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| O DOR political columnist kicked over a hornet’s nest je the Succtator of September 23 when he ventured hig i opinkyy that there was a connection between the long ¢ official sitencé- over the Burgess-Maclean seandal and the fare : feuching pawer aml influence of what he termed the ‘Establish« ment.” ‘Fhe controversy which followed has been 3 lively one, | & buf, like most ferocious altercations, it bas succeeded in obscure aes dag the real issues, The lime has come to clear the ain - : cari ‘ "dt is @ fact ihat thers was a remarkably long official silence eo over the affair and that the hand of the Foreign Office was not - forced until Me. Pstrov's disclosures’ ware published fn ths ‘People. The subsequent White Paper with its lame evasions was not calculated to allay suspicion that something had been far wrong in high places. In placing responsibility for the “ general softness of opinion concerning the affair on the ‘Estah+ lishment Mr, Fuislic explained that by the term he meant ‘fnoty- ‘only the centres of official? power—though they are certainly part of it--but rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised.’ This was not to say’. that ‘the right people’ {the phrase which Mr. Buirlle Quoted as - , we ‘the populir term for the “Establishment’) would condone ; ziftd =~ treacherous activiiy on the part of those beside whan they re Oe Ae might find thenwelves at dinaer any evening. What Mr. Fairlie * vA Oo” AS ape? suggested was that ‘the right people’ might automatically, and es for the purest of motives, come to the aid of that “Establish« { «96 HOV i ment" which they canstituted. Mr, Fairlic’s comment wis of the , ‘Estabhshment’ self, not on such members of it who 10} shit, * we ” very properly, be loyal fo institutions almost entirely fe goo oe ‘tealked and staffed by people from ‘the same stratum.'! Mr. > ; we )Fai@ie named Lady Violet Bouham Carter as a prominent © SOAS member of the ‘Estublishmeat.’ Lady y Violet took Mr, Fuirlie’s - TRI TE GEC PO EL IY TAO EFI TER EERO RAT IRE SERRE IT ARIEL Gt COE ING ERT OE TEIN BIS EN NF REG E Be AT y PTR TET OE wet reap ee ‘ RE: BacLEAN. CASE, . anes th rene aa oR ier. ; " o ce a SoRDON BNR Pe ae Domatel MONON BRAND es gevgten gop sent: CoB, MT : >c NOV 16 1955 ¢ REP EOIA REQUESA ss a DS Se ES ae Dae Oe cape : ; yoni a ee ma Rae A a AN SEE RIEL Si CR ase SCRE ape pig ar ahesne ne age agar nanan bees pie id [ae oe. et coe Re Be a ie ex AS Tay leek ge a at ae Sete S : s : j i ; 7 fee nn 2