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. Nielaie . Belmont. —_- . Har .. Mohr 2. ne _ Pergons....- - » Rasen ° . ° wea oeawd.. Tele, Reece Mr. Hoivean Misa Gandy 4 ee Bona Mae. Lean R. PHILBY [JONDON TO- ake 4 VISIT TO PARENTS Daily Telegraph Reporter Mr. Harold Philby, former First Secretary at the British &mbassy in Washington, whoa: was mentioned by Mr. lan, Foreign Secretary, in the House of Commons yesterday in ‘relation to the Burgess and Mac- "lean investigation, {s expected this morning at his parents’ lhome tn Drayton Gardens, Ken- sington. His mother. who {s the wife of Mr. | Harry St. J. Philby, the explorer and ‘authority on Arabla, said last, night ,that her son had been in touch with ,her, but she did not know where he was staying. She did not know if he had been tote that-Mr- Macmillan had cleared him of the imputation lof warning Burgess or Maclean. Asked what she thought of Mr. -Macmillan’s statement, she replied: ! “Tr is wonderful.” Mr, Harold Philby, who joined the Forei Office in 1946, went to Washington in 1949. Burgess at one ‘time- lodged with him there. In ‘June, 1951, the month after Burge: sss and Maclean disappeared, \P ilby returned to London. e resigned the service in sf tefiber of that year. He a ay from his home re & Sh - rough, Sussex, since Oct. 22. Fis (e's also | left the house recently 4) RE: MacLEAN CASE (Bufile 100-371183) DAILY NOVEMBER 8, 1955 LONDON, ENGLAND BAe Maemil- ITS LESSONS has the Burgess-Mackean case continued to éxcite public, concern? Not because It con~' forms in many réspects to the pattern of a sensational novel- ette. Not because any particular interest attaches to the squalid personalities concerned. The truth ls that the whole episode administered a very severe shock to the reputation of the Foreign Office. How could this eminent Department ever have empioyed such people? How could it have continued t6 employ them after very great numbers of people knew their personal characters to be what they were? Is there any guafabtee 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 makepings und other people is lathe to © rings made round itself. * a “ps CASE AND na es co ie PEGRAPH & MORNING POST . ~ AA AM =a wt vi) Mr. Macmin.tan rightly ibed the whole business ainful.” But+enot the te Pdiniul part of it is the way has been haridléd by those # felt the pain. Mr. HeERBeat Morrison, Foreign Secretary at the time of the flight, stone- walled. The White Paper pub- lished two mofiths ago read like & Masterpiece of uninformative irrelevance. But Mr. MacmILLAN yesterday. was certainly wise enough to change the tone of the explanations, and to add proofs of a reform of the security system. In so far as both the tone and the substance of official statements were better, the case cera | for an inquiry, with due discre- tion and without undue inhibi- tions, becomes less urgent. But, aS the Primz MINISTER very. clearly recognised, all anxiety is. nat removed; and his suggestifn offa small all-party inquiry py Privy Councillors well meérits the consideration for which he askéd. + * we JUN 22 4970. a +. “ow arerd : we! Caleta 5 ea keeee Lehn pin ie 2 as re oe ae! A Te ape i