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* Eira, 5, Meclean coolly went on] working as if nothing hapbened, said |good-bye to his wife, had caught the trdin home to Tatsfield, Ker, ame back by traln to London, and adred the walling Burgess outside his club, : shot Bul Lat hite Paper is wrong when it says that they drove tegether from Tatsfleld. to Southampton, , The evidence about the car being hired from a garage near Baker-street, London, is quite definite. By midnight they were aboard the Falaise and sailing for | 6t. Malo, in France. How were they able to get ciear without being stopped? qhe White Paper ia uncenvine- ng. It is true, as any detective knows. that it is pretty well im- possible to: keep a 24-hours-a-day watch on anybody. But what about. Southampton? NO WARNING wee erue,.they were legally free to @q abroad. But why had the pot authorities not been weaned? hy were their names, strice they were suspecis, not in the black list. book whith every Pags- port Control Officer has? Tt would have been quite pos. sible to detain and delay them on oné pretext or another. In any case, the fact. of their belting would have been known at once. As it was, they were lucky, May 25 was a Friday. Maclean Was Nob missed until the Mbn- ¥. Burgess was on. leave, . By the time the alarm wes gen, all trails were cold, * ul that ts only one item thy record af ine ficient security ee jACLEAN: CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE work which the White Paper dis- closes. * First reports of a leakage from the Foreign Office to: the Soviet authorities had come in Janua- ary, 1948. The “highly secret. but wide- spread-and protracted inquiries ” were started then, Protracted they certainly ware. Two years passed before suspicion fell on the two. ‘FANTASTIC at seems fantastic. Both mén nad personal records which should. have suggested un- reliability. . Burgess had already been reprimanded for ~ “ indiscreet talk about secret matters." Their Communist: affiliations while at Cambridge should have been known. What was MIT6 about? No wonder that, as # ‘result, Mr. Morrison set up & commitice to consider the security checks plied to members of the reign Service, and that the ctiecks have since been tightened Bu ut two remarkable horses “FULL L DEBATE IN- PARLIAMENT had left the stable—after yea of activity inside it—before the door was shut, ONE HOPES REALLY Is. The White Paper is coyly dis- creel about one paint. [t records that Burgess’ first Government job, from 1939 to 1640, was in “one of the war propaganda. organisations.” Why try to suppress the fact that. it was a branch of Military~ Intelligence? @ Last night the Foreign Office dropped an official curtain of the Maclean-BurBess affair for the next month. Tt announced that Mr, Harpld Macmillan, the Foreign tary, further information. should bet had decided that no. t given and no questions answered . about it until Parliament hes : ‘had the opportunity to discuss - the White Paper, INVESTIGATION | Time will be made avaliable for a full debate as S00n as MPs reassemble at the end of October. Liewt-Colonel Marcus Ligton, Labour MP for Brixton; to ask the Prime October 35 to set up a ~ Committee to Investigate, 7} ly a Minister] on. - lect a ne ee gr a : nel