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tease of, ae Fae ge ary ett a Pa Se Me, 0 eg Se EE CF REE oC ER ER ORE AR bl ee a Ce a Sec es one i bene nas ’ . rt Pe Sr Le ae a en ae i woe UD pepe ag Oe ee en | + tte oc Ritsepeabted ane aa Zp eins ty f fa Former (¢ ign Office rat people are moral, but that “B® lass people are immoral? ho What is even queerer is that when ector McNeil asked whether Burgess puld be put up into the “A™ class the gquest was resisied. Why? Tf the younds were failings of personal charac- er he should not bave been either “A” “B*—{An Hon. Memper: “Or *C™ -*D'.") As an hon. Friend says, or gC” or *D,” and if he was merely being :dged on his intellectual merits, he ould have been in the A class or owhere. . ; * This is proof that the Foreign Office $as worried about Burgess, but not wor- ied enough, because he had already got is foot inside the door of the élite. There ‘¢ have the two of them, Maclean right $n the élite of the élire and Burgess push- §ng his way up by means of some some- what unsavoury personal connections which perhaps got him in in the first place. A competent establishment officer whould bave forbidden Burgess ever to have been appointed, and should certainly have thought twice about giving Maclean, . only three months after his nervous - breakdown—notice that it was only three amonths after the breakdown—the tappointment as a head of a Depariment. It is no good the Foreign Secre- tary or the Prime indeed, my right hon. Friend the Member for Lewisham, South, telling Perhaps Y am, and perha [Fe that I am a suspicious ope Of Person, . understa ar the average man in the street, when told that this is a true and satisfactory" Rexplanation, knows perfectly well that whatever clever men produced this type of bunkum, it is always for the same reason. In Britain, influential people do bot want to have too much interrogation oF inquiry into what went on in the Foreign Office élite, ..-2 0 seetenee -4- The crime in the Foreign Office was, first, to turn a blind eye to Maclean's deficiencies for far too tong: to prefer private friendship and belief in him to public duty, and ihen when he bad gone, to prefer Departmental loyaky to duty to this country. We are a democracy and we really have the right to know the facts when something has gone wrong... - - I want, in conclusion, to say two things briefly about the proposals for an inquiry which have come from this side of _uc@ J the a 7 NOVEMBER 1955 Officials—. B poccronce er nd - this, because I lived in this éort of world. © Serectatle in the ordinary wove he fe not detectable in the ordinary way; he is not . | = i] t ' aa : ea le House. First of all, I will say a wo ? about our proposals for an inquiry inte 2°07 7"... security. After the Foreign Secretary's =. | speech I feel much Jess need for this in- , uiry than I did before the debate. But.” the main problem in this case. The main -- ;.° ~,-- roblem is ‘the establishment of the : Foreign Office, and the conduct thal was ---2-224 committed in the Foreign Office.” ~~~. - . é t Still on security, F have one point to > 277774 + aan make in addition to what my right hon, ae | $a “ Friend said. I think the Foreign Secre- | OO oh <3 tary was absolutely right in saying that | Sie ee we are back in the Elizabethan age and | tee that treason has become a sibility :°T MS end would say that it is a possibility for every ~~~. ---) 1 P¥-2. 77 thoughtful man. Everyone who faces the’ - =~" ; Se world's dilemmas today finds his national loyalties in conflict with others. We have talked about Russia, but there might be a conflict between our national loyalty 0: and American interests. Russians are _ not the only people who have secret ser- vices. I can conceive of a time when an Englishman might think if his duty to . pass information on to America, feeling had a moral duty to do so, and then, |. ; Jater, he might well be proved to be we tC traitor if the world went the wrong way ->-~-—_. for him * Cee ge The Foreign Secretary is right. Thisis ~~ Minister wilt 8 ree that policemen are really no g detect the type of person who is nota |” a spy selling himself for money. For this .... _ task one has to have an understanding ~_ - ” of Marxism and other philosophic prob. =... - lems of the modern world. I should feel & great deal more confident if J had been ~ fold that we are to have a heads of M.LS not ex-policemen but people who have - -.0-7 f- studied deeply the ideologies of the __... modera world and cas put themselves in =*—-* the place of young men and know what -.--> ips they are feeling. We want & new type of person for this task. The Jess we have <3 °"?74° RE of security the better, provided that the feeatita nf ie te reall Arct enta . Secondly, I would remind the Houss ~~ [pw that this searching for spies is really a. relatively small part of security. Ning" ~--"-- tenths of security means security against — carelessness, security to prevent informa. tion going to the enemy, either because ~ of their technical power to break down = ~~ erence tee ke oF. Ee ere a we 2 ee -, ee me ee Le . — ome Lo Tm Cd ean ai © ak taereenl - ee ie Sg em a as ead Beer et } i then, I never believed that security was - >") & a basic problem. Surely, then, the Prime .. -. . |p: or this job. We haveto ~~ ifr eae Tage ee pe ee “oe ens on a = Vit ER var at | een i AAR oats enema