is the
greatest project in the history
of the world. It is most top-
secret. Many of _the people
who are actually. engaged in
the work have no idea what
"itis, and we who do would.11 lS.star_tliJ1£, at this one;
'9 read that President Roose-=' " velt s Secretary of Warl ,1"-92 0-19»-~ 11 " I -v. . _ - - ~ 4 -. : - . -g-~ . .. I - _': ._ |'_ 1__A- k. qlr 4 Q . r-rwvun . p
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he "would have -Ies.rned'that
the secret was already out,
that the Russiahrhad already
stolen it. that the United
States was living in a tool's
paradise. ~
_ The day may come when
the British government will
pluck up the courage to -tell
Parliament what they icnow
about the erimei of Burgess
and MacLean. When they
were in this country as Brit-
iah ofncials, they were Rus-
slan agents. Whatever passed
between the American andEriitish governments, it h e ya . - -
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
has testied that his battle
orders were passed on to the
enemy in the Korean war.
He investigated _ thoroughly.
The leal: must have been inWashington - - -
THERE HAS BEEN some
speculation that the leak was
in the State Department.
Suppose the American Gov-
ernment engaged upon die-
cussions with the British
-government concerning this
decision and the documents.
back and forth, passed over
the desks of Burgess and Mac-
Lean. And suppose they made
copies and passed them on to
their Russian masters. F§nowl-
edge ot the truth, it 1 did
nothing else, would cl nse
the reputations or susp ctedAmericans., --= V = ""I-le"i"lIeit Morrison in the
British Parliament has been
pressing Sir Anthony Eden to
-tell the whole truth about
these scoundrels. We do not
know how much Eden knows,
but _the explanations given
thus tar are not plausible.
From the American stand-
pointyit would -be sufiicient
if-we were told that the dis-
'eussion about the Manchurian
' sanctuary did pass over the
" Burgess and MacLean desks,
.hut the'truth must be re-
'vea1ed in Washington or in
London, because men: his-
toric reputations are at stake;
and just as Harry Tru an
wrote his memoirs. to
these other men. -
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ii i - '- l 1 _ . p-- irr IS gluing, at this date.
to read at President Roose-
velrt and_ Secretary -of War
Stimson actually believed that
_ »c .n'>'s,,--- _
t a n Project£2 b ° "om e _. i
m were so =a e c-r e t that
they w on l d 2;:not tell Vice _ 353;.
Pr e s i d e nt r ; '.:'P"*'II"nr1II' rrll, " " I :3as on p e ; opal
man about IL
After Truman -'
held his rst -
Cabinet»meet-- ..ing as Presi- 5°"?"'" '
t, Stimson stayed. behind to
hint what was going on. -
'1ruman'says in his memoirs:
.. . . Stimson told methat
he-'wanted me to know about;
animrnense project that was
under way--a project lookingi.
tonne development of s new .
explosive o_£ almost unbeliev-
able destructive power. That
wet all he felt free to say at
the time, and his statement
left me puzzled. It was the rst
information that had come to
me about theatomic bomb, but
he gaveme no details . . ." _
If this business was really
so secret, "why did not the
Pentagon,sei. up an adequate
security-system? The FBI was
kept out oi it but not Br. Klausee
tell
Communist,,was permitted to",
enter this country and to work
.at the Manhattan 4
But not only was the Vice
President kept in ignorance
but the Congress. Harry Tru-
malrrecounts .that_ when he"
was. chairman of ' a - Senate
committee investigating the
-national" defense, S t i n1 so n
came to him. This is the way>
Irumsn receded ltzl I - .
SENKTORJ the Secretary
Stimson! told me as he sat
beside "my deslr,- 'I can't tell"
you what it is, but it is the~
greatest project In the history
or the world. It is most top_'
secret. M y of" the peopiewho are ituallyengaged inI i/iliuchs who, although a known
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-ibis, and e who do would
appreciatefyour not; g o ln.g_int-o.i.hose_plants.' ' A
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man made _'hls' investigation,"
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that the Russians had already pressing Sir Anthony Eden to 92
stolen it. that the Unitedgtell the Whole truth about Mr Shoo
States was livingin a mm. these gcoundreis. We do not '
paradise. " - know how much Eden knows, Mr. Winterrowd,4__.
The day may come when but the explanations given -I-Q1 Room -
the British government will thus tar are not plausible. ' _pluck up the courageto telllirom the" American stand- ML Holloi
P_arliament'what they know point, -_ 1t would he sumclent M185 Gandyabout the crimes of IBurgesa_'_1t we were told that the .dis-
and MacLean.' When "they," cussion aboutthe Manchurian-
wene in this country as -Brit-__'__a;net1_ler;r, did pass over the1:11 oi=ia1s. they were 3111- fisurgess and MacLean desks,-
sian agents. Whatever passed , but {hg truth must be N.
between the American and vealed in Washington or in ,British lovernmentl. they___London. because men: his-. J -had. " itoric reputations are at stake Wand just as Harry TrumaniHerbert Morrison lnlthe
British Parliament has been
Gen. Douglas Maclkrthul-_
enemy in the Koi-eanwsr.92 _He investigated thoroughly. l" "'_ *f' " °"'- "- _The leak must have been .1n_F- * " " "
Washington * ._. H _____
. THERE HAS BEEN some
speculation that the leak was,
in the State Department--'
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ernment engaged upon _dis-
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orders.were passed on to the_ these other men. -.
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the desks of Burgess and Mac.-L! , 1
Lean. And suppose they made
copies and passed them on to
their Russian masters. Knowl-_
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nothing else, would cleanse
the reputations of suspected.Americans. l if
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*9 The State Department has
pledged its full cooperation t0
fsenatorl investigating possible
irlkmerican security violations
in Britain! Maclean-Burgess
ispy ease, it was disclosed yes-_tenday. " 1 '
~-Ih-e assurances were given
by the Department in an in-
terim letter on the Meeleete
-Burgess ease delivered to
.Chairman James O. Eastiand
D-Miss.! of the Senate Internal
}Security Subcommittee. . .
Eastiend had asked the De-
partment e string of questions,
including whether secret in-
formation had leaked to Red
China via British sources dur-
ing the Korean war. He was
.particu1arly inter sted in get-' ting'k:gsta"on"vIha§i'ole British
-dip ats Donald __aelea!1 and
t es1 iBTursss"*sm1enrnwe"o1Hs@dtin tunneling American secrets
to Russia. . , ', _i" Both had served in Washing-
ton. They disappeared from
Britain in Ma 1951 and areY,eoprted in Moscow. 1,, - ,1'L_T'ire-State Department didI 1 t =_._, ---_ H -1- _._. . -_
921 minors.Pro:11is¢di<1Aid.in
land's questions. It advised the
Senator that the nature of the
inquirieswould require exten-.Mr. Toleon
if Mr. P _ _,/ _u1~.& Mr.Be1gn_J -__ . " J Mr: Horbo
' I idr. Mohr '
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sive investigation and eonai-d1
erable time. - = "
Maclean had access to United
State _Atomic Energy Headé;
quarters for some oi the time
he was assigned tcvthe British
Embassy there between 1944
'and194B.' Ofciali have said
this part-time job as secretary
;o£ the Combined Policy Com-
imittee, e. three-power group enIsome atomic problems, did not-
authorize him to handle Ameri-
can secrets.
There has been speculation"
that Macieau provided the
Chinese Reds with assurances
;tl1at United States forces would
{not cross the Yalu River if -the
Reds invaded Korea. Maciean
eaded the American sectio
I the British Foreign Olce i
ate 1950 after the Korean w
ad been under way for severiinonths. '
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ton or haying told Moscow thatthere would be no full-scale
retaliation aeainst the Chinese
ii Peking intervened in the war.
Eastlano ha.s'been promised
by the State Department thateverything Eosslblc will be do e0 co-crperae with his inqiui .nd a great deal more pubic ybout t e Fprelgu Qlce secu 7
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MARCUS LIPTON.
yesterday withdrew hi];
llegation against Marold "Kim"! Phi1b%1-. Philby is Nor; tn
. hird... .Man._ ._in the
Burgess-Maolean case. he
told the Commons. <
MP5 listened in silence as
Colonel Lipton. Socialist
member tor Brixton. said :1
I have studied carefully thefull report of Mondsdebate. and in Fpartieuiar e
speech _ot_ the preign §eci_'_e:Til-l'li7. 1 have MSG TEEQ tneeta ement made to the Press
by Mr. Philhy.As a consequence oi that further
examination, I am eatlsed
that there is no iusticati
y e p rs
warned Burgess and Macie .
r that heengazed in dubio
ird Man activities
i.iacl.l?L1il"-i case
Bufi1_ 100-37t1t3!
a.
DAILY axe ss
NOVEMBER 11, 1955for the allegation that M.Phiib is e on w lMY DUTY
In oh circumstances I cons eri groper, and regard it as my
~ J-cr..r;.""::;r.a2s"a .4;
§}.',?"3§.i§i.E§'i.. 'ii.ZEi2i}téi 1..-iiMonday. 'Aeoordlnzlgc; I have asked per-mission mel-te this statement
here so that 115 may appear in
the otnciai record or the
proeeedings of the House.and to say how deeplyI regret the charge I made. l
There were murmurs of approval t Colonel Lipton sat down. i15 personal statement was not
debatable in the House.
M.P.s heard him say on Monday i
that he stood by his originalgklestion about " dubious Thirdan activities" of Mr. Philby.
who was a British En1bass_ rstsecretary in Washinigto in1951 at ths time oi the u ese-
Maelean ight.On Tuesday he spoite to the ress
Iir the rst time stow his
1- signation from ,tne Foreigni
thee in 1951.
"I am not the Third Man, hel istcd. " I never got in touch
ith Burgess arter e left
Washington. . . . I did not see
him or speak to him again. nor
die he or Maeiean get in touch
with me." .
ITS CLOSED
At Mr. Phiibyis home rt Cramp-
borough Sussex. his wife saidlast r12'gi1t: -
My husband has given m_e I.
prepared statement to read to{out I thinl: that Colonelipton has done the right
thing. As far as I am con-
cerned the incident is now
closed. That's all he has to53,3: . . . gODd1'ii%ht."And Colonel Lip on? D -1 M" still beHei:'ethere was at Third
Man? . -
Q replied last night: I ca.nt
say any more at the mo ent.
There is nothinz more can
add today."
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LONDON. Nov. 10 III-_-A
Laborite member of Parliament
today withdrew his ch arge
that 'iorn1er diplomat Harold
';":"92;».T-?~_E'_~r _1<-we Phiiby was the
"third man"
. _.-__§§;_.;_,= *=§:f;;jFif:. 1;/in lhl G..lL¥" '-I,_w._'_>1".""-§{§._.. = -Bu;-3§_5_g - DQ11-
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,1; Lt. Col. Mar- -.~; ,1" cus Lipton told
_=_*= Commons he~ "unreserved-
IY canceled
his charge
ms. P 1ii3iz
Secretary at the British Em-
bassy in Washington, was the
man who tipped off Maclean
and Burgess to ee behind
the lron Curtain.
The two suspected diplo-
mat-spies escaped on May 25,
1951, the day the Government,
had ordered them questioned.
Philby, who had challenged.
Lipton to repeat his charge
outside the privileged floor of
C aid l1' ommons s e was very;
I1 y" Lipto h d lad *i Apology N ;urn: u-u-00; / = - "-_"
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Hr. Boardman
Ma. Nich -
Mr. Be _,
MrI i-larbo
Mr. Mohr
Mr. Parsons __.i_
Hr. Rosen
Mr. Tamm
Mr. Sizoo
Mr. Winterrowd .._....._.
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diplomatic aervice in 1951 b
cause of Communist associ .
tiona while in college.
Lipton said he studied Ma
rniI1ans statement carefully
along with Phiiby's later
denials.
- I am satised, he said in
Commons, "there la no just! app n a wit tawny -
UM l!hl1B9!- fication for the allegation th t
Ilso tar as I lm concerned
the incident is now c1osed,". hesaid.
Foreign Secretary HaroId.[.hla=d-moi n activities. M ills l ----~--- acm n est week cleared
Philby of the charges and said
there may not have been a
tip-of! man at all. He an-
nounced that Philby had been
l ' v -','~ _ -"H /IH? f92 |.C'-$- D mr; W» LMr. Phllby is the person w
warned Burgess and Maclea
or that he engaged in dubio
asked L49 resign from
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i---_- _ SPIES> . ' . I - ' 'I LONDON--LABORITE LEGISLATOR MARCUS LIPTON SAID HE IS CONVINCED _THERE....
WAS "NO JUSTIFICATION" FOR HIS CHARGE THAT HAROLD PHILBYT SI-I-NT-THE P"'-
WARNING THAT MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR BRITAIN'S MISSING DIPLOMATST TO
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ESCAPE THROUGH THE IRON CURTAIN FQUR YEARS AGO»
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THAT PHILB_Y, A ronmzn EMPLOYE 01- THE FOREIGN on-1c£, wumzn §uY"'BuRc£§§___4 AND'fn'pNA*Lnf§1!§*c1;_g_5_|g__ THAT THE AUTHORITIES SUSPECTED THEM 01- BEING - *
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A the Third Man
PLLT SPEAK LATER, 1112 SAYS
By WALTER TERRYIBQR the first time §ince he came to Parliament Lieut.- -
Colonel Marcus Lipton captured the limelight "1
the Commons yesterday without saying a word. /
Member for Brixton. who is usually so talkative, r
mained silent when his chance came to make a person iI
' M.P.s crowded their benches
expecting his reply to a. chal-
lenge from Mr. Harold Philby,
former Foreign Oice ofcial. |
In the Commons Lieut.-Colonel|Lipton named Philnv as 'Ihird|Man in the Burgess-Maclean case.
_ Mr._PhilbY.on '§u_esd5_.V. chal-llonged the Lieut.-Colonel to re-|
peat hi; accusation outside the
House. In reply Mr. Lipton de-clared: "I propose to make ll
sta ment in the House." .
l F6?-irialifiés l ,., L ut--Colonel Lipton loo d
.steadily at his Order Paper wh n
the moment came when he could
seek permission to speak. A5 the
afternoon debate began Lieut-
Colonel Lipton walked over to the
lspeaker and handed him a i.ype--
-written document.
'IhS k tdidthd - ¢.-- *"l._meme @353 iitansdgd it to Z Clgrlkl L! LU H ' J 11?: .3
oi i.he'11ab1e. c lonel L1 ton andl .the Clerk talkegl togethgr for cl PER FOEF. iii-'gi_i;;Sl' _
Iew minutes.
Last night, Colonel Lipton still
would not say when he will make
his statement. Be added: There
are !ormalities'to be completedrst. Then I wlll speak.
_ A cl Mr.- Philby. at his mother's
tho e in Drayton-gardens. Kens- ,mg n. said; "There is nothir D.-;;:_;___,___ _____;_-r---- , _ 92-TC? C_E?ilIZG ; -_
mo e 1 can do it Colonel Llpl: n . ,
.1-er ses to accept, my challenge. I.___l _._|.. ___. . __ _._n_92:_ ._=..= _.
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Evidence: Friendship With Burgess= e , i /"' »~ ¬ § V... $92. t N M i' E21? ' '.e -_ DAILY Tl'.'l'.l§ !RAPH REPORTER . ~ *~-= l1=it i
Mr. Harold Philby, former First SecretaryX ._.;,_ Hat the British Embassy in Washington, yester-day made a statement on his own FOSIUOIL in theMaclean-Bur ess affair. He chal enged Lt.-Col. LiPton, Socizist M.P. for Brixton, to groduce . '1 » -=~z-_ It, _ ..___._,kevidence to suiziport his allegation of Mr hilbys _ :---A t dubious thir man activities." i _;._!
Mr. Macmillan. ForeignSecretary, said in the House Q , 11
f Commons debate on Mori ay that there was no reason .1 -0 identify Mr. Philby wiih the " third man," if in :;~.-.-fact there was one. ~ i " '' " ,:~;'-
A slim. dark man oi 43 with a:uicic smile and ra id nervous; ;I_»-I .gestures. Mr. Phiiby iield a. Press- §i"3"1°-1'"H '.Y .d =5... ' Fe-_1,. _ ;_--wt._¢'.zf',§-H1--. _," ' " - 4 -us <.:§ ' ,i- ,1 -.=:*~ - ,1 ;:I1r"7i:J'T-<.1-a-'-:2" " I-. .7-+'=-".;~"?-'-;;_;=*.E'.' "- ' ,"I= rt =;--., *5 5 ,"I92_--H92:i=4*?'!1."& '.¥§."{< Lu»-'51-"-:..=-_;_-~ -' "F,'I~9£ ~ A .i.."Mk '1 Hwt. I .--92i_'. ".'~<= '1! r>'- ;-; =:;._,_ l____, ._ ,;;-|;.-¥----.-- .,-l'= » - P1.-.".'--' - :»==._-, iv-=_ _:. r.;r._:',92 :._ .-' - = -"!"i"--}4I'1-MI"K .;
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dozens oi questions. -- -
He said that the Oicial Secrets
Act. and concern foi-"internationalEmblems oi " great delicacy " raised_v the case and for the efciencig oithe security_services prevented imrigiri discussing the Maclean-BurgessB. alt.
M.P.s QUESTION '_ -
From A Safe Place _
His even good humour in answer-I
ing or blocking questions gave wayto a touch oi anger as he said: -Ont
O t. 25. Col. Lipton. from a. sa ellpi ce. sneaks into 9. suplpiement yi ii .stion the charge that was Full yloi n crime -for which the max mu
p iait.v is 14 years. or something Ithat order.
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rst becrelnry nt il;c Bi-itisii m-zissy in 92Vas|un_uion, talkm e tortcrs at his mi-ems hon ' in_ I
Kensington yesterday.. .__._._. .,
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" He produced no shred of evid cesupport that threat. under wh ch
I ave now lived for 12 d9-Y5-
Last ni lit in the House inlil tori agagin refused to Dl0d 3evidence. refused to withdraw t e
charge and reiusecl to repeat it out-side the House. In iustlilcation ofhis refusal to repeat t outside theHouse. he iniiu ged in the extra-ordinary verbal gymnastic oi sayingthat even Mr. l_? ilbll had not aaite
him to do so.
"I suggest he repeats the charge
outside the House and iJ!°'-W995evidence or. if the evidence really
is so secret. he should forward it. ashe suggests. to a judicial memberuofthe Privy Council and mlmwh Biwitlidraw the chars: until T-1"member has had a chance of exam-
ining the evidence and Dronounclngupon it." -
REQUEST TO RESIGN
r. Philby said he resigned fromth Foreign Oice. on request. inJu _ 1-.951, "I certainly regard the 1re 1:5; [,9 resign as a direct font?quence of an imprudent assoc a _
-that ls. with BurEB55-i
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to eglng three times on the me. .v- - .
' r. Philby said he was egg:-ie ed
_a_ what Burgess had done 'o_n he.b ger issue. even more than ab utits effect on his own career. " ut
ithere are fair weather friends and
;f0ul weather friends. and I prefer
-_t_o belong to the second category."
Asked if this meant he still con-
sidered himself a friend of Burgess.
he said it meant he was not going
to indulge in mud-slinging. He met
_ Maciean in 1937 or 938 and a ainJust before or after 618 outbreai of
war. but he was only a shadow inhis memory. .
Mr. Phiiby said his own politicaldevelopment had been unspectacu-lar. e was a member of the
Socialist Society at Cambridge. . Ihave never been a Communist.
though i knew people who were
Commiinlst at Cambridge and for ayear afterwards. The last time I spoke to a Com-
_ ilnlst. ltnowliig he was one, was in1 He had always been on the
ii-ice leaving the Foreign O ce
h had been a free lance writer nI sign affairs. A book now in
manscrlpt form would touch on e
Macieari-Burgess affair. but o ly"episodicaiiy" in dealing with -
-ternationai aairs.
Mr. Phiiby said his wife and ve
children were staying with friends: outside London. '
NO REPLYBY M.P.
Statement in House
He ma known BurZ!53- an Y"1=ofl. since undergraduate dags ll-- - onths eiore §T§mrtl§i?i§§i§°£J$§it§§i'iii Mair. 1951.Burgess lived at his house in Wash-ington. I more or less sponsoredhim in that rather hectic society ofWashington." ' .
He never knew Burgess W?- aC0llll"]lUl1iSb-". BUI8¢-$5 1 9°].iu§,?gviews were all over the D B0? thwould adjust his attitude or le.sake of argument-with QUT¢|""D5° 9-l
urgess had man triends ndi erent spheres oi- fife. He tidr ii: but his behaviour was n .dis racefui in any sense of the woliri 'n to me. He was sent home fa lving offence: he was catliilli-_
0Lt.-Col. Lipton-did not reply to
the challenge of Mr. Phliby lastnight. but said: I prloipoe to make
a statement in the ouse." i
It is understood that Col. Lipton;
will seek the permission of the?
Speaker to make a personal stale-
ment. Such statements. bl? 1¢_92'B 01'
the Speaker, are made immediatelyafter questions in the House oi
_Commons. They are not debatable.
O.K."e-With Mr. Philby
When Mr. Philby was informed 0!
Col. Lipt0na dedision to make a
statement in the House he said:
I cannot comment further un'til
after the hon.;and gallant Me iber
f r Brixton has opened his tra ex-
c pt to say that I hope he w re-p at his charge and produce hise dance. or he shoul with aw.
E her way, it is absolutely .l':L
w h me."
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Q I i " J?Britain s,}tSpy Catchers Faee Probe
LONDON, Nov. 9 it?!-i-Britain's
super-secret sp;/catching espionageagency MI-5 will be investigated it-
self because oi the Burgess-Macbean
spy scandal. press reports said to , _ _ __day. . Attlee following Monday's Burgess ereign. Most are ministers_cif"Tof- N1'I11e_MiIn§|_uir:-' woulld be! the rst MacI..ean debate. mer ministers. Eden and Attlee 'SPICE - 53111011 egen arygr Up ' ' _ts... bciore ...5n..-gr World vi... "" " W ?fjfff§ffg°_ 8'21" '*"??? "°'=*°ii%*.°°i'?T"i?i°?-
It follows complaints that the Se 'Inlormed sources said Eden in-
formally gave further details 'ot the
proposed security investigation to
Socialist Opposition Leader Clementtion would be carried out by a six-
man committee 0! the Privy Coun~
cil, the body oi lawmakers desig
cret Service let ' omats Dona1d_ -a£dacLean and qt: __ Burgess escape .ehmtl the Iron urtain and failed ,-92to nd the "third man" who tipped . -M
them oil. I l , ' t
Primc Minister Anthony Eden this f ; ', - ,
week oticred. an investigation oi '
FOI'_QlJ1.I1_ Oliice security because of
the diplomats defection, but Eden
- made no mention of l92'lI-5-p1¬'SU1TJ--
ably because the agency is almost
never officially mentioned by the
British government.'1 .92 1'92_ J
Even the name nf the agency's
chiel has not been disclosed sincei
its post-war head, Sir Percy Sillit0e,|
retired two years ago. '
The address of MI-5's headquarter
ers in a downtown oifice building is
kept secret. its phone switchboards
are unlisted and its finances, like the
U. S. Central Intelligence Agency.
are not detailed even to Parliament.
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Times HeroldWash. News -7 .5/I
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INQUIRY
B!'0urPOLlTlCALCORltEiiPONUEN'I"
Informal contacts have taken
place between Bir Anti-i_on_v Eden
and Mr. Attlee on the constitu-
tion of the committee of Privy
Councillors to examine security
procedures in the public service.This investlation was proposedby the Prime inister in the debate
on the Burgess-Macleari aair onMonday. -
The proposal was discussed bv theSocialist Shadow Cabiriet last niirht.Tl-iei_r views will be lad before the
Parliamentary Labour partv to-day.
The Government's proposal eon-
templated a committee oi four.
These would be Sir Anthonv Eden.
as chairman. Mr. Macmillan.
Foreign Secretary. Mr. Attlee.
Leader 0! the Opposition. and Mr.
Morrison. Deputv Leader and I
former Foreign Secretary.
RESTRICTING MEMBERS!!!
I understand that the Sha
Cabinet decided to press for a c
mittee of six. which would incl _e
one member with _no previous ex _ 1-
ce of the working oi the security
0 ganisation. This would make the
. an more acceptable to the'rank-
d-le of the Labour party.
The Government's view is that
embership should be restricted to
ex-Ministers with experience of the
working of the security system. Two
arguments are advanced in supportof this:
11. It would be undesirable to widen
more than necessary the circle oithose with intimate knowledge of
the security organisation:
2. It would take enyone n_ot pre-
viously initiated_ some time to
grasp the intricacies of the organi-
sation and therefore slow up the- investigation. - r '
It the Government accepts sixus the size oi the committee it islikelfn that the Opposition wouldhorn ate_ Mr. Rubens. who as lor-Imer Minister of Labour was not
departmentallv concerned with "the
security services. He has been givenforeign a.fairs bv Mr. Attlee in hisal tion of dut es among SocialistF nt-benchers.he Governr1{iIent's choice wo idgr babl be ajor Lloyd-Geor e,e gecretary, who is c osely'c -
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BRITAINS ' counter-
espionage organisation
MI 5will be investi-
ted by the Committee
Privy Councillors that
is to be set up to examine
the efnclency or the
nations security system.
The Committee, proposed by
Sir Anthony Eden on Mon-
day. will probably consist
of six men: the Prime Min-
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92T 92ormeif-5 19551.onno1~s, '1:¥:f1Lminthree Opposition leaders,
Mr. Attlee, Mr. Morrison
and Mr. Alfred Robens.
The present c_hiet of M15 has
-I never "been named. He is
known oniy as Mr. X. And
MI 5's nctivities have never
been questioned since the De-
partment. was set up before the
rst world war.
Now, it is believed, Mr. X and
is predecessor, .Sir Percy
illitoe, will give evidence a.s
e committee probes all the
cts arising out or the
t eachery of Burgess and
aclean.RM:-.N' Mr. .
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c me out of hiding yesterday.
For a Iorinizht the world has
been knocking at his door
ever since Lieutenant-Colonel
__ Marcus Lipton named him in'
the House of Commons as 1
. third man in the story.
But for these two weeks Phiiby
has been either in his own
rambling country house at
Crowborough, Sussex, where he1 lives with his wile and ve
=_ children, or in his mother!
; Keneington fiat.
It was all over yesterday. Harold
Philby opened the door at his
i mother's 10-roomed fiat in
- Drayton-gardens. Kepsington.
Newspapermen, radio and TV
men. cameraman from many
countries trooped in.
Philby talked Ireely and answered
. questions without hesitation.
To some he had no oomment-
; "1 am bound by the Omciai
ii rets Act."
1 Challengedof
man who gured in that
-' ~{-I -at once challenged Marcus
ton. I su est he sai . D " rs ." d.
that Colonel Lipton should
repeat his charges outside the
Did Phiiby know the runaway
I diplomats? I hardly knew Maclean. I had
met him once or twice at the
beginning of the war."
But Burgess had stayed in his
house at Washington for six or
eight months.
I didn't know he was a Oom-
.munist although I had known
"him for 20 years."
Why bad Phiiby left the Foreign92 Oflice? A " ' '.
"I was asked for my resignationas a direct consequence 0! an
prudent association"
.Di he mean Burgess!-Yes.
Bu gem he said. DID drink a
1 Washington but his cond
hardly " disgraceful."
had been sent home for stu
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ident, Mr. Harold Phiiby,
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although his politics inclin
to the Left. he had never bee . _
a Communist- The last time I
spoke to a CommunLst. knowing
him to be a Communist was in .1
_ 19:14.".No. he wouldn't ask for his job
_ . Q back in the Foreign Otiice.
92 louse oi Commons.IEUT-COL. LIPTON said st
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For Full Maciean-Burgess Data
- The curiosity oi the British
- public. which apparently is
unable to learn the full truth
/ioncerning diplomats Donald
viaclean and Guy Burgess who
skipped to Russia when they
were-about to be arrested. may
be at least partially satised
by a prospective investigation
of the Senate Internal Security
Committee. i.
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Senator Eastland oi Missis-
sippi, is reported to have asked
the State Department for a
Juli report on the data it has
1 about the pair and the possi-
ibilities oi Maclean having di-
. vulged some secrets to the
4 I SSR. 1"
The investigators are not
" rticulariy interested in the
se oi Burgess and Maclean.
. hat interests them is that
Maclean was head of the
American section oi the For-
eign Orhce in the interval
between completion oi the
Chinese concentrations on the
Ys1u__B.iver_.cud._.their actual
mass intervention against the
-United Nations forces in Korea.
The committee wants to dis-
,cover whether there was a
denite agreement between the
United States and Britain to
consider Manchuria as a sanc-
tuary regardless oi the actions
of the Chinese Communists.
It such a decision was actually
taken by the American and
British governments. there is
no doubt that Maclean, a pol-
'icy adviser otllcial, must have
: known about it.
So iar_.the State Depart-
ment has reported that there
is nothing in its ies to in-
dicate the existence or an
agreement creating a "sanc-
tuary" 1'or the Chinese forces.
There had been apparentlychonand the pulverization of_
the North Korean forces pro-
viding that they would not
be pursued beyond the Yalu
River. This was fully under-
standable. Manchuria was at
that time a neutral territory.
Any attempt to follow the de-
feated North Koreans across
its boundaries would have
contravened international reg-
ulations and given the Chinese
legitimate grounds to join the
war.
It is true, the State Depart-
ment says, that on December
7. 1950. shortly after the rout
of our Bth Army, Prime Min-
ister Clement Attlee did come
hastily to Washington to nd
out from President Truman
what our intentions were re-
garding possible retaliation
airainst the Chinese Commu-
nists. And it is assumed that
he was assured that despite
the clamor of public opinion
in this country, no drastic
action, such as bombing oi
the Manchurian lines of com-
munications and military in-
stallations. was contemplated
without previous consultationswith the U. N. participants in /
the Korean campaign.
This thesis of the State De-
partment is not fully accepted
by the investigating committee
which would like to have lur-
ther research and study oi the
matter of who and what cre-
ated the Manchurian sanctu-
Er?-.;n
There has been some indi-
cation that interesting papers
on' they period between Novem-
ber 6 and 20. including an esti-
mate from the Central Intel-
ligence Agency. may be round
if diligent search is made at
the State Department.
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The Peiping high command
had begun to transfer its belt
trained troops from the south
to Manchuria in May. Late
that month precise informa-
tion to that effect was com-
municated to our Govemment
by the Chinese Nationalist in- -
telligence. This was largely
discounted as "Taipei propa-
ganda." Definite information
about the concentration of
three Communist route armies
along the Yalu River was. how-
ever. in possession of the Pen-
tagon sometime at the end of
September. The presence of
that imposing force worried
our eld commanders but the
thesis that this was merely in-
tended to protect Chinas neu--
trality was accepted by mili-
tary men and diplomats.
was the positive intelligen
that unusually large quantiti
of heavy military equipme -
were reaching Manchuria _tro
the USSR.
The Senate committee
would like to establish by doc-
uments and testimony of the
men in ofce at that time
whether, after those reports
reached Washington. any
agreement was made with our
British ally to prevent the
extension of the war by con-
sidering Manchuria as I.
"sanctuary." If such an agree-
ment was reached. could Mac-
lean have communicated it to
his Muscovite contacts in Lori'-
don? ..
Although the Chinese Com-
munists were ready Ior action '
early in October, they did not ;
strike until late in November. -
Dld they wait so long in order '
to ascertain whether America
would retaliate with its power-
ful Air Force against their
bases in Mulrden, -Kirin and <1
Harbin? And did they nd out 3
that an agreement not to-
punish the aggressor had been
reached by Washington andion eiteriaur landing at m- vene in the Korean cqnmer.-1"llaong__ g if .iE 2,, _,-.1 ' BEKUED F.r';'~Y SF-'1 Q9} ran; A Q f f _'_ __ .. /I 1 " 1 Q -' 'BY LET? JUN 2:2 |"IF{f. * /'
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the case for theiflrst time toi
accuse Col. Marcus Lipton!
Labor M. P., of a "sneak"atta.ck
while enjoying Parliamentary
privilege on the oor oi the
House oi Commons. The former
First $eeretary of the British
Embassy in Washington rwaa
cleared yesterday by Foreign
Secretary Harold Macltlillan in
Commons of being the tipo
num in the disappearance in
May, 1951. of Burgess and
Maclean. Foreign Oiilce diplo-
mats accused of beink Soviet
spies. . '
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Mr. Harold Philby. former
First Secretary at the British
Embassy in Washington. who;
.Wa.s mentioned by Mr. Macmi1~92
ian. Foreign Secretary. in the
.House of Commons yesterday in
relation to the Burgess and Mac-
lean investigation. is expected
this morning at his parents{home in Drayton Gardens. Ken-H
singbon.
' His mother. who is the wife of Mr.|Harry St. J. Philby. the explorer and
authority on Arabia. said last nightthat her son had been in touch withher, but she did not know where hewas staying. She did not know if helhaid been toid-"~ihat Mr.-Macmillan.had cleared him of the imputationlo! warning Burgess or Maclean.
Asked what she thou%ht oi Mr.'1Macm1llan's statement. s e replied:
"It is wonderful.
Mr. Harold Philby, who Joined theForeign Orifice in 1946. went toWas ngton in 1949. Burgess at one.time- Iodted with him there. InJune, 195 . the month after Burgssa cl Maclean disappeared, r.
P ilby returned to London.
e resigned the service in Se -
be ber of that year. He has be
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ITS LESSONS
HY has the Burgess-Mac an
case continued to excite public
concern! Not because it con-
forms in many respects to the
pattern of a. sensational novel-
ette. Not because any particular
interest attaches to the squalid
personalities concerned. The
truth is that the whole episode
administered a. very severe shock
to the reputation of the Foreign
Office. How could this eminent
Department ever have employed
such people? How could it have
continued to employ them after
very great numbers of people
knew their personal characters
to be what they were? is there
any guarantee that there are
no other Burgesses and Macleans
still unmasked? The whole
impression made by the story
has been that the Department
ose business it is to make ings
und other people is ila e to
ve rings made round itse 1'. _
* limp." H-inful." But -not the le
p iniul part of it is the way
has been handled by those W
felt the pain. Mr. Henmrr
Moamson. Foreign Secretary at
the time of the flight. stone-
walled. The White Paper pub-
lished two months ago read like
a masterpiece oi unintormative
irrelevance. But Mr. Macurtta
yesterday. was certainly wise
enough to change the tone of the
explanations, and to add proofs
01' a. reform oi the security
System. In so far as both the
tone and the substance oi otllcial
statements were better. the case
101' an inquiry, with due discre-
tion and without undue inhibi=
tions. becomes less urgent. But,
as the PRIME Mmrsrrn very
01 arly recognised, all anxiety is
n removed; and his suggesti n
oi a small all-party inquiry y
P vy Councillors well merits e
c sideration for which he ask d.
"" at an asMr. Mscnrttm rightly
ibed the whole business
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ml takes is that since an excep
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de andcd of persons in t
Foreign Service. what they
on duty is not ali*that mat-
ters. -The personal misbehaviour
or both these people was
notorious. Why should it have
been considered. in the case of
Mactam, irrelevant; o'r only as
relevant as, say. a liability to-
migraine? Thirty years a o,
there is little doubt. anybody 0
zuilty oi personal misbehavio r
would have been discharged.
without any soithearted or soft-
headed seeking for psychological
or physical explanations. They
would have rightly been judged
not the sort. of people whom
t e Foreign Oiilce could employ.
t it he noted that positive vet-
ti 1;. that is to say, inquiry to
p opIes background and ha ts.
...seems-only to date back u til
1952 -- more than six mon hs
utter the disappearance.
' 1» in 1 -
_ Nobody has explained why it
was not instituted earlier. There
is no McCarthyism about it at
all. For when Mr. MACMILLAN
argues that notorious personal
habits and indiscretions are
not compatible with spying,
surely he is thinking oi Iormer,
not oi present days. It is just
such things which subject the
persons concerned to blackmail.
They become open to pressure
to give information on pain oi
exposure and ruin. "Personal
behaviour should be more than
ever a. criterion or tness to be
emivyed in the Foreign service;
a M1ic1vm.r..m's speech as
at st reassuring for the 1 di-
cat n that it is now restore as
a er terion. ~'
1 0 - ar '
Q Iv.; 1. e public service. Lt that can e *1
fe ured, good will comm-e 01-It 0! Li .92 ;2" 92. -
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other weakness in the
For ign Olce case is the d lay
in iving the present expla a~
tion . _ They might have b en
given at any time after the
delinquents had bolted; and it is
at least satisfactory that the
inane conclusion of "the White
Paper--explanation might have
helped " the other side "--is now
abandoned. How they managed
to bolt is oi -little importance.
There is a great deal to be said
In accordance with the spirit of
British justice tor not clapping
people in eaol on suspicion. But
this does not excuse the failure to
relieve public anxiety earlier nor
t attempt to lull it. up t the
v ymoment oi the White? Def.
b asserting that Mscaaim ad
al ays performed his duties
" s tisiactorily." OI course. there
are still obscure Points. For
example. if Bunorss and Msctrm
were " tipped oil. who was
the tipper? One person, origi-
nally named in the House oi
Commons. was exonerated yes-
terday. But there really was no
reason why a great part of Mr.
MAOMILLAN'S speech, including
his references to Mrs. M.-.c1.1:m,
could not_have been delivered
months aG0- __ ' _ '
as ~ Ir it '
The Foreign Ofce will rec er
1 m this blow-for blow i is.
It would be grossly unfair 110.
t ink that a iew black sh
ake a ock oi goats; and .
al know the high quality I
ny in the Foreign Servi e.
Nor, as Mr. MACMILLAN rightly
contended. is there anything in
the new methods of recruitment
likely to lower the quality. We
are not asking for a_ "closed
shop." What we are asking. and
seem now to be settlns. 15 9-
system oi ensuring that shady
characters. ' whatever --; jth lr
uity. shall not be employed 11__ ' --».--
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. HAROLD MACMILLAN; the Foreign,5ecretary, told
. M.P.s debating the Maclean-Burgess case last night
900 Foreign ffiee officials have been checked for
rity since I95 -and as a result four have been
ed to leave a d six more have been moved -or have
resigned. " ; "
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last 10 years 59 oiciais have bee
retired for. incompetence.
S0, he said, the Foreign Ofce is not tboscd shop seeking to protect failures. A The new system or checks since 1951, he said--it'a plies to ail Government departments in whichi
security is involved- has enormously strengthened the i
security system. And he refused agenera1 inquiry ,into the Foreign Office. ' I '
-J, "iYMLL CUNPEH I
= Mr. Herbert Morrison appealed to the Prime
Minister to overrule this. There is a. case for an
inqun-y."he said, and inquiry there must be." . ' g' A_nd_then,,as the si':_c-hour ., debate ended, Sir .
- Anthony Eden proposed that e small conference '61::
Privy Couneil1ors"two or three from each side of the;House-should examine security in the public servioesiand decide whether further pr¬_C_'qi.u$192QIi§.'.[§i'iQF11d1~i,34§',:'taken to reduce the risk or treaohery.!i':£-we ~.'i;_
'1-he Prime Minister reiectedjhe idea. 01" an inquiryitbijudges. " Privy Councillors ar'e_!i924.P,s,",1ig.said, " andti s is a. question tor Periiain 1;, .».ri -i»- --~i '4 "*3a1d'1;m;g' the metho or5 . sitive vetting " erif cod---i ~ _. -1.
. . _sin "1951-they so into anjofii ials background sine his
schooidays-are disesfewbi
gut, 1nevi_Q.ble.___
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"That does,i?iot guarantee -
ainst future disaster." said
nthouy, " but it does give
rongeiit assurance that I
vet to this House that we h ...%ne all we thiiii: we can Iiitaill
i e law. The Premier then.100ked around i
him. putting away his notes:taking oi! his tortoiseshell glasses. Would the House like tie _liiwaltered 9 Would it agree that the
law should iliorr an" Bfltiliisubject to be detained on sus-~picion?- Some murmur: 0; "No. !
. a -- -,.-_JUs_rzc£: -
"_Wo'uld you be wi_llii'ig that.peoplrshou d be held .l1'ld¬lili.El_92iior the police while evidence
collected ? OI course not.
"British justice over thecenturies has been based on the.]!l'll'igg!lB that a man is to be bre-
movedin
sum innocent until he can be
guilty. I-lave we to aban-
don that principle? Worst of
ail, are we to make an exception
or political oilences ??The last thing I would w h
to see'in this country is te
Security service having the poii rto do some of tiie things will ll
some of ourliiencis in the Pressldo not seem to realise would ow
i in such s policy."nd Sir Anthony declared :_ I
ii: uld never be willing to he Pflllldl
ll 'ri.ister of a Gouermnerii wlticli;
n. ed those powers of this
H use.". __.- _. -__., .
~ -1'HIRD MAN in
In the debate _the three men
vrlio were Foreign S¬Cl' !l.8-T195
during the Maclean-Burgess case-~Mr. Morrison, Sir Anthony. and
Mr. Macmillan--told their versions
or the story. _ -But they still left. the big!-L651question unanswei'od: Win.was the Third Mon who tippedi
oi] the diplomats ? l
Mr. Macmillan said: " The
circumstances oi Macleans dis-3piJBB_-P8-RG6 were certainly eigilaiit abe in tl_ie terms of a. tpo . butit is quite possible that _o_the'r.icircumstances aroused suspicion.The authorities, he said. arestill investigating the possibility
oi a tip~ofI.1-low many people known; Mr.Herbert Morrison's decisioi B.5}iForeign Secretary on May 25. 1951.to in_v_estiggit_e Macleaii '? Mr.
Macmillan did not disclose.But Mr. Qiorrisoii himselfwidened the Q d by saying that0 that day--aid he diew att -
tin to the 7 oiii_cidence" _tIi t=
tl s was the very day the dip -I.
- m ts ed~the ,Sccurity Servi e
al. made a report to the oi e;
oi 92he Prime Minisiier. Mr. Atiiee.
""§|:i1'-* ,0-5.;left. 1.e.-e.__...i_.g92sg SUSPICIONHl92il_'._ Macmillan said th t
s spicion had been cast on officia s
ii Io knew of the decision. B tg icicigice by Vladimir Petrov. the' l dovie spy w 10 eserted in Aus-
tralia, lrimceted the flight lied been
p1E!I}I1EC£dWE11 eloiig théiltflbate. h 1'. aro yt e
former Foreign Oice man whowas named in the House byColonel Marcus liiton last mom]-|55 3- Ti°551blB ird ManMr.Mcmll an said :I have no ream: to conclute
be ayed 'the interests of is
co try, or to identity him wi h
thg so-called Third Man."li'9lil§]l1@ms Doug
REMAINS ;
MR, MACMILLANSspeech on the missing
diplomats is skiirul. In
parts it is_ also reassuring.
The checks on aspirants for
the Foreign Service and
on its members appear to
h av e b e e n_ immensely
They may well have
reached the point where, as
Mr. Macmillan contends,
the gaps in security have
been plugged as tightly as
they ever can be in 2. Ire-e
untry. ' l
- But all these ch ks
pend on the efcienc of
t e security service. '
And there Mr. Macmillarrs
account is n'ot so satisfa.c=
.i><>rY- th t Mr. Phllby has at any more
92 ..l
strengthened. . II
ls fhis efficiency? .
ACCORDING to Mr.
Macmillan, who com-
mends 'and congratulates
the security service, Maclean
was spotted out or a eld
of 6.000. But nothing like
that number can have
handled the parhculgr
information itound to have
leaked. E
And anyway, the case
built up against him was
not made solid enough tor.
..+i,. Mnnnfim Buttress n YI , '¢1|924I|l92J-ll: 01-lug--.. ---__-' -_ ._-_, _ _ _ '
.13 missed altogether.
It further appears
acleans house could
e en be watched for tea
arousing suspicion.at
ot
of
92.he public demands f
OBODY wishes to?
damage natio al
plestige by belittllhg
British security. But whati
evidence is oered- or its
increased efficiency ? _____192_/lr,
Macmiila'fi""mérel.y admits
that the Third Mari has not
been round and is still being
sought.
Sir Anthony Eden
proposes an informal
gathering 01 Privy
uouncillors to have a
general look-rou nd ati
security matters. It doesi
the Government credit, to
yield thus to public opinion.
But nothing so
half--hearted will restore
condence either at home
r abroad. The only way to
0 that is to" hold a
orough inquiry.
The public will
demand it.
ill
iuncllons apart irorn rcporittts on the incl-Uruon of Soviet Socialist Republics
shed to visit or return tg_tlt£J1rttt.ed-ingdom.
MR. TUR'ION.I-lcr Ma}esty's Govern-nt have noted with satisfaction that sinceriiairient rose for the recess last July a_al of 54 British-born worrtcn in_ sate lite
untries have been granted permission toavel to this country. Of these, _6l areom Poland, l9 from Czechoslovakia. and .
o from both Hungary and Rttmartta.either by Foreign Olliee spnltesnten or by
OBSERVERS ON ISRAEL
BORDER
MORE IF NEEDED
MR. ARTHUR HENDERSON Rowlcytegis and Tipton, Lab.!_ asked the S_ecre- 1ary of State for Foreign A_lTairs 1f_ hevould state the niiniber of United Nationsibservers stationed along the borders 9!srael and Egypt and whether he wouldnstruet her M3}¢5lF s Governments 1'=P1'°-entative on the Security Council to proposebat this number should be increased.MR. MACMlLLAN.The _!tumber ofUnited Nations observers stationed along.he Israel-Egypt_border__ls nortuallll P-y °livhom ve are rri tne tgaza area one iv-Ifin the El Ania area, with three in reservewho can be called upon at _short notice.Another three are temporarily d¢_1a¢l_1°dfrom the truce supervision orB"11,m1lQ"imirlquai-tors it-i_J_erusalern for service inthe area. The Minister o_I Stale on Novem-ber 4 iniorrtted the Chief O_f_5la °f .lh°United Nations tguce_su&erv1sicin 092'B3"'l1'lion that her Majesty s overnment wouldsupport any request he mlhl 1'l<¢ _l°1'additional stat! if he felt more observers
were required. - es
MR. GODFREY NICHOLSON Fam-iarn C.! asked it the observers had_an_l'
tents when they took p1ace_? Did_ it notti-ing the United Nations _tnto elisrcpute" en the general rmpressrort was that
the task or the Observers vi-as to prevent
icidents IMR. MACMILLAN said he did notgree. General Burns had done most valu-
hle work which had reduced to mat-ragesble roportioris-until now-what mighttave geen serious events and it was hopedt 'll|'l COUHITICS. I ' Hlturui mitt utriet---., ._- .,, ,, ___ _ ,_,IR. M_A_CMILLAt~_l.-- Prtie niiiatiiii [Ylalhl of ttiei-e two men and ril the strange inci-w_as discussed with the State Depart nis that surrounded this drama. H _.t in _Se|'ttember and they were warner lie l-tad seen it large number ol criticisms:ur_vie92v_ that Saudi conduct had rrtadt if the White Paper in the Press and else-o_rittrirtatton_ of _arl:lt_i-ation virtually .tn_1- t where. lt had been said that security tn thelittle. Her Mll¢_592Y s Government _d_id Foreign Office ought to be in the hands ofgive the United States l_l-|.ll'92O!'lllCS: the security service.ance information of the decision that t lt was true they Foreign Oiee oll'ieials_
rulers concerned should resume control and this was 'true inother departments.-11° ll'"- lll _il1¢|1 l°r=l10_v§'l9d_sh0u1d were amateurs in the sense that they did notve embarrassing to them-in t ir rela-N spend their wholer careers upon this ob.is with saiidi_ Arabia. Besides their Nevertheless, this had a correspondingirests in Saudi Arabia, American oil advantage, for it meant that an increasingtipariies are st_tbsta_nii_a_l shareholders in , number oi olcers in the service both Itcom1gantes that noio the concessions home and abroad iaioed .-o..-tee experience
the metal States and for Muscat and of security work. -.
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R MONTGOMERY urns taeitttt. "i1i§i.e°5..r='iZ'<.-l§".ii .?i5=?t9..i'iP .i.'i."2.. ..;"lb UU! I*li°d lh lh 5¢¢"¢l=1T!' OT ody wlierever he went and Wllilllvtr hfIt; lof Foreign Mlalrs it he would make did high Ind low, should he followedaternertt about the increased facilities by M gppropl-13]; Qfcgf 9| 3 policetch had been ggantcd by the Soviet Gov dcpanicnymerit to Brtlis tourists wishing to vtltt IMPKHENT Cnrncs
R TURTON -The Soviet State All through the criticisms whteh hadavel Agency lntourtst, have recently been rnadeand he did not complain ofred a nutnber of planned tours for therri-he had felt a sense of irnnaiiericetisn visitors to me oovict union neat ""1! 20'0" 9' ! l"'°¢I'-llI0ll'!' lilfld hidr, which include concessions on the cost not been taken when it rnurht stilt havetravel within the Soviet Union British been tllllv Bl-ll 11¢ lhllhl "2"" °lel agencies are discussing these pro "1=5° °°"'olaii-its were based on a mtsaprtfe<3]; with lntourtst While this is wel hensiori of the rights of a citizen in a free
c, there remain many obstacles in the society in times of peace'r U n t the would he privgte Action against entrtloyecs, whether of i_e nt n o _ _ _ _rist. narticularly the articial rate of rh State _ or anybody else, arisingor - - -' as is-can nrfhang; for the roub|e_ r-iroin auspieitni an-e_ it t ..._He added that the rate of exchange was lo-uaht _ b lllill Willi $004 motives-ting discussed at the Geneva conlerence. ,,"_lt miglit_ avert serious_ consequencesMR_ RAYMOND ; !wER nan;-_ C_! -or even disasters. But, jtidging from whatked hc Sec-c|afy Bf 531,3 for pm-cg n =had hapitened in some other countries, heairs whether he had an further staFt:- sttezeste that the ttracttee won deserts,-nt to make regarding the British-born ""5 " ° ll ?§""£°° °" °5 P"5°"*l "'°"'vcs of citizens oi Czechoslovakia site t~d="35"'l0l3P°5|"°" sheets!-qr n treneralher eastern European countries who i95°."" °l ¥"'""Y- ll" in ,""° "am °i- - - ' _|:iubhe_sa!etv. "--lt had hccri said that statement; made
Ministers during all these years bad been
disingenuous and obscure.
Happily there was very little experience
of this sort of thing in Britain, and sue-
cessive Ministers had not found it easy to
titrilre just the right balance between sayingtoo little and saying too much. But he was
sure they had all been inuenced by one
overriding consideration. The disappear-gitiice of the two riicri had opened up a largenew eld of investigation for the security' "' ' "'" ""' "onttn ~" forr§Ct92'lCB. IIICSG iqliitjcs stair 92.a uvuseveral year-_s#,, At any stage while they werein"h'rogrEss a suggestion o[ a full statement
would have indicated to the world the realdegree to which they were rnccting with
success. and consequently the investigationlmighl have been itself comprontised.
When Maclean and Burgess fled in M_ay1951, the first thought of those responsiblehad to be not how much they could leithe public but what they could do to minitrnize the harm that had been done. Cheers'|The_ security service still had intensivtuncliuiries to snake, and those would hi-iva uable not merely to reconstruct thistory but {or other and more essetttiapurposes; but when Pcrrov defected oi
April 3, 1954, a whole new vista openct
on the case.Petrov let it be known that if, a
SO0l_l as he said anything to the Anstralian security and intelligence organizetron, it_92yas _to be published in this couiitr
he would refuse to say anything rnore. 'iiiii was an important point. Since it was esser
tial that Petrov should give his evidencbefore the royal commission it was decidenot to malre any further annoiirtcenirnt beating on his testimony. The commission
report became public on September i-4, rii-i1 it then. became possible to answer questior
ie Far Eastern depart- iOFRII? in that depart~ i- ma e_ that during a -l, late tit l94_9. he ad
_"iul indiscretion about ._he_ charges were fullyiseiplinary board; he '
indetl; and informed ..insferred and that hisomotion' Mould abe
e decided to ' rid H
ti for a perl 2 otliiirlt. There ha er} o aving been gut. lie was promoted. hat ,
inined, as he had" been
cot. _a mem t of the- ]92lIll0| branch of the
Burgess was a failure.
reported tinlavoiirsbly: work and behaviour
l. l9$l, four years afterand nine months alter i
it Washington, he was
__oneltision reached that
leave the aeriiice. Until ,
sappearance there were .
-ect that he was worltin ,r of the State. He hag
.it then indiscretion wag,
:l1&llClCHSUC of it secret .
ntion ii further point. int;l~{eil. He had observedltrtralor, A Pei C]-sitt;ted that he hmitarnedit Burgess when he be-
assistant. He Mr. Mac--orrs'_ about the tlmln oi i-elation. Hear. heat-3' '
3 TO RUSSIA i
STIGATED
FOR EVIDENCE
had said enough to show
.ii not ir_iie thai_ i-he two
ed by senior ofiicials.149, a report was received
sh information had become
let atithoritiefi few years
as no indication of how it
;lable. The leak might not
from British sources. Dili-cre_ begun immediately, butsibilities to be covered wasti
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ilted to the Soviet Govem-I
~. but it was an almost in-
ski1l-atid, wen the magni-e
paucity of the information
at the eld was gradually
'1 in the course of two years,iiown at all-he could no
it. the breadth oi the nossibl
~--and that the right one. ' ' cl d W lie stisfiiciori narrowe o_ rtin the evidence was both
-if eirctimstantial. The be
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could be used to support
lay in_obtaining admissionsit there was no rm_ siartin' ' . d¢"1
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-in the United s mii;tit be uii .tiaa ' .ctornedftooktng bat they wondered if.ls "1 *0 ho lzceakdown in CiIl'd'ltt"T950IAlthough the Ctl'CuIl_lSl&l'-C_S"Of the dla-ppeariirice were eitplairiablc in terms of ap-o._it was quite possible that Macleaa 'ed with Burgess because one or otherpriced circumstances or ii combination ofI_rt;t-Itttallttccs which aroused their sus-ictons. The piossibillt of it tip-off had togo seriously considered, and searching and£|'°"l¢l¢d 1l'9292'¢5i-B3-lllls into the possibility
Pad been undertaken and were now
roceeding.
MR. H. A. R. PHILBY
ionod in the House, but not outside init connexion He was Mr. I-l A R.hliby. temporary First Secretary to thertttsh Embassy in Washington from Octo-er. I949 to June, 195i who had beenrivy to much of the investigation of the
akage He had been friends with Burgessoni_tl_ieir time as fellow under raduates
n Trinity College, Cambridge. an Burgesswas accommodated at his home in Washing-ion from Aufust, 1950, to April, 1951. twould be rea imed that at no time before he_Tlie name of one man had been men-
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grid was Burgess under suspicion. It haden _foi_.tnd that Mr. Philby had Communistassociations before and a_ter his universitydays, and he was asked in 1951 to resign
[tom the Foreign Office , -Mr Philby had been ll'92P' bl¢ d'
f it
CIound that he was responsible f_or wBurgess and Maclean. '92iVl'iile_ ininent service he carried out his dutind conlsei!entir;usly.b 11%-re! was no! oncuetat a,aaiilgti-:3-ed the interesets oi Britain, or toidentify him with the so-called third man,
' there was one.1 As regard others whose names had beenassociated with the aair, he hid pausedthem to be carefully studied and investi-ga92:d_ No one was being shielded. 1-ladany evidence of guilt been forthcominghe, or his redecessora, would not havehesitated to list-c taken appropriate action.No such evidence had been found.A number of Foreign Service oicera whohad been either oice cotleaztlt 01 hidassociated outside with Burfgess were exam-. ined but nothin had been ourid. ll anyonei inside or outsits the House could JiroduceC92li'!it1C¢;tG trused it would be ma e avail-
a e to e aut orities.
MR. HERBERT MORRISON l-ewisham, South, Lab.!.-it is said in a news-paper that Mr. Philby and his family have di5,flp¢&t'¢'d_ Docs the Minister regard thatas Slgltiflanl in the circumstances of the case
MR. MACMILLAN.»-i have no reasoni to think they have left this coiiiiir!- 1
think it is very improbable.Mrs. Maclean had been or little import-ance. Anythin she knew before Macleiinr lett she must liave got lrom him, and she had no means of obtaining information, alter he left. Whetlter she remained iniBrlll92ll'92 or leit rttadc little difference. Sliccould do no in-incl in this country and
little harm abroad.
CLOSER _scRuTiiuyW
i 'The neat question was what steps were
taken in ensure that there should be no ttsis {or questi litrti.is therefore put om iim.
to watch hint at his home
deliberately taken, alter a car
nlvcd in keeping him und
in the ncighbourliood ofinclusion was that the risk th
EQIRIES CONTINUING
ti: of Fuchs. the security serviialte exactly the same risk a
istilied in the result.-~t oi the watch on MacleThe
31
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-id been made of the technicalC
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out on his guard would be too
co
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t
lli repetition of siicli a deplorable story. Since
i I945 a check had regularly been made onall new entrants into the Foreitt Service
i and on all new temporary emp oyees.That check was made to ensure that no
adverse security record was held againstcandidates for employment. Since I945 all
officers already employed had been sochecked. but it was acknowledged that that
check was not atlequiite--what was called, the negative chcclt-since it only revealed.. persons who had already come. to the un-i avoui-able notice of the security 8.t.tl.l'l0tl-tics When applied to Maclcan and Bur-i
. l
U r""t'-u-"r---is r'r92r}_l_§|;§ qr 50I'M! gc-..-i it revealed nothing about the 5l1lJ92"C|'SlV"" '---- »r-==»=-=~'i-is-ts. Of .._ll1eit; _da_ys.
r< sir. .tot=ot=t=1c"1it'i;s?§i~i0vi_at>~_:~..=.:l~
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..."92e_'_,;- s ? t .THE "rnvtcs TUESDAY NOVEMBER /71955 ' I ,7- ---.____
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. - ' Parliament '
ti
SIR A. EDEN ACCEPTS INQUIRY
BY PRIVY COUNCILLORS .
HOUSE OF CONIMONS
_ Moi-initv, Nov. 7The Sicilian took the Chair at hall past
two o'clock.
FALKLAND DEPENDENCIES
MR. JOHN HALL W eombe. C.! andWING cutott. iziuc riultus Qwtmblcy,North, C.! asked the--Secretary of Slatefor Foreign Affairs it he wood make astatement about the dispute of this countryWith Chile and the Argentine in the Falk-
.land Island Dependencies.E MR. TU_RTON, Under Secretary. Iforeig-ntice thirst and Malian C.!, said thatgboth the rfirfentine and Chilean Govern-~. menu had in oriiied the lrttcrrtational Courtor Justice that they were unwilling toaccept the jurisdiction of the court in{B§:l£d_10 IE1!-l§ll' claims to kourbgniaregce tortes. I5 tie was ta on ore echange of regime £1 Argentina, but there.92vas t1t't[0rtt1rtate_ly as yet no sign that thepresent Al'5_¬|'lll.tlG Government intendedto adopt a_ ierent_attitude. ln a statementat the United -Nations General Assemblyon October 3, the Argentine delegate re-peated in general terms the ArgentineGovernments claims irrtlie Antarctic.
- BURAIMI ACTION
JUSTIFIED
MONEY AND DOCUMENTSMR. MACMILLAN Secretary of Statefor Foreign Affairs liromley, Ck in astatement_about oonditions in the urairniOasis, said that since the Ruler of AbuDhabi and the Sultan of Muscat reasserted_tbeir rights on October 26 the situationl there had beonpompletely cgiiet and normal.Alter referring to the rime Minister'si statement on that day that the actions and
conduct or the Saudi Arabian GovernmentJ amounted to I repudiation of the Arbitra-tion ftgrceinent, he went on:- . .. _Tl1ts conclusion was based partly on thewidespread corruption and bribery whichhad taken place amon the inhabitants of, the disputed area and had clearly renderedi anygcnuine expression of their wishes ini-'PS5lb!0, and partly upon the attitude olthe Saudi Government towards the tribunalitself. tir position has been fully Jtllllltd,i by the vidcnce obtained as it result oi there~en!ry~ of the forces oi the Ruler oi Abu, Dlial:§'t,§t1r92d the Sultan of Muscat intoBurairni. in the first place, a large sumof mono! was found in the possession ofthe San l police detactirncnt there, far inii eacesa of anything that could have beenrequired for the maintenance of this smalli post. Ibis sum of money is being returnedto the Saudi Government. Secondly, mafia, documents came into_our possession whicl gave ample conrmation of the charges we
l ave made.
MR. GRIMOND {Orkney and_Zetland,L.!.--As it is apparent that on this matterwe have an absolutely cast iron case,_ andwe are at last standing up for our friends' - 1!ii=-!..t<t.':!Zl.I!f, th_§__world. will the Foreign" ""' ' """*"-92---1--seer.-x.._.gl!ly~ - -:+;_;':- is; W .~: _ ~_ we _ .*:;, 1:; :;;;;;j - :1 ; t c _~ T _ti Eivs'UR1No SECURITY IN at 'i N
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ithese incidents which bad actually beenobserved. Should not the number 0 obscr- vers be increased so that they could observewhat was going on in advance?MR. MACMILLAN said_it would bet
best to let General Burns decide how irtiiriy
observers be needed.
ARTIFICIAL RAIN i
MR. GEORGE WARD, Under-Secretaryof Stale tor Air, in it written reply, states:- tSome experiments in cloud seeding: have irecently been canted out from R.A. . air-craft tiring normal cloud flying training.The experiments were controlled by theMeteorological Ofee and liave_t_llten placeover an area where titty positive resultsmight have it practical 1 well as an eiiperi- lmental value. _lt is not yet possible to saywhether any stgnicantiincrease in ratrtt t
can be sch eved.
BACKGROUND T0
TREACHERY t
CLASHING IDEOLOGIES .
On the motion for the adjottmrnent,
MR. MACMILLAN initiated a debateon the disappearance oi Burgess and
Maclean. _ _He said that it could rarely _havehapgnetl in the long Parliamentary historyof ritain that the political head ot Idepartment should have had to unfold to the House so gainful a stoisy as that which it
was their uty to cons er. _To understand, without eiicusing, that.story it was necessary _to recall the back-ground in the 1930: in which the twoprincipal characters grew up. At that timeviolent opinions were being _cXpfc55c_d withthe Spanish civil war dividing British andEuropean opinions acutely. This had it par- ticularly disturbing effect on yotingdpeotilc.many of whom thought i_t their utv tottake part in those revolutionary _sl1'92IE§l¢_$- iWhen Hitler signed his pact with Stalinand the last war began _some_ of thosewho had espoused _eittreroist views foundtheir ideological beliefs eiterted it strongerpull than their patriotism. When the warended the clash of loyalties, which badbeen buried in l94l, was revived.Thus it was that men could he found in tBritain who could put the interests nf~another oouniri before their own. and corn-mit the horrible crime of treachery. This,ooctii-red not only among criminals andC|t_.gCtlCI'Bl.CS, but in men holding hiith tc_ch-nical and scientic posts, in men of ghilo- lsophic and literar attairiments, and nally in the Foreign get-vice. Many who hadseen that service at work at_home andiabroad would agree that Britain was for-tunate to have a service of the highestquality, giving most loyal and devotedservice to the Crown and the nation. That l
t
_+
Foreign Service regarded the severe blowa ainst its reputation as a personal case,.w%iich had caused a profound shock _lU|lP3l'!li!-l"l'l¬1ll. and the general public-- Criesof Hear, hear."!--at home and abroad. rs1iit;is'ittf_g5' _;_t_§_S_gQrilStBll..l'lY Ian eitcepnonally good report, in which nomention was made of his lett-wing views.ll the board had known that he hadl routine worMlfllt. While he-merit alle atioiprcssed Communist sympathies as an l ofeavfeundergraduate in those days, would theHouse have felt that such a man shouldautontaticalls be eiteluded from the iblieservice 9 t poosittoti members: " o. !Surely it would have regarded those lean-in 5 as one oi the aberrations oi youth,which he rni ht have been eiipected to livedown, lgllllf.! It was not lair in indir-ing it man to bring in the atmosphere Ofto-day when judging the events at the 1930:,It was important to realize that untiland after Miiclean s aoootnmwt "I cl"'°in 1943 the quality of his work was notonly good but Ot1_tSll1'l-dtt'tl among hiscontemporaries. _Durir92g the l'tnt_1-ll 3'!-IIIin the service his con uct gave rise to noadverse comment. Hts behaviour tn _Cai_ro.which culminated in a sudden applicationfor sick, leave, was at the time interpretedas the result of _s prolonged period of
overwork and strain.
SECOND CHANCE
He was regarded as it valuable memberof the service, and there was every reasonto su pose and to hope that he might makea fut? recovery from what appeared to bee sort of nervous breakdown. and theForeign_ Office, like any other decent em-ployer in the cireurnstances-a_t the timethere was no 5t.i5[ltClOtl IS to hlS_lOiyIlly-'tried to see he had the right riedica treat-
ment and a chance of recovery.
ledge that the decision was wrong. Pcrliasit waa. It was easy to be wiseafter eevent. but he was ivert a second chanceand, at the end of live rnonhs medicaltreatment, he was put at the bead of the
American department. _ _The appointment implied no promotionfor him and provided an ootortunity I9watch his conduct and his heath. At thistime no suspicion rest on htn_._ _- As_soon as he fell ti der stisgcioii,__p__vi_1icl-iwas in the_middlc_o[ April, d 5l,_ oiieojthose informed was Si Roger ldalttns, nowour distinguished an l'llhl% successfulAmbassador in Wash ngiori. e was thenMaclean's _i'n'tmediat chief, being thesiiperiniendtrig Under- retary of the group
in which the department cane. It was,therefore, quite untrue, as _ha been sug-gested, that Sir Roger Maltttis was in anyway responsible for the conduct of aninquiry or had checked or cleared Maclean.That was not the case, and such a sug-gestion was false and grossly unfair to
Sir Rogcn Maltins.
BURGESSS RECORD
Burgesss career in the Foreign $ervicewas totally different. He was taken on asa tempal? Press qicer in the news dc-partment o the Foreign Oilice, then housedto the Ministry of lniormaiion, in 19-t4.His previous career, to the extent thenknown, have what seemed to be I. respect-
able background. . _In I945 he toolt advantage of the oppor-tunity open to temporary oflicers to applyfor establishment in the junior branch oithe_Foreigo Service. He appeared before tiCivil Service board, wlioduly recommendedhirn for establishment. In fairness to theboard, they were impressed by his excellentacademic record, as well as by the goodreports they had received covering his em-pto rnent in the B.B.C. and iii "the ForeignOfhyce news department. However. theirnow knew that Burgcss's work while witha wartime department responsible for propa-ganda to neutral" countries had been,
92l53tiSf3Clpl?. _It was un ortunately the case that durinsl
lthe wararid perhaps one could hardlytiwondei at tt--many war departments didl,'not keep ood records about their tem-porary staff. The fact remained that neitherthe Foreign Office nor the Civil Servicecommission knew or Burr.=5§'= h i §%$ SEVERE REPRIMAND sh dTh s b which he was estal-ii e .5a?' _niL,oeiout.194T-
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Mr. Sizoo .+.....__
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Miss Gandy _.....___
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Wash. Stu: ...._...._.___
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Daily Worket_............_._
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THE TIMES TUESDAYuov§'.ma3:n_a, 1955. 092
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.oxFoi2o ADOPTS
t _ ROAD PLAN
I ctaspi OF VIEWS
. ._1i~n COUNCIL
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MAYORS WARNING OF
n/[MI
I 92J92-IL:-I'll1 mom ouit SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT _ OXFORD, Nov. 7 i
1 After ve and a quarter hours of
ldebate, Oxford City Council to-night
t adopted by.32 votes to 24 the recommen-
dations of the general purposes cornmit- i tee for two inner relief roadsone to the l
south of the High and the other to the .
north. This means that the proposals
,will now go forward to Mr. Sandys,
Minister of Housing and Local Govern-
';n1ent, as an amendment to the Oxfordhdevelopment plan., The committees recommendations repre-
"isent the compromise that emerged from thegrdiscussions held here last month by liflr.
-.gSiindys, who for two days was closeted with
__eig_ht representatives _of the city council, as
well as university delegates and spokesmen iiior other local bodtes._ _ t- The voting gures give an accurate idea
of the diercnce of opinion that still divided
the cotiitciland divided it along neither
party lines nor the line between Town and
Oown. Tolthe verydend of to.-dayls debatemore ~.-.-ere £..:t"'u£nt i-.-ve-rates o. ot..er routesLlltil the relic? roads might take. The taskof_ defending the Frtcrgl purposes com-imitiees proposals cll almost entirely on i
Qtlte Lahourwiayor,-Councillor M. A. Lower.
- _ MAYOIPS INTERVENTION i
I In fact. Mr. Lower's was a personal
,___t.'it:rn:'th over the opposition. At one point .an amendment was not merely on the brink .
-fol $UCCCCdlflg§ it seemed actually to have
. succeeded. 'lhere were 29 votes for it and
18 against. Then, acting on a dramatic im-
Dulsc, t-he mavor shot up a hand to make the
.voiing equal, and quickly declared the
-amendment lost,
Earlier he left the council in no doubt of
the motive undcrlyingilte decision. He had
iP3'. .*- ."av.-r-. .Fl- ...'-I
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- . wan, v -
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_.? ~ .-;1 .i to-day in__a _2l0,000 stones catch, could not
- ,_ I be solcfbccause the market was gliitted. The
4' ' , lover until t{.46 I , . . .-1
' I
y _oitiivisav, Nov. 1"'.~ ., ',' f- . Icelandic sh, which has been banned byBOATS at-to WORKERS
LEAVE EAST coast _ _
FROM it coaaizseouoenr _ -"' '
LOWESTOFT, Nov. 7
With no herrings to handle people in ,
the fishing industry at Yarmouih and
Lowestoft are trying to remember when
they last had a season so disastrous as
the present one. There have been times
when the herrings were late, when quality
was p00!'., when too plentiful supplies
stopped shing; but none can recall a
time of virtually no herrtngs. '
This morning four boats came to ,
Lowcstofi with 97 crai-is, and two to
Yarmouth, with S7 cram. Over the week-
end a score of Scottish drifters folded up:
their nets and ended the season. To-night ithe remainder are at sea. many with thel
intention of seein whether results willjustify a further egrt; if not better pros-
pects in the Scottish waters may draw them
to white shing, or to the west coast. where
good herring catches are reported.
CATCHES COMPARED
As I1} of the 232 boats shing are visitors. i
the decision will be of prime importance to
Yarmouth and Lowestoft. At Yttrmouth, .
up to Saturday, only 41,000 crans had been l
landed for the season, compared with 125.000
to the same date a year ago. The first handvalue of the catch alread__t;_shows a decit of
£232,000 on last year. 0 the end of last
week only 4,650 crans oi herrings had been
cured into barrels at Yarn-iouth. against
37,840 crans last year in which the season
closed with requirements unfullled.Already some of the fishworkers like theboats, are on their way north. They getils. 2d. for each barrel packed, in addition to
the weekly wage of £3, and for them the pros-
pect is grim. A task for the curers is tond storage until next year of scores of
thousands of barrels whic lie empty. _
'lhc_ncws from Holland is that the herrings
cannot be located, except by those shermen 1
who have changed from drift-net shing to
trawling in the spawning area in the English ,
Channel. Here n inonth earlier than usual I
l00 trawlers of many nations are at w_0l'k.
It is from this area that the best drifter
catches have come to East Anglia over the!
weekend, but trawlers and drifters cannot 1,
sh with safety on the same grounds, and ;,
damage has already been reported. 1
SURFEIT AT HULL .,i
FROM OUR coitnzsr-oitniitvr '
HULL, Nov. 7
About 40000 stones of sh landed here
bulk of the catch was cod. The ianiiirie Wu
almost as much as the port can handle and
the catches of three trawlers had to be held
o-morrow Tuesday!. I
BOXED FISH ORDERED i
FROM ICELAND
__ FROM ouit CORRESPONDENTPEl? "-TRY
Cult/IMITTAL .
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POLICE DENIAL ' OF
FAVOURITISM
Divisional Detective-superintendent
Herbert Sparks denied in cross-examinm
tion at Guildhall, London, yesterday that
evidence which he gave about an inter-
view with Christopher Glinski was an
invention. The superintendent was
replying to Mr. Norman Beach, solicitor
for Glinslci, who was committed for trial,
charged tinder the Perjury Act with
giving false evidence at the trial of Jack
Comer at the Central Criminal Court.
Glinski, aged 34, of Burwood Place, Pad-
din ion, is alleged to have iven falseevidence when lie said that he did not know
where Comer lived, that he had never found
out where Center lived, and that he did notllriow if-llydefark Mansions, where Corneri BS 8 all
l-lc_ was committed for trial at the Central
Criminal Court. Through Mr. _Beach hepleaded hlot Guilty and reserved his defence.e Ma sirate, Alderman Frederick Hoarc,refused hail. An application for legal aid
was granted.
I NEVER TALKED "Suggintendent Spark; said that onOcto 1 he saw Gliriski at West End
Central--police station and said to-him; '1 S
have had you brought here as I suspect youwe.re_cortoerned with Mrs. Comer, Moishaand bonny and the _Rcv. Andrews and othersin conspiring to g|ve_false evidence at theComer trial. Glinski replied: Look, the
trial is over. We have had advice and
know you cannot do anything about it. lnever talked about the evidence to the grsori
and nobody can prove I did. Habby istle-
man was at Comer's at and he must have
been talking about me. I will do him. It
must be him, because he is the only one whoknows about me going to Comer's at."
The oicer ad ed that Glinski said he
would not take part in an identicationparade. Replying to Mr. E, J. P. Cussen,or the prosecution. Superintendent Sparkssaid that Mrs. Srnyth {v-'..o gave evidence on
Friday! was brought into the chargeroomand immediately identied Glinski_ On
October 27, when charged, Glinski said: Whhat I said at the Old Bailey was the
trut ."
Mr. Beach: I put it to you that he has
always said t.his,"on g_very occasion he hasbeen seen by other otncers and you ?-No,
511. tI t it to you that the evidence whichyou hgve given in this court about the alleged
interview on October 7 of the words you
have said Glinslti said are untrue-an in-
vention l-Nonsense, sir, quite true.
REFER ON QHALLENGES
Further questioned by Mr. Beach, Super-
inleridenj Sparks agreed that it was not therst time his evidence had been challengedin a court of law. Asked if it had been re-qucntly challenged, he replied: Yes, sir."
Continuing is cross-examination, Mr.
Beach referred to the prosecution of Comer
and of Albert Dimes, who, like Comer, was
acquitted on a charge of wounding. Mr.
Beach asked Superintendent Sparks: From
the outset of that case ou were favourableto Dimes, weren't you if" The superinten-WEI
PA
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F01
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Mr. Will I
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the union, bu
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SH MINERS , TIMBER IN N13,... FLAl92il4bt S t'ulst.lt;v DEMAND 0' i F 92EST HOUSE Pnfastam
iROUS ACTION "
{ EXTRA 30$.
OUR CCRRESPONDENT
CA_Rl_!lFF, NOV. 7
at a conference represent-
iembers of the Still! Will!!!National Unic! ",bf Mine--ted all resolulio Cardiff
_¢ for riot less than Gs. more
.lgCS. _
.iion demanded vigorous
" attacks rnade upon the
.ls of working people _by th_e
.ict'ti's interim Budget 1i_I92D05l-»o urjged the consolidation of
the ive-day week agreement.liate national conference tor-nal campaign in_ support ofiand and the__full imp ementa-
:-crs' charte.r.""-
L FORCAMPAIGN
.ori said that miners " cannot
-intinuation of the penalty of
!s' wages for losing one_shifts-tkcd the area ¢!t¬Ct21Ivc to
ipaign of meetings and demon-
ppori. of the immediate claims.-her reforms included in the
especially the 4Q-hour weekn. i '
..l that the conference _wouldtwo months time to review the
to decide the steps to be under-
crent of the wage claims not
i_yl'llIEI, area president, said the
is twice the amount decided
years annual conference of. added: Circumstances have
. then."
charter recently adiieci by
committee of the ational
lineworkers consists of four
!lCllOft in hours of work, three
ioliday a ycar__instead o_t_lt_vo,rig sickness, and consolidationnus " shift. Under Erescnt
every miner who wer.-s five
is paid for six, but if he misses
,>aid only for those he worked.
-lTlNG WAGES
92RGAlNING
i CHANGE POLICY
ouit utaoua ILEPORTER
-te change of wages policy
its in the printing industryrd the British Federation of
nters with an urgent and
I-ilem.
tt ve years the only general
-; received by members of these
-ycd by rms in the federation
tier an agreement linking wages..-ial_relail prices i3deit_ on aThis agreentent an_ ithc periodin wh'ic_ accompaguqd it are to
rock's time. -. ,1
tlltalllli for new agreements
the unions said that they did
continue with the sliding scale
employers, who had also found
ory, welcomed this statement.ili!92'C now had second thoughts
id that they wish to continue
or at least two years, as partwage agreements now beingThe emp oyers have heard this
ii$i'na_]'<- the council or the
ill discuss what_to ,d0l_lO:Q¥iit the unions to-morrow. -
JUR RECRUITMENTill
. BENEFIT PROPOSAL onENCLOSURE OF 5,000 1
ACRES PROPOSED
i gator-t OUR CORRESPONDENT
LYMINGTON, NOV. 7 i
Dr i-meals for enclnsint! another $1110 . t...--... .......... ..,, ...__ ___ , . .0
ac_res of the New Forest for timber
growing were submitted to the Forest,
Verderers at Lyndhurst to-day. It was
indicated that the commoners would
raise strong objections. _One criticism
was that the scheme would cause more
animals to go on to the roads.
The Deputy Surveyor, Mr. E. Wynne-Jones, sought authority to enclose, in all,
37 areas. He said that the average size of
each area would be no more than 13$
acres, and that enclosing and planting was
likely to take many years. In the selectionof sites attention had been paid_i_o grazingrights and to the public amenities. Mi.
Wynne-Jones added that during the past
ve years 495.000 hardwood treesnearly all i
oak and beech-had been planted in the;
forest. ' i
Captain kit Sintnn. president of the
Forest Commoners' Defence Association,
said that recent meetings held throughout
the forest had given him an impression thatopinion was unanimous against further
enclosures for woodland. One of the pro-
posed sites was of 475 acres.The Official Verderer, Colonel J. B. Scott, I
staid that the matter would be further con- sidcred bly the court after this month's
election 0 vcrderers.
Q UNEMPLOYMENT SCHEME
i REV'lEW - }
T FORCED HOLIDAY l
Only one change in existing practice is
recommended by the National insuranceAdvisory Committee in their report on the lquestion of benefit for very short slilslli Of
unemployment or sickness published yester-
tia{;h _e change suggested is to meet the pro-blem of the man who, a_flcr taking the usual
annual holiday in one lob, goes to anotherjob and is then forced to talte another heli-day for which he receives no pay. The com-mittee suggest that the rule should be
changed so that such a man is not auto-
matically debarrcd from getting unemploy-ment benet for the second holiday, and
Mr. Osbert Peakc, Minister of Pensions and
National Insurance, yesterday $1-lb{"_1l1=§ 1°
the committee draft regulations to this enact.
The report marks a further stage in thegeneral review of the working of the nationalinsurance scheme. The committee, under
the chairmanship of Sir Will 5pe_ns, recom-mend that thc rules for wailing days "
should remain the same for unemployment
benet as for sickness henetthrec days." Waiting days " are the rst three days of
ti short spell of unemployment or sickness
for which benet is not usually payable.The continittec believe that the estimated
cost of abolishing waiting da s-£lI,$t,000 a ycar-could be better used, for the advan-
tage o_f insured_persons who have beenunemployed or HCK for a iairly long time.The report isogublished by the StationeryOlce Cmd. 96 !, price ls. 6d.
215.000 UNEMPLOYED
Only 115,000 workers were on_ the
y unemployment registers in Great Britain oni October 10, accordingl statistics issued bythe Ministry Of La our last night. Theunemployed were l DH cent. of the estimated_.--@-_-
RESHUFFLING SITES IN
BIRMINGHAM ,.
FROM _otJlt_0wN CORRESPONDENT
_ " 'BIRMINGl-IAM, Nov. 7 --
One of the less straightforward exer-
cises occupying the civic planner: of
Birmingham is the reshuing of several
hundred public houses in the ve central
redevelopment areas. These areas have,
in places, it public house on every street
corner.
An-long the planners more pleasing di_s- coveries, in trying to site licensed premises inplaces sultabe to all the many interests
involved, is that not all churches resent the, presence of at public house next door. Witht other interests, they strevalwa s consulted;and some Noneonforinist cliurches--whomight have been expected to bridle at theIhn trial lt mid it-iiil th v do not .....tt,...--..i-.-re ..._.. ..._. ...c, __
mind rubbing shoulders with an inn.
The number of dtveiliiigs in the redevelop-
ment areas will be reduced from 30.000 to
18,000 and industrial land increased slightly.Of licensed £!i¢n1i5CS it_ is proposed to retain135 i_nf_ the 4l f on -licences in the area~
providing new sites for 68-and 37 of the
i 87 off-licences. Many licences will go with
the population moved to the new estates.
JUDGlNG THE NEED
There is no precise yardstick for jud inghow a public house is meeting ii need. gfheianners have thought to put a licensedouse in every major neighbourhood
centre " and in sub-centres of like character,
Some must be provided on trunk roads, to
catch the passing trade, and others in indus-
trial zones.l Public houses cannot be Rut beside latstreet roundabouts, whore t ey would holdup traffic} or near to nursery schools; or
neat to oid people's bungalows, where the
noise from them would be disturbing.
Of nearly 100 sites so far discussed
with the brewers there has been disagreement
on only three. About l2 public houses a
year are being demolished. So far Ill have
gone.The brewers will meet the corporation
shortly to discuss leases in the redevelopment
areas. They say that on the 75-year leases usually offered b the corporation they can-not provide antl operate protably public
houses of the standard required. _
FOR TH ROWLNG
it FIREWORKS
, CONTRASTS us TWO counts
i . AT now STREET
Two magistrates sat at Bow Street Cottrtsesterday to deal with cases of throwinglighted reworks among the crowds nearTrafalgar S uare on uy Fawkes night.There were 83 defendants, the maiority being charged with insulting behaviour and setting
, re to reworks i_n the street.1 The avcrife line in Court l -.-.-asover 9s., whiie in Court 2 the average ne
was just over £2. "the re_vt-orlts found on
defendants who appeared tn Court 2 were
conscated. Those found on Court l
defendants were returned to them theMagistrate Mr. Bertram Reece! rcmariting: l don't suppose they will be so silly as
to do this again."In Court I Mr. Reece dealt with 59 youths,
i the maiority under 20 years of age. The
maximum ne,was 10s.. the total amounting
to £27 5s. _The Magistrate Mr. Cecil Campion! sit-ting in Court 2 dealt with 23 cases. In
i ning i3 or the defendants £3 each, he
pointed out the danger of eople gettinge e injuries through eigrlocling reworkstliirown at random. The 3 defendants paid
l it. iQi.]=i,l =2! ..£.:_".. in . .ttsi- . -i
l
lNews in l:
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RUSSIAN laivmtnotti.Pl_-
Council yesterday acceptedfrom the_ Russian Black
Novorossiisk to send a deputa
-the Lord-Mayor there on it v
£25900 IN Gaitit'rs.The an
"the Rowland Hill Benevolen
that for the year crldtl March E
amounting to almost £25,000
past and present members of
stat! in need at help.
PALM PIINTI lJ_e.sraovao.-
sets of palm prints which 92
Scotland Yard during an inqu
year into a murder on Potters l
were burned in a council depot
Middleseit, yesterday.
Han-tans Fasis.-~Thc F
Association is seeking the su
servative M.P.s for a request
ment that British Road Servi
to retain only the number o
vtded for in the Transport At
BIGOEl_ CI~lII..DlEN.~-A repo
kott, principal scltod. medic.
don County Council. Pllblisshows that the averii e hcighof all London schooichildrci
15 years have increased in the
Titucits Deiiititso.-Four
two of them carrying Army
down s sun. embankment at
lion, near Brookwood, Surre
day. Other trucks which
bloclted lines to Bournemoutl
l'o1-rir.iiY_ DEFUTATIDN. -
Broolwi Financial Secretary tyesterday met representativesottery Manufacturers Fcde
National Association of Pr
regarding the recent impositi
tart on domestic pottery.
Wade Aw.92ap.0ne lhtmaintenance mechanics in w
tories receive 6 per cent.
minimum time rate of £8 ls
Week under an award of the
putes Tribunal, announced ytaward is effective from the w
25, I955.
Pensions FOR Teacilna:
Teachers representatives
cussed with Sir Gilbe
Permanent Secretary to lh
Education and other Miproposals for provision for w
and dependents to be mad:
scheme for teachers super:
wlN5_TON Cl-tuitci-iii i.
Qhurchill _yeslerday unveiledto name inc Winston C'nurc'r
Ormond Street Hospital for
The _£3,000 required to 1-tamPcllllfy was raised by memhcand ool Makers Associalioi
birthday gift to Sir Winston
TOMMY FARRS
BACK FIG
EFFORT TO CLE
Tommy Farr, the forrrle
weight boating champion, w
the Chancery Division yest
earnings from television, brt
and the Press when he spr
a 'tidgt1]ent summons for lit
William Little, of the Alban
i Mr. Farr, of Wilbury Roetold Mr. Justice Harman ll
ve come-back ghts to '
debt. He did that to live
deceneies arid principles.
his last ght with Donalready seen his " fortieth P
Muir Hunter, for M
suriiri-ions was the balance
[§|]|gg}§_ it ttiaiy _r92i.. ttitt'i.-
.11;-om; in the l0l'LI_2Il Olhcc
stay 2; you had authorizedii¢_tiioriud_ Qf course. it was
.- Forei n Oice knew, that92cryice knew as ,W¢ll-
~92l. INQUIRY
if these unhappy and beastly
in view of public BOP"?-
.-n riiiainderstanding, thereinquiry into the _admi_nistra-
iii, anti promotion Ill~ll18
That shoiild iriclgide theheavy burden t 1 fell on.il' State in m times.could be made yaa select92fll'92'lC other sui body.
ilso a case for saminingin the light of tl'Burgess'iCid¬t1l5 and party to be
' security services were good.
l not be a public in uiry,'CpOll be published.qIhc_v
l'l;. divulgcnce of the secrets
counter-espionae. Therecation by a udge or Judges
lg a private report to the
Both subjects might be
-oinmittee_of Privy Coun-
ing both sides of the I-louse
IICC that madt! them speci-
theie matters. But there
-iry. The country would not
.iout an inquiry of some
-it an adequate eld, for the
illll to know that adequate
.; taken, arising out of an
-as disturbing and worrying
.lNG CONFIDENCE
t'!_MME - DUNCAN Perth
litre, C.! asked what con-
- between Burgess and Dr.
western German security
ed t0 the Communists in
try to ensure that such a
irgess and Maclean affair'ri again. As long as thefor security at t at time
i positions, he doubted if
l Britain would be main-
.-XN Coventry, East, Lab.!
-fending the Foreign Oflice
had put it far deeper into
"r four years, this tissue of
lis and contradictions was
.ilcl produce, then the im-" cover up " was more
cited than ever.
em of the Foreign Office
but whether the reforms
its ago had_ produced the
. tears was JUSI about the
- inquiry into the effects
. which cut the Foreign
. he rest of the Civil Scr-
i inomous and badly under-
. ist services of the Foreign
, 92'ED SERVICES
SPEIR Hcxham, C.! gaid
._= lst four years the security- much_rnaligncd. It would
.ntry if there was some
adequacy of-our intelli-
seemed that they could
iiproved.
.OMNEY Hamrnersmith,_ that the White Paper was
1 vet up SOl'l1Clhlllg withincs in the Foreign_O_fTice,- dytrom their follies and
. -"5Jt1tlst1"t¢_irt and neglect,
, Wits an independent in-" "'l§l"B$ Of Foreign Office.. irity services there would
j $91 Epsom, C.! said-2 ~92m thc_White Paper that
E c covering up by bureau-; 'l"= leilttt that the_ two
t t-i°"Bt=d to the service.
-_ ~I MACPI-IERSON Stir.7 ab-l sugported the plea. the met ods and Sources
. the Foreign Service.
Y NICHOLSON Fain-If ,|'l.l!.f_,.t1I.l |tt'!'92Q.92J! Hi'.rrs---not have ti in the l"-oretgrt 5ervice for
one wcck.INCOMPV ta: LOYALTIES
MR. A. J. IR .LiverpooI, Edgehill,
Lab.! said that too .iiense I loyalty to s
department and to ones colleagues had
been allowed to persist up to the point at
which it was incom aiible with thenational interest, and that could best be
cured by an extension of the sources of
recruitment to the department.
LIEUT.-COL. CORDEAUX Notting-
ha_m, Central, C.! said that the particular
failure of the security services about Bur-
gess and Maclean was bad enough, but it
could not be considered in isolation._ There
should be an inquiry into the 'S¢ClJTll}' ser-
vices; the faith of the people in them had
been badly shaken_._ Mr. Mact't1illan_should
reconsider the decision that an inquiry was
not necessary.
LIEUT.-COL. LIPTON Britten, Lab.!
said that the two men, for reasons apartfrom the Olcial Secrets Act, had érovedthemselves uniied for the Foreign rvice.
Did the Government have to wait for other
information before getting rid of drunks
or homosexuals or people who were
admittedly united by reason of character
to have posts in it Government department?
MR. DAINES East I-lam, North. Lab.!
said that Lieut.-Col. L_iptoi-i_ had made acharge against Mr. Philby in it question.He owe it to the House to give the
sources of the information on which that
charge was based.
LIEUT.-COL. LIPTON, after some other
interruptions, said the statement he had
made concerning Mr. Philby on October
25, was quite a serious one, and he was
convinced that in making it he was serving
the public interest by forcin _ the Govern-ment, and in particular the f'Ol'ElFIl Secre-tary, to rovide much more in ortnationthan had been provided hitherto.
MR. NUTTING, Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs Melton. C.!.Will the hon.
member be good enough to forward to theForeign Secretary the evidence upon whichhe is basing is charges against Mr.
Philby 7
LIEUT.-COL. LlPTON.No. Laughter!
I am prepared to forward that information
ton judicial member of the Privy Council
who, it has been suggested, should carry
out an investigation into the operations of
the secret service.
When the verbal niceties of the Foreign
Se_eretarys s eech have been examined itwill be found!! am justified in not making
a withdrawal at the present time. K
CONDUCT IN CAIRO
MR. -ROBENSS CHARGES
MR. ROBENS Blylh, Lab.! said the
public and many M.P.s were sure that
there was a close circle of people in the
Foreign Oice who covered up for their
friends. How else could it be that a couple
of drunks, a couple of homosexuals, wellknown in London, could for so lot? have
occupied important posts in the oreign
Oflice '1' Checrs.!
The White Paper stated, of an incident
that had occurred while Maclean was in
Cairo, _in May, 1950, while serving at his
Miiicsty's Embassy. Cairo, Maclcan was
guilty of serious miscondiict and suffered
a form of breakdown which was attri-
buted to overwork and excessive drinking.
But what were the facts about this one
case? He was not going to talk about a
ght Maclean ha'd with 'an E yptittn guardor the breaking of the leg of a collea uewhile on a boating trip. Macleart and a
friend, both in it drunken state, had gone
into the at of a girl who was a librarian
at the United States Embassy in Cairo.
The girl was absent. They had forced their
way in and taken all the drink there was
available. They had then pushed a lot ofthe girl's clothing down the lavatory,
smashed a table, knocked into the bath a
heavy slab of marble xed as ti shelf over
the radiator and broken the bath.
..._ A . SHOr.£.tm.r".'t...s'.":nns:. . . . .took iiim home. D_icl the Whi ipcr reveal
half of that shocking story li.tCl¬ilI'l came
back to this country at -_ -is given siit
montli92' leave of absence. ioor, over-
straincd, over-worked genil. .n, and he
was then given a job at the Foreign Ofce.
Disgraceful behaviour of that kind by
Maclean in Cairo, Washington, and this
country should have been dealt with year!
ago. Opposition cheers.!
'lbere sh_ould '_be two in uiries. Oneihtlld be into the Foreign Ohice organiaii-ti_on, its _recruttment, an whether I closed
circle existed or not, and whether covering
up_took place. The other inquiry shouldbe in relation to security.
SIR ANTHONY EDEN said that this:
had been a sad day for the Foreign Service
and for this c_ountry. The reputation of theForeign Service was art of our nationalreputation. He agreed; with Mr. Morrison
that, whatever mistakes rriighi or might not
have been made, one thing was certain-
thtit nobody at the Foreign Oice at any
time covered up any form of disloyalty to
the State. If any mistakes were made, they
were not of the kind even remotely tinged
with disloyalty. .
The suggestion that the Foreign Service
should be made part of the Civil Service
was absolutely unworkable. Hie members
of the amalgamated Foreign Service under-
took to accept service at home or abroad.
that could not be asked oi the menioeiii
of the Civil Service.
Several members had asked why, once
Maclean's behaviour in Cairo got so bad,
he was not dismissed the service. He the
Prime Minister! did not know about this
behaviour; he was not then in the Govern-
ment; but it was an arguable proposition,
and he would not say what he would have
done had he been Foreign Secretary at the
time. It would have been an appallingly
difficult decision to take.
Thank God I did not have to judge it he
said!. All l can say is that it is rather
harsh to say that there is nothing to be
lsaid at all in favour of giving anybody a
second chance. That is a doctrine about
which this House should hesitate before it
lays it down.
DISAGREEABLE MEASURES
I was interested to watch the mood o_f
the House as the Foreign Secretary was
describing the new measurespositive
"vetting," as it is called. Personally. I
think it is right, and l think it is inevitable,
but l donot pretend that I like it very
much. I really do nottliis going along
i to the tutor of someone and sa ing, What.did you really think of so-and{so when he
was in your college 7 and so on. ]t_is
really disagreeable to the ordinary British
instinct, but I think we just had to do that
much. This I think is the minimum we had
within the existing law. Therefore I think
we have acted rightly, in the spirit of what.
the House would wish. ,3There was no reason to suppose there}
was any connexion between the depatlfei
of.Burgess'a_nd the defection of Otto-John»
i to the cast. -
i He could not explain in detail how the:
caution should be taken to ensure thatevery man and woman in the public service
did not work against the security of the
State. He therefore proposed to the Leader
of the Opposition that a_sma]l informal
conference of Privy Councillors from both
sides of the House sliould_bc convened
to examine together the security procedureswhich were now applied in "W P"ll'c.*".r'vices, and also to consider whether within
_|,l-ii: law any further precatitiori_could pro-perly be taken to reduce the risk of trea-security services had followed and dis-,3. -fl-=covered Maclcan's activitids. That was? ";-g tsomething that had been concealed from I?-, --1 - _. . ~ . -
the House, and must be concealed for 300d §i,@{-_,__ -._ , _h _ _ _92 ,,reasons. That the investigation had covered -H,_._.,; _ pt r _ - ~ '
6.000 people and had been narrowed down ~- -to one indicated the care and efficiency Wlll]Eg._f...,,4.. .!lj....;,': -i-.-_f£_.-;$_-Q-1:which it was pursued. It also indicated thi ._- i-_§.,_ .'__ 1 " ' -' M__l_1_VL,.continuing in ormation on Wl'92li.ll it rested "".=.i:f~_il.'-l-,,,,.--'ii*.i-l?";""More than that he was not prepared to "-4 .. 92~-3 _~ _, _., _- It was agreed that every ]92.lSlI3blC prc ft - _ e '
l
chtry such as had been discussed by thi M -.3'*'I__-l_gWti_se.____ r _ _ , U _ , s. -anitictics, tears, f1'll§ttl92[1i'LZllCll921t92."t
fusion there was ll larger qlltfhlit
SAFEGUARDING LIBI
POWERS OF SECUI
_¢ g , SERVICES
How far he continued! are iiipursuit of gent security at the i.essential Ii rties of t e British
Cheers.! Some have said that Bi.
Maclean should not have beetto escape; Under the law as
to-day t y could not have been
from escaping unless 1 charge c-
been preferred. No charge could 1
preferred.
Would the House like that lavi
Would the House agree that the l;allow any British siibgeci to be di-suspicion ? Cries o No ! "l.
to face these questions. Chcci
there is no evidence on which at m.charged would the House be wi
pcope should be held indenitel
police while evidence is collectei
them ? In this case detention wt
been justified. But who could
whether Maclean was innocent o:
POLITICAL OFFENCILF
British justice over the centuries
based on the principle that _a m:
be presumed innocent until he
proved guilty. Have we got to aha
principle '3
Perhaps worst of all, are we to
exception for political offences '.
thing I would wish to see i_n thi
is the security services-having--t
to do _some _of the things whichour frigndsua the Press do notrealize would ow from what they
Cheers.!
it may be true that if the sci:
vices had such powers Burgess and
would not be where the arethink it is true. But what wo
been the consequences for British
and for the rights this House l'li
always determined to defend ? l
make one thing quite clear. I webe willing to be Prime Minister of i
men! w ich asked those potter:
House. tLoud cheers.!
The motion was, by leave, will
The Expiring Laws Continuance
read-a second time.
The House adjourned at 29 min
I0 o'clock.
PARIJAMENTARY NOTII
t-ioust-: or LCIRDSTo-nay. ar 2.30Aliens Employment Bill, report.Mlitm Its the Earl of Sn.-iiitoti callingthe _orriiini:atiott of llie Service dcpartutcirighting services.
HOUSE OF COMMONS'0 d°- and 3'50 lhc mulmum '5 can d°
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and any previousemployment before Joining
the Foreign Service.
S92"STEM EXTENDED .Since 1951 some 900 cases, involving the
senior, junior, and clerical branches o theForeign Service, had been examined. _Sofar, t ere hid been four cases in _tl_te ForeignService il nch an officer's political activi-'r-- -...| . "site... had lat-I in his In-tvinoiii? ;;;~ if1.;'ii;Iiiéii;;.I'"r.. tart; iisit"<itiiéi'iother ca s it had been considered rud_eniilo move ocers to other work of ess im
Iportance to th_e national security, or to
accept their resignations.Tlmlrpositivc vetting procedure wasnot con med to the Foreign Service.- It was 1
now operated in all Governrnefii tiff-iiiments having access to classied material
involving the security of the State.immediately after the disappearance of
Macleari and Burgess Mr. Morrison. 13""Foreign Secretary, set up a committee tolook into all as|;:ects of the seciir-:y arrange-ments-in the orcign Service. The com-
mittee was an official one, which was a
wise act of Mr. Morrison, who_ choseollicials singularly well suited to their task,
men with great records of devotion to_the
public service, The committee was presidedover by Sir Alexander Ctidogan. and SirNevile .land and Sir Norman Brook, Secre-
tary te the Cabinet, were the other members'-"lLhe committee reported in November.
l92J5l, approving the se_curity check, includ-ii-ig the plans for positive vetting " whichk idalready been prepared. It recommendedt at vetting " s ould be extended to all
members of the sen_ior_ branches and thesenior grades of_ the _.!l.l.l'Il0f' branches _of
ihe Foreign Service. the present practice
of the Foreign Office went beyond_ that
recommendation, sin_ce i-riany more Juniorgrades, which must inevitably be employed
on highly classied work, were posiuvely
vetted
CHARACTER DEFECTS
- The contriiittee considered not only politi-cal unreliabilirgr in itself, but the problemof character efecls which might lay an
oicer open to blackmail, or otherwiseundermiiie-his_,loyalty and senseof res-
ponsibility. _- Shortgy after the disappearance of Mac-lean an Burgess, and before the Cadogtin
committee reported, fresh instrttctiorts had
been issued by the Permanent Under-Secre-
tary of the Foreign Oflice to heads of
missions and other senior officials impress-
in on them the need to watch, in parti-cular, the forms of behaviour an'io_ng their
sta likely to sap an ofcers discretionor sense of responsibility or his public
dut , or io expose iiiri_i to undue irii_itici-iceor blackmail, or to heighten the tension of
his existing behaviour. _The committee commented on those in-
structions with approval.
lt was sometimes_ said that recruitment
for the Foreign Service was kept to a closed
circuit. and that its members were taken too
narrowly from one social group. The
selection of recruits for all cxcept the most
junior grades had for a long time been in
the hands of the Civil Service Commis-
sioners. The Foreign Service was not aservice renewing itself biy co-option.lt was sometimes sai that the Foreign
Service, titre the rest of the Civil Service,
was a sortdof closed shop, that its failureswere protdcted, and that there was no
means of*getting rid of incompetent _or
urtsuitable'pcoplc. Since the introduction
of the Foreign Service Act, 1943, members
of the Foreign Service had not enjoyed the
same degree of security as that of the rest
of the Civit Service, for that Act rntro=
duced arrangements more like those of the
ghting Services, which provided for oom-
pulsory retirement of established members
who did not malite suicicnt progress to
justify their retention or promotion.It seemed that the case for a further
iijiquiry_ into _the recrt_i_itment yogi 0rtti92I,1_l,1i_92-tion or the roreign oervice nau not ucciieventually narrowed il_ down to one, but in
this case, unlike the I-uchs case. _they wereunable to obtain sufficient evidence tounify a charge: This was lo b_c_rcgretted,but 1 e dilcu ties under the British system
of law were very real.
Of the skill, perseverence, and loyalty of
the security service there could be no doubt.,[and he paid tribute to the fact_t'hat thei_Government were able to recruit to-day
~,mcn of such high calibre and aU.ai-rrments.iiltewards were not very large and responsi-
bilities were very great. _' Most people gained some satisfaction
in life_ not only from doing a job well but
also irorn the public acknowledgment oi
success; these men were cut off from all
that. "D-iey worked in secret. Most of their
successesand there were, indeed. successes
had to_be kept quiet. 0r_ily failure hit
the headlines. For this service, then. not
failure but patriotism was the spur and the
reward. tCheers.l
BRlTAIN'S REPUTATION
Of the more general aspects of security,
he was satised, and hoped the House
would be satised, that the new arrange-
ments had enormously strengthened the
security system. He doubted whether any
isubstantial improvements could be made
within the existing system of law. Unfortu-
nately, it was not sufficient to satisfy them-
selves that they had taken all possible
steps.
It could not be ignored that this inci-
dent, following upon others in the world
of science, had had a serious eliect on
Britain's re utation abroad. Cheers! Itwas inevitable. Many of the allegations
made by irresponsible people were so exag-
gerated that they carried with them their
,own refutation, nevertheless there was a
rcal danger that at feeling mi ht be spreadamong Britain's allies that gritaitfs relia-i biiityhitiierto regarded as a rnocieiwasi no onger to be trusted.
It was of great importance to the coun-
.i try's defence and safety that successive
Governments should be known tio have
j taken all steps within their power to stop
any loopholes and strengthen any legiti-
mate methods of defending vital secrets.
l lt was his belief that every practical means
had been taken that was open to the
executive, and he appealed to those con-
, ccrncd not to injure further the country's interests by spreading abroad a false and
still more outdated picture of the security
l system as it was to-day.
DISTASTEFUL MEASURES
, There had been _no dispute about the
character of the regime since 1689 in Eng-
, land and l7dS in Scotland. Bitter as had been the political conicts at certain tiriies,
there had been no question of serious acts
t of treachery to the country. One had to
t go back in the wars Of rciigiun to nd any
i parallel with the new ideological conicts
which divided the world, and might con-
l tinue to divide it for many years. Ono
i could not imagine a state of mind which
regarded spying as a virtue and treachery
as a duty, which brought a new problem
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