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ee ee an a) of a _» Their answers would almost certainly have beea’ unsatisfac- . ke i. ching inquiry, which can be conducted only by the Hous so we a = 7 * : Political “Commentary i, be & “> By HENRY FAIRLIE} £. T cfacy, Mr. Christopher Hollis—cluim that Parliament a nowadays does very ligle that is useful should reflect bon what “would have. happened - this week if the House: offi ; Commons had been sitting, Qa Monday either the, Prime. ) “Minister or the Farciga Secretary. would have had to answer} ..& Private-notice question about the Maclean-Burgess affair. ee oar ineede. “tory, aad some Member would have moved the. adjourament) "of the House an a definite matter of urgent public importance. » The Speaker would have had no alternative bet to accept "the motion—clearly the Foreign Office's admission that Mao, ' Teun and Burgess were Soviet agents is both a ‘definite? matter: .. ahd one of ‘urgent public importance,’ and it would have bean | - raised at the carliest possible moment (another qualification: _ which has tobe folfilled if the adjournment of the House is! . “to be moved). He would then have asked if forty Meme! «, bees were prepared to sappori the motion for the adjournment, } “and there can be no doubt that forty members would have| : risen in their places. Consequently, at 7.30 that evening the) F Howse would have interrupted its normal proceedings aad } e debated the remarkable staiement which the Forcign Office, “had made to the pregs the day before, The result might have. been BS important 3s the result of the adjournment debate on”. ,, the Savidge case. in 1929, which led to as inquity into Bolice. ommons, aad which the House doses, in fact, conduct ¥ a cenreeer se een theresa nnanananntaNaatianntaneeasasciahnartarsebiin ids A HOSE who-—tike that admirable Cassandra of ‘demo! (ae NOT Sor RECORDED 126 NOV 15 1955 ee eRTR, ¥ pELETED cory sent “© <®- Mee Dental BY RETIER JUN 22 19700 ¥ PER FOIA REQ rs a ai ryt eee . ponnoncemarnenmmnennagemegees SSR “ REE ae al = Res eS ET Se ee Tae WEEE eee SEPTEMBER 23, 1955 of. LONDON, ENGLAND aaa ree es — ate ee a