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? ngayine - stot EY _— ate a dat ea , Hi tial ws fr. Morrison finished read- ing, then repeated: “I am inflined to think Maclean was tipped off by somebody wh ew what was going to bappen.” . Mr. Macmillan, in his speech, had indicated his desire to receive any evidence not already availabieé. Every namié méntidtied in connection . With the case had been, or was being, thoroughly investigated, he said. No one was being shielded. ; "2 INQUIRIES | URGED ut Mr, Morrison wanted sqmething more. -He asked ros (1) An inquiry into recruit- fient and promotion in the Foreign Office and into its administration—possibly by a Select Committee, - aC See, . (2) An investigation of the security services—by a judge ‘or judges. . - Alternatively, he suggested a committee of privy council- lors. representing both sides of the House, might under \take. both inquiries. + Mr, Morrison made these *sifigedtipis, but the Foreign \sefretary had taken some ‘tr@uble to knock them down, evpn beforé they were voiced. Whout the first, he thought | ‘mé@t the criticisms. reforms made since the war “The re- delling of the Foreign Ser- “vfce was initiated by a Con- sérvative Foreign Secretary, ter exhaustive {Inquiry by the Coalition Government,” he recalled, \ “Tt was implemented by a ‘Labour Foreiga Secretary in the Parliament of 1945, which cannot be accused of being too prejudiced in favour of the past, or standing too rigidly on ancient ways.” About the second point, Mr. Macmillan said; “I am satisfied, and I hope the House will be satisfied, that all these new arrangements . which have been made have enormously strengthened th system. security I doub re MORRISON T a ms watched by the poli Government cheers.} | A system of acting on sub- ‘ icion might degenerate in he satisfaction of persongl vendettas or a general system of tyranny. in January, 1949, & report was received jhat certain British information had be- . come available to the Soviet a few years earlier, “and it is greatly to the-credit of the security services that informa- tion of the leak became known at ail.” a Even when ‘suspicion wa | [marrawed down to Maclean, l the evidence @as quite incon clusive and circumstantial MACMILLAN ..>; “) think they}were tipped off” whetber any substantia] im provements can be made with- in our existing system of law.” -- ‘Though the galleries were packed for the debate, the chamber, oddly, was crowded. Mr, Macmillan spoke for 67 minutes, in an unusually quiet and unh- dramatic way—all the drama - jay in the mere facts he recounted. Defending the present. security atrangements in the Foreign Service, he said h was not attracted by th alternative—a kind of NKV or OGPU, with’ ever. not - A watch was kept to 8 information~-but n Ne. home, “since the ris! het he would be put upon AY guard would be too great. Since 1952 some SUD.cascs, involving senior, hinler and lerical branches of the Foreian Serves ha been examined, So far there had four cases in the Foreign Sfrvice where, ad officey’s pplitical activities and ass cbiions had led to his jJeavipz ; the Service altogether. angen