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~ <°RED FIFTH: COLUM an, ntinued from Page 1 like that bver since schoo! and ary standard of oonduct in this| There should be a” rule that and gel qismustingly deune ies | them open tp blackmall should not certain club.” Lord Astor said. be used i on Deenarite afhelals “He twice engaged in drunken ae ot ke a vans rts brawls with Left-Wing friends, in frex EB ave jaken Mae) p an one of which they were rolling on thes Urgess and Maclean when In each case the cause| they were leaving the country, of the attack was that they had|Lord Astor queried whether it is ; “ ied it myself," he said, This. said Lord Astor, was thel,,.©, , Head of the American Depart-(" 9nd went to London Airport ment of the Foreign Office, without a passport. I was palitely BURGESS Drunken, dirty Diq the Forelgn Office know "THE Marquess oF Reabrna. i e Astor sugmested that if they were ister ie tne ite. Foreisa ignorant of them it was hard to Office’ did not’ know the ful] Siuken ooty eetOa lve in] stone ‘of Macleans drinking : outs, . He baileved that the Pore‘en ce took the view that what was 1 . dbne in spare time was the busi- |e! thay?" he asked. “Are 85 of the person concerned. ess. Lord Astor satd| detail dhem te repor back on drunken, dirty, and|whal h@ cava and dass?" __Jexually defective." He had been “Tt stems to me that a great “at i ate these . facts ? - a ead ‘geal ey . . os eo! wee a eae ce Te me ag Ee oe RATAN TTS Bi teed get Pray Se Bie SS eg eet SPAS SSP RAS ES Se ES Sa ae Jag ne Prete altace we _ ae ay many people in the days Burgess and Maciean disappeared have been dining out quite freely - on reminiscences of all they know about them when they were still in the Foreign Office, “It would have been much more In the public interest if these people had come forward and to'd @ Foreign Office™ during the time when that Information could} - . - have been put to proper use.” The report te be mado—on|-~ oa eecurity by a oommittee of And “ counse lore, Sets hice saic. ; ; w no @ pu ‘Or. a Subject to debate. : a , Oo .. , che whole ablect of the report is to concentrate on the present stale and possible future improve ment of our security services.” ‘}he said. “and anything !esa suit. able for pubication and debate it wou'd be dificult to Imagine" DIRTY LINEN | No more than needed © After Lord Reading had spoken, Lorn Astor said: “The noble| - lord is not the only member of this House whe knows a great. deal more than he chooses to say. “ Most of us know a Rood deal more of what happened, but we do not particularly want to air more dirty linan in public than is necessary,” . a ad mad@ no pretence about it, people whose conduct would bring heir country into disrepute or lay . Wi possible to leave Britain without Left + Wing passport. XE told by the Scotland Yard officer that I could not leave. . “T told him he had no right ta . stop me and he agreed—but I could not leave the country.” “How could the Foreign Office OU lo have] néop'e posted to watch him 8* dverv party he goes to and There was more than one Maclean ineident in Egypt,” in- cluding his behaviour towards a member of the women's services In an aeroplane. He said: "J could give .]. but there ig ag oe. . point in.going into this.” ° . i! ord Astot said he was shocked . that there would be no opport Ml ity to hear more of what -the Pavy Counsellors’ committer Re- ‘cide. He would raise the matters of security. Foreign Office recrpit. . Ment, and conduct at a later date, - - ele oe TH Le emg on a ote