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. eee _, He decided that Mr Selwyn -Lloy wpuld make a statement in the Commons afer this afternoon. | - re The statement ts in feply ‘toa ; private not! question by Mt Herbert rrison, who was Foreign: ecretary when Maclean and Burgess di from London in 1951. g ; : 7 appease ~ " Mr Morrison: is asking || , Cabinet: Called| tt Untill now the Russians epeatedly denied any knpw- dee of the whereabouts of She they have any further comment to. make on two Britons Maclean and Burgess Ord ‘sir Anthony Eden has called jon the statement which/a Cabinet Meeting for this the two .men “issued “in| CVen ne. ee et ‘This will be held after he has Moscow on Saturday... j/reparted to MPs on his talks ” Many MPs on both sides of the With President Eisenhower and House were eagerly awaiting |, Canadian Premier San Laurent -- an opportunity this. afternoor||_,rhe Cabinet, who will prob- to put questions to the Foreigr ably meet again tomorrow. are Secretary After. his statement. re ready to give final nt poles eee oe Tom ; Jt the annual Government Olies a a, a. ee siptement on.Defence. Th will nvoys sic¢iegram “4 published at the end qf the feanwhile, Sir William] * ck. sO } Tidvter, British Ambassador in| ~ Mdscow, reported by telegram to the Foreign Office on the re- appearance of Madlean and UPrKeSS. - This telegram was considered by Mr Selwyn Lloyd and_his experis at the Foreign Office. They also studied the statement which Maclean and Burgess made. on The Government believe the two men were “pul on show” purely for Soviet propaganda reasons. . ' h Their Usefulness Ministers are therefore. anxious to avoid ¢reating the impression that they atlach great importance to this new develop~ ment in the four-and+a- half-years-old mystery” of thé : : on missing diplomats . It has long been accepted that they were working behind the Iron Curtain. - | Whitehall opinion is the use- fulness of Maclean and Burgess to the Soviet Government hat been much exaggerated. : “4 One theory i8 that it was ‘ “ necessary for them temporarily : be brought out of. their . shidowy existence to avald atrassing questions fer . : Matshai Bulganih = and r Krischev when they visit jon in the Spring. : I io 9 4 1 a ¢ wate we ca es ht ea Pe roe Fad ~ wa - fe ney A te ey ae natin! a . cae, ete