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RENAE Whe security gercvite Tauast suyely be rerarded as siniast ouf ftst dine of defence. Espionage undertaken by some foreign country, diselos- ing seerets about diplomacy. or defence plans, may prove in tie lone run. more disas- trous than a shortage oof manpower of Idek of modern, WEA DUNE. ? &ee aimays assumed wthat our security men toere the musi Xeen areal intelligent in the world, No doubt they dre, St mhen the greaxon- able pair were discovered my were they alowed fo escape front Aig couriry ? Really both the Forefen Ove and MEG nish not aide-step thls question, Giberwise they will Daye @ jot more fa answer for: Eh dan’t as if this was an. isolated casé, Shice the last war ab least seven vitel people have sipped through the Secret Service nek. Two of them—Nunn May ind Klaus FPuchs—-were ¢np« ured, bat oniy after they ad sold secrets to a foreign couniry,, Fuchs was a known anmiuniast, yet he was | FAnossy ” ‘edeurlty methods show id recommended for British naturahisatian by reputable citizens. WHI the Forelgn Oifes now giscioge their names ? Nunn May passed atumile Sdcrets fo the Russians. It is Known that he was in eontact with a military abtaché of the Sovier Em- bassy in Canada in 1943, yet ib was mot unit! 194¢ that be Was arrested, What of Bruno Porte- oorve? This chisive eustorrier, after threes security ehecks, im Ig4é became a British citi- gen. He worked in our atomie ttations thongh the authori- tiles knew ot his family Oom- munis “eannectiong. He ‘moved fa Helsinki (n IOS, and, of eourse, then found refuge in Russia, Have the British public such. shxet memories phat they have already forgotten titase gentry. or the story of who vanished $0 Dublin it 1986, and tien te Budapest, There were otherg, Thave no danbt. Strangest of sil isthe fantastic tale of Mrs. Matlean, far whont much sympathy wae aroused in certain quartsre after . her fhbsband had vanished. An inquiry HE went to live im Switgeriand, where, though apparently avithont (‘furds, ahe managed to keep up appearaneed..as befits the wife of a Foreign “Ofice offielal, It is Qlear that this sup- posediy Innocent person was far betier Informed about her erring husband's doings than was {thought at the time, — ° Did £8 not occur ta our ecurity men the? she might ave been detained and it~ ferrogeted @s a material wtiness, Op did aomebody tr high places iufercade for 4A. therough tovestigation into our security service and its Halgom with the Forelgr Office and other Government epartments can mo ionger ¢ delayed, ; The argument that our never be disclosed will not hold water. The fact th that our security is at stake The. disclosure that Burgess «ang WMasisan were tipped off by a British official tn Wash. ington—even ff iis ne more than a rumgur-—ts bound to cause. further disquiet, Mr. Hernert Morrison’s suggestion thal a few semior Privy Councillors from. each party should be -seiecied to undertake an taquiry should be repected. fix-Cabinet Ministers. are as likely te be involved as the Permanent UnderBeerstary ab the Forclgn Office or the head of. MAIS, Vital gap opiniens mer the standing of poli eal personalities should vex- glide the most pevetraling exBmination: Wei mies have an dindengerdent body to tackle this job. } SHOULD SELEQT ROBY MADE UP OF SOME BUSINESS MEN OF HIGH STANDING, TWO EMENENT SUBGES, TWO PROMIN: ENT TRADE UNION LEADERS, TOGETHER WITH A&A REPRESENTA. TIGN FROM THE UNI- VERSITIES., AM active snd retired polt~ ticians must be barred, I have mo desire to see this. country emulating the United States. Televisian tnterrogation of suspects is mahseating, But syen Wo gecagionally some innacent person is stibjected to examination © snould mot regard that ag tuo high a cpries to par if the gaps dn our security could be sealed. Seourlty is Visit we ows ki bo oursehyes, to Ministers, wha carry the prbicipal responsi Dllty, to. vast Mure bers in. the Civil Servigp, and ta cur Alles in the Western Hemisphere. The Government must ach ~and ab one J pas ee ate a Rear erereeereeeeereremneeenen: Nevetteneey