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Cc spy — J Continued From First Page story that Philby and his fam- -glg had left the country. j i Nobody Being Shielded *Th j e Foreign Secretary assured the House “nobody was being in| | fainy way. shielded” in the inves-. tigation into the spy ‘case and] Made this appeal: . “If any evidence can be pro- duced by anybody inside or out- side the House, I trust it will be made available to the authori- Philby, son of an internation-| ally Known explorer, was named) in the Burgess Maclean case last | week by & Laborite member of, the House of Commons. Lt. Col. Marcus Lipton, in pressing for an investigation, asked Prime Minister Eden: “Have you made up your mind to cover up at all costs the dubi- ous third-man activities of Mr. Harold Philby, who was first sec-. retary of the Washington Em-: bassy until a little while ago . Sir Anthony retorted “my gn-' swer remains no”. and promfed. thin to arrange for today’s fie-; bake of the case—described by! Foreign Secretary, Macmillan as’ one of the "most painful” in British history. Wife's Role Minimized Nearly two years after Burgess and Maclean- vanished, just as o-~@ security net was closing in on them, Maclean's American-born wife, Melinda, disappeared with their three children. Mrs. Mac- lean and her family had left England to live in Switzerland shortly before. Their trail from there was traced to the border of the Iron Curfain. ‘She is be- lieved to have-joined her hus- band, Present wheraabouts of Bur- gess and Maclean have not been definitely established -— though + there have been reports placing thaw, tn Bi memes me te eee te itg MCI 11) BVAUSUUW OL 11] B BA LELLLLE country. ' : As for the fight of Maclean’s ‘ wife later, Mr. Macmillan said: “The real point is that Mrs. - Maclean -has very little impor- Security Strengthened . Macmillan said Brit - cufity had been strengthene# in’ thd Foreign Office—even “before. Burgess and Macieah fled-—when sudpicions were figst aroused, Mr, Macmillan sald that as. goon a8 Maclean fell under sus- picion in the middle of April, 1951, “one of those informed was Bir Roger Makins, now our Am- bassador in Washington. The Foreign Secretary empha- sized, however, that it was “quite| untrue” that Sir Roger had been in any way responsible for “checking or clearing Maclean. “Tt can rarely have happened} in our long parliamentary his-| tory that a political head of a department should have had to unfold to the House of Commons so painful a story as that which; it ig our duty to consider today.’ Giving the background of Bur- Burgess and Maclean fled—when sods of the top-drawer class that has held high places in the British foreign service—Mr. Mac- millan sald: “To understand, though not,|, of course, to excuse this. story. it Js necessary to cast our minds’ back to the 1930s and recall the id of background ag t which the two principal chardc- ters grew up. . “At that time all Kinds of vio- Jent opinions were being ex- pressed, The circumstances of the Spanish civil war, with Fas- cists and Communists backing: rival forces, divided British and. indeed Zuropean opinion acutely.' “,. . With the Hitler-Stalin pact ideological beliefs exerted ‘a pull which sometimes’ proved ‘stronger than patriotism. 7% |. x This had a particularly disturbing effect ‘upon young people.” ‘ , fos The Foreign Secretary went on to-explain that “this clash of loyalties—buried in 1941 by the alliance with Russia—was re- vived when the war ended and there came an estrangement with Russia. Thus it was that men cpuld belfound in Britain who cbuld | put the interests of another eointry hefore thase of theirlown COM Y Derore Larose Of tneirewn and commit the horrible chime of treachery.” ~ __— tance. Anything she knew before Maglean left she must have got fr him. 4 “Bhe had no means of obtatn- ing] any information after fhe . left} and whether she remaiped - in this cquntry or left it mide Ware Htbts! AF. nae oe "a Tels MUL ULC CLUS, a" aN Seana 5a a 7 rh ar re | Cn es . A oe + Tt te Te . ‘ of : “ fy 7 ed i ae ‘ass ~ roe “XB Eg eee fone ‘ OP a Eg eee AR ag MI Nes Og aS me i 3 We Ce a ° . * “ id an . we cor QMS Sete a Dp nie ee Rene ede “Sama ae we “ot . *