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- —_ 4 | HOUSE OF COMMONS _, Monvay, Nov. 7 The SPEAKER took the Chair at half past two o'clock. FALKLAND DEPENDENCIES MR, JOHN HALL (Wycombe, C3 and WING CMDR. ERIC BULLUS (Wembley, North, C.) asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Afiairs if he would make a statement about the dispute of this country with Chile and the Argentine in the Falk- 'dand Island Dependencies. MR. TURTON, Under Secretary, Foreign | Office (Thirsk and Malion, C.), said that ; both the Argentine and Chilean Govern- ‘ ments had informed the International Court of Justice that they wers unwilling 10 accept the jurisdiction of the court in regard to their claims to our Antarctic territories, This sigp was taken before the change of régime in Argentina, but there ‘was unfortunately as _yet no sign that the present Argentine Government intended to adopt a different attitude. In a statement at the United Nations General Assembly on October 3, the Argentine delegate re- peated in general terms the Argentine Government's claims inthe Antarctic. BURAIMI ACTION JUSTIFIED MONEY AND DOCUMENTS MR. MACMILLAN Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Bromiey, C.). in & statement about conditions in the Buraimi Oasis, said that since the Ruler of Abu Dhabi and the Sultan of Muscat reasserted their rights on October 26 the situation | there had been completely quiet and normal, After referring to the Prime Minister's statement on that day that the actions and conduct of the Saudi Arabian Government amounted to # repudiation of the Arbitra- tion Agrcement, he went on:— a This conclusion was based partly on the widespread corruption and bribery which had taken place among the inhabitants of the disputed area and had clearly rendered any genuine expression of their wishes ine ‘ possible, and partly upon the attitude of _the Saudi Government towards the tribunal j iiself. Qur. position has been fully justified ‘AL by the @vidence obtained as a result of the | re-entry of the forces of the Ruler of Abu Dhabi dand the Sultan of Muscat into Buraimi. In the frst place, a large sum of money was found in the possession & the Saudi police detachinent there, far in exces. of anything that could have been requited for the maintenance of this small post, This sum of moncy is being returned to the Saudi Government. Secondly, man documents came into our possession whic FY ample confirmation of the charges we ave made, MR. GRIMOND {Orkney and Zetland, ‘Lj As it is apparent that on this matter + a i ent, < we have an absolutely cast iron case, and Pmt, We are at last standing up for our friends eee cent the world, will the Foreign THE TIMES SIR A. EDEN ACCEPTS INQUIRY BY PRIVY COUNCILLORS wr 1 these incidents which had actual been observed. Should not the number o obset- vers be increased so that they could observe what was going on ja advance? MR. MACMILLAN said it wouid be best to let General Burns decide how many Observers he needed. ARTIFICIAL RAIN MR. GEORGE WARD, Under-Secretary of State for Air, in a written reply, states: — Some experiments in cloud seeding have recently been carried out from R.A-F. sir craft during normal cloud flying training. The experiments were controlled by the Meteorological Office and have taken place over an afea where any positive results might have a practical a well as an experi- mental value. It is not yet possible to say whether any significant 2ncrease in rainfali can be achieved. BACKGROUND TO TREACHERY CLASHING IDEOLOGIES On the motion for the adjournment, MR. MACMILLAN initiated debate on the disappearance of Burgess and Maclean. He said that it could rarely have arliameatary history litical] head of & to unfold to the that which it happened in the long P of Britain that the po department should have had House so painful a story as was their duty to consider. . To understand, without excusing, that story it was necessary to recall the back- ground in the 1930s in which the two principal characters grew Up. At that time violent opinions were being expressed, with the Spanish civil war dividing British and European opinions acutely. This had a par- ticularly disturbing effect on young ple, many of whom thought it their duty to lake part in those Tevolutionary struggles. When Hitler signed his pact with Scalin and the last war began some of those who had espoused extremist views found their ideological beliefg exerted a stronger pull than their patric lism. When the wat ended the clash of isyalties, which had been buried in 194, was revived. Thus it was that men could be found in Britain. whe could put the interests of anather country before theit own, and com- mit the borrible crime of treachery. This occurred not only among criminals and degencrates, but, in men holding high tech- nical and scientific posts, ia men of hilo~ sophic and literary attainments, and finally in the Foreign Cervice. Many who had seen that service at work at home and abroad would agree tunate to have a servic quality, giving most loyal and devoted service to tne Crown and the nation. That Foreign Service regarded the severe blow against its reputation as a personal cast, which had caused a profound shock to jParliament and the general public—(cries, of “Hear, hear.”}--at home and abroad. . m= MINISTERS’ RESPONSIBILITY 9 "TUESDAY NOVEMBER * )1955 Parliament — nae RING SECURITY IN A FREE SOCIETY mention was ma a an excepi.onally good report, in which no of hig leftewing views. had known wn he had r sympathies a$ an duate in those days, would the that such a man should excluded from the bic sition members: “ No.”) Surely it would have regarded those Jean- ings as one of the aberrations of youth, which he might have been ted to live down, cLaughter,) It was not fair in judg- ing a man to bring in the atmosphere to-day when judging the events of the 1930s, It was important to realize that uniil and after Maclean's appoiniment ia Cairo in 1948 the quality of his work was not only good but outstanding, among his contemporaries, Durin the first 34 years in the service his conduct gave rise to no If the board expressed Conmmunist undergra House have fel automatically be service ? (Oppo! iod of on routine wor ment. While he tment allegatior eave guilty of was af phim to Wa trial on rout suggestions 1 senous indiscr was not to. * since his es! fourth grade service. ‘jntelligence ma investigated 6 was severciy that he worl prospects {| diminished. Sdverse comment, His behaviour in Cairo, Jn Washit which culminated in a sudden application The Ambas for sick leave, was at the time interpreted both on hi as the result of a prolonged perl outside, and averwork and strain. his establish SECOND CHANCE recalled an He was regarded as a valuable member [‘he would | of the service, and there was every reason | ihe day o to suppose end to hope that he might make } po grounds a full recovery from what appeared to be | against the a sort of nervous breakdown, and the | been indisc Foreign Office, like any other decent em- | not Rencra ployer in the circumstances—at the lime | agent. there was no suspicion as 10 bis loyalty ~ He wishe: tried to see He had the right nedical ireat- | fairness te ment and a chance of recovery. that a fi ( was casy 10 say with present know- cillor, rec ledge that the decision was wing. Perhaps Mr. Mch it was, It was easy to be Ws after the | carac his event, but he was given a second chance miffan} fe and, at the end of five monhs’ medical } this parti treaiment, he was put at the head of the American department, LEA™ The appointment implied ne promotion for him and provid watch his conduct and ed, an opportunity to his heath. At this ] ime ne suspicion reste on hin. | . STA “ As soon as he fell under suspicion, which : was in the. middle_of,April, 051, one of He th those informed was Sit Roger Makins, ROW | shat it our distinguished an highly successful | men were Ambassador in Washington. He was then In Ji Maclean’s immediate chief, being the Phat ce superiniending Under-Secretary of the group | syailab in which the depatiment cane, If was, | earlier therefore, quite untrue, as had been 5Us- | had be gested, that Sir Roger Makins was n anY 1 even h way yesponsible for the conduct of Of} gent in inquiry or had checked or cleared Maclean. | tye fie! That was not the case, and wceh & sug> | very lal gestion was false and grossly unfair to Pur Sir Rogen Makias. Tt wa BURGESS’S RECORD autho Burgess’s careet in the Foreign Service | Mavic was totally different, He was taken on as | met a temporary Press officer in the news de- T sive, riment of the Foreign Office, then housed credit Fy the Ministry of Information, in 1944. tude His previous career, to the extent then | Beld, known, gave what seemed to be a respects thro able background, . ; narr In 1945 he took advantage of the opnor- ito © tunity open to temporary officers to apply E: for establishment in the junior branch of 19 the Foreign Service. He appeared before a [oor Civil Service board, who duly recommended pert him for esiablishment. In fairncss to the ; dene board, they were impressed by his excellent | Pros academic record, as well as by the good fra reports they had received covering his env Ro’ ployment in the B.B-C. and in the Foreign | st Office news department. However, they. his now knew that Burgess’s work while with | UF a wartime department responsible for propa- | ganda to neutral countries bad deen: Ta unsatisfactory. . fas It was unfortunately the case that during ul the war—and perhaps one could hardly | © ‘wonder at it—~many war departments did , not keep good records about their tem | y porary staff. The fact remained that neither {7 the Foreign Offce nor the Civil Service | 5 commission knew of Burgess’s failings. ‘ SEVERE REPRIMAND This process by which he was established ora not on i 1 October, 1947. in I i}