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re eee LN ee reer = : eal ee ft Per Sarre eee en ely i, | Lia ™ ~ L + ia i of Soo at dite ad eo. Lt Sys ea ete wee ye aero 1597 Former Foreign Office. 7 NOVEMBER 1955 Ofiiat Dapsumaie 1598 -- ee “hae eigen ee ts mia nppmmantaar. erent BPP 2 le" EP ek = "Mr ©. R. Hobson (Keighley): Hear, hear. cle ee ee, ' Mr. Brooman-Whitet That is ‘an im- portant point 11 is obviously true that the judgment was at fault. Loe - Me, Hobson: The ‘record of Burgess was well known before ever he went into the Foreign Office. That is the grasvamen af the ehorae af manu han SMemhere an VY Serge ae the b SAUL. SORES OES this side and op the hon. Member's own side of the House. We want to know what people were doing ever to start the Man. ari Be ad kL OOM Mr 2088 we Mr. Brooman-¥ehlite : The point I was making is that after the war there was a great change in the whole system with the reforms instituted by Mr. Ernest Bevia —the great change in the whole structure mf ah. Da-ein en Canine a os a Ge iné Forciga Scivice, ihe BFinLiig Wi of a consular service, and ihe sest of #. The numbers were vastly increased. In those circumstances, it ts quite obvious that the senior personnel must have fost some of the contact which had previously existed befweea members of the Foreign Service and that they had lost the istimate touch with and the intimate knowledge of their subordinate staff. 41 may well be that the Foreien Office was slow in re- Organising itself, in jnstituting the sysiem of confidential reports and similar things which bave now been instituted; but again one must say that the reasons which have been given today seem convincingly io carry the point thal the necessary reforms have now been made. In present circumstances, the difficulties atising from that major reorganisation have been over- come. To my mind, no evidence has been advanced to the contrary.’ Timea ile rh _ ie AO ay, oS PED ae PS ning short and J. must abbreviate my Femarks, yo wit cs 3cyw nik MyAleTy i The whole tenor of the debate has been _ becrets is conditioned by (Mr. H. Morrison) that there thould be “* ~ a judicial was a “near miss,” that the Security Sere _vice had narrowed down to Maclean an; inquiry in which there had been 6,000 suspects, and that Maclean just escaped ~- the trap at the last moment. I suggest thal iv is for that very reason thal there ~ ought to be @ judicial inquiry. ous thw -- ees - "Te must be remembered that the atte |. tude of our allies throughout the world, and particularly the America, to the confidence in our security arrangements and our ability to ensure that their secretg, “"/ imparied to us as friendly and co-opera- tive allies, will not go to a foreign Power Because of either the jaxity or the ineffi- .. ciency of our Security Services. There fore, the proposal to have a. judicial inquiry is one which. I hope, the Prime Minister will not lightly turn aside to night. I hope that give ht some consideration, ~— 0 -7-+--4 ‘ What we want is security” without McCarthyism. J very much regret that .. one of my hon. Friends mentioned in the dcbate the name of an individual other than Maclean and Burgess, because that ts exactly what happened in the United States. ‘Administration refused themselves to tin- quik into a aumber of rumours and McCarthyism arose, and if the Trumaa Administration had pot brushed aside the allegations which were being made aad had examined their own security atrange- MInents, then McCarthyism could - never have been born. | McCarthy stepped into the vacuum created by che refusal of the United States Administration 0 took into inquiry into the Security Sere -~ vices, and he produced as his main argd- ~ ment for that that the Maclean incident . nited States of exchange of alomi¢ ---- eic fear of pe ¢ will undertake to | t was because the United States allegations about their security | in striking the right balance between security and jadividval liberty. I ore and the case of Algar Hiss. 4-26: cnww s2oce.” {hat the feeling of the country and of the J agree with the Foreign Sec ; e oseane : : : ; en Secretary that -.- House is behind the Government in ensur- - the ae ndard of our Foreign Service is. high, and that the Foreign Service is one “""**~ hited ing that we do not depart from our tadi- their own arrangements.. We ought 40 72; <.. t learn {rom the Jessons of the United States - w tional attention to the rights of: the : individual and the maintenance . of personal Liberty.3l a6 ¢ er ber nst eet T Mr. Allred Robens (Blyth): The hon. Gentleman the Member for Rutherglen (Mr. Brooman-White) has resisted the proposal put forward by my right hon. niend the Member for yD7 Sham, South of which we can be very proud. - it is 7°” all the more (o be regretied that we have the cage of Burgess and Maclean. The scr. . u case has often been referred to as the mystery of the missing diplomats but-it has not been a mystery for many ycars now, and reading the White Paper is rather like reading the back files of one of our - daily newspapers. The story has not bees e .) . prem ean iti AGN nL er ec let th me oe TEE, A Bertie eee ae Fe . to stress the extremely difficult problems + - eee . er awe OE a ee Te 7