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we wets PSs cai ens BBG ae ggg ( ormer Fone Office | J. NOVEMBER 19537 Offciels—Disappedraica 1600 39 e ; . _ . . . ~ 4 —<- * . toe s Po + . a a oe iE pot + DMR. Romens} 6+ torsiccste tt ier appears to be asking who put them there, = ¥ wR Ta He F BE ot added to today, except that the Foreign $= The right hon. Gentleman is making a bo tere Bee Secretary termed them “traitors and mistake in turning this into a political ie pores ; that i; has become clear that they are party issue, _ Maclean went into the - F at ee me behind the lron Curtain, and, presumably, Forcign Office in 1935. This is no a. 45 aa working for a forcign Government. . — question of When these People wete (F ny Sanne ‘The Foreign Secretary said he accepted P24zed. This is a question of the esta G . iy a the doctrine of Ministerial responsibility, Helment of the Foreign Office, pPecause ° ‘ "7 OF. and none of us would want to depart Te Etime Minister docs not make these. a ee it vets from that doctrine, but the doctrine of #PPOInIments.,.6 sre 94 eq PSEA “oy $ ee wi Ministerial] responsibility. to be accepted The Foreign Secretary does not make = oem fo the full, presupposes that it is the duty all these appointments. The appoint: epeone it. oo bape s. ue of Ministers’ advisers—and that it should ments afe recommended to Ministers on = aera oN have beep the duty of Ministers’ advisers the basis of the advice of their advisers.’ cope perme" "fin the past-to keep Ministers informed The Minister dozs not go through the list. an gett of what it is important they should know, and say, “We will now promote Jack oo ¥ be Ut is strange that the Security Services Jones as head of the Department.” He : a can have investigated 6,000 suspects and takes advice. Y repeat that there is a feels - a re yet the first time my sight hon. Friend ing in the House and amon ca dygmer Upset hey core RR Ca a a ce eae boy ee " i, , ' ed ~ ~ PR het ery : 3 1g the public cee eres ghee of: the Member for Lewisham, South, who outside that there is this “cover up” ene i Was then the Foreign Secretary, knew any- within the Forcign Office and I say t UL. RS ape thing about this was on the very day this is a maticr which ought to be - . i : Maclean and Burgess left this country. investigated. |. tabete oes edt . an -- 1 say there is something vrong about Mr. Nutting indicated dissent, ied an 7 we Oe & security system that works within a ° me eg ge IN = | vacuum and works without some con- ~ Mr. Robens: The fight hon. Gentle- a oe sideration of the responsibilities of its 930 gocs oa shaking his head. Let us + litical chief. About 6,000 suspects were have a took at Maclean and at one Poing dealt with over a long period. incident in Cairo, oop ieee pete: Therefore, it seems to me that the Secree | What ha pened? What does the White tary of State should have been informed Paper say happened? 1 Say$ Fo leatiteet # very Jong time before that that this «3, May, 1950, while serving at” His investigation was going on. Doles, Majesty’s Embassy, Cairo, Maclean was guilly . : : i oS of serious misconduct and suffered a form of ._ 3 agree entirely with my hon. Friend breakdown which was attributed to overwork the Member for Coventry, East (Mr. and excessive drinking”. , 6 osey wpe et Crossman) when he says that Burgess and = What are the facts about one case? 4 Maclean as such are pot mporiant agy will not deal with all of them—about a. Jonger. What is important is the Sessons Gpht that he had with an Egyptian guard, fo be learned from them. Two things about the breaking of an Embassy cal- emerge. One is the question of estab- B ay Jeague's leg on a boating trip. ¢, ceeeine fishment within the Foreign Office. Ie J 8 on. td * bes ‘ge wted does not matter what the Foreiga Secre- , Maclean and a friend, both® ia .& -- + ary may have said eartier today, or drunken state, Went into the flat of a girl dodeed what the Prime Minister will gay Who was the librarian of the United States . ater, the fact is that the public and many Embassy in Cairo. She was absent. They People in the House are quite sure that forced their way in and then began to within the Forciga Office there is a close dcink all that was available. Having done circle of “cover up™ for one’s friends, ‘that, they pushed a fot of the girl 5 eee ag nc 1; lothing down the lavatory. they smashed i _, Mr. Nutting indicated dissent.:°*-- ws: the table and they Knocked into the bath : met Ne, Robens : The right hon. Gentleman a Decay sad of marble xed 8S & she H po ftwecmap shakes his head, but if that is not the case O¥ET the radiator. tk broke the bath t wr Qt “oy + ae Ne EMIS RE 28 Faery ee Sy SE on eld i ‘ a teri a yor ne i. rh} as ee ; ¢ ea. : rn oT 2 errs aa Ve — RS SE eeg , ‘ret % yet wet a , : ‘ z ar of . o ’ “y . how can it be that a couple of drunks, q Thy returned to a fiat in thé same build- . eet ke Eee couple of homosexuals well-known in the ing belonging fo a colicazue. Maclean Sn pte ems ee df Ion at was with a man friend, and he had homo- ; Or City, could for so long occupy important xual tendencies when in drink. |. 4* .- re rere Stee posts in the Forcign Office? There is ng *? 7 ” eA Cote See a mena ---- oMmercial organisation Anywhere that - As the Minister of State shook his head, . | omemee ef Would not have fired them years aga. Yam now giving the facts. As twas - Tae Te Siuerruption] ... 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