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Mention has been made of how in paragraph 3 it talks about Maclean being the head of the American Department and says that it does not deal a - fF With major problems of Anglo-American Felations. Paragraph 21 says that one explanation may be that- Maclean ob- served that he was no longer receiving certain types of secret papers o7 cL. Tt appears, once again, to hon, Mem- bers on both sides of the House and to the people in the clubs and pubs that here there has been some covering up b bureaucracy. The story has been hear and read of, of Departments where the bureaucrats have attempted to “cover up” after initial mistakes have been made, and it has been sugeested that there is a feeling among the people who are in the same Service that they mast assist those who have made the error to prevent them being entirely shown up. - -_. - Tagree that we cannot have, and would Bot want to have, is this country a secret service having any executive power. Must Test upon the criminal law and the executive power of the police. If we had a secret service which had full executive power obviously it would degenerate into something which nobody in this country would want. Security is the real part of the problem, and this is a matier in which security was bad. J bave listened to what most bon. Members have said about the Foreign Service and these people who are members of it. 1 do not agree with much that has been-said--- ek gE dt appears to me that security. is the failure bere. In secarity it ig not go much money -or measures that matter. What matiers is having the right mae at the head of the security service to ensure that the best security this -country can have is provided. = sien: uo tone or 9S pw. MO pew fote meow err “"Mr. Malcolm MacPherson (Stirling acd a7 we y: ee ia! Fi Falkirk Burghs): % must say that after a ob mom eeeven 5 ; sinning with which I atid ans eecen Tt eros ae lf a A EME wi We § I BHM AICHE A a Be rhe found much in what the hon. Member for > cr ir ee Ge uDpe ... A . 7 : .f “we ~- ; ley ‘ ee ee a ania Pa ealial ed J NOVEMBER 1955 — Officiats—Disappoarance ester stl -~ a anes 5 at spre eed alas nla ana Sch Sat Lan es = pein, ( hd ge a ttle Pe cae eal Mngt te oe Sete Tle a — .. eat Al fee ee Te woe aa : sa Ne . @*-: Bo pee mene 1360 Epsom (Mr. Rawlinson) said Tater with which I did agree. J thought that the statement by the Foreign etary oa the rights of a person under suspicion was much preferable to the opening state. ments in the speech of the hon. Member.’: However, my remarks will be concerned not with the security side of ‘the matter ‘ but with the question with whom we Foreign Office. -. _* wee ee Be eile € “Tt has alseady ‘been suggested that the . Fortign Office ought to be grouped to-: gether with the Civil Service as 2 whole.: As a matter of principle, I am inclined to are ‘concernéd in the | 3 agree with that suggestion. 1 take roughly the same line about the wartime reforms ‘ as that taken by my hon. Friend the Mem. ber for Coventry, East (Mr. Crossman), incinle “4 ; tfan at In principle, it ts e sound ides t gt ah inat ing * Foreign Service should be part of the : Civil Service as a whole: but there will ' be practical difficulties. One of the diffi- culties which has faced the Civil Service as a whole in recent years has been that of getting the right people for the admin- istrative class, which corresponds to the branch in the Foreign Service—Branch “ A”—to which Maclean belonged. The situation has already been stated by the Civil Service Commissioners to be one of considerable difficulty, but if ¥ can believe” recent reports it has this year become ex. tremely bad. so bad that the number of candidates acceptable has not been equal fo the number of vacancies... es . In the Foreign Service, on the other hand, if one can take the evidence of an article in the Observer {isierey. there | seem 10 have been this‘ year quite sufficient candidates for the vacancies. . Even if one skims away half of them with the first qualifying examination and assumes that they were not serious candi- dates, there were still ample to fill the vacancies. lf we merge the Foreign Ser- vice with the Civil Service as a whole, le - us make no mistake that very shortly we shall run into an acute problem of staffing the upper branches of the Foreiga Service.. - " This difficulty is not confined to the _ Civil Service. It is one that-concerns all, or nearly all, the public There are just a few exceptions. business is booming people with the offer of high salaries a extraordinarily good pros Whea and attracting. : ad. . we find : difficulty in attracting scientists to the : public services and administrative people: . wre, ‘ 2 lie me a ge A a