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deca a oye nor 4 900: question and 6 are moved inh owe — Express Parliamentary Reporter ME HAROLD MACMILLAN, the Foreign Secretary, told M.P.s debating the Maclean- Burgess case fast ‘night Me 900 Foreign Office officials have been checked for ecurity since 195l—and as a result four “have been sked to leave” a and six more have: been moved . or have resigned. ' My. Maemillan also di rap © iy mactMinan ais " last 10 years 59 officials have been compulsoril retired for “incompetence.” So, he said, the Foreign Office is not “ - dosed shop seeking to protect failures.” The new system ot checks since 1951, he said—it applies to all Government departments’ in which security is involved—* ‘has enormously strengthened the | security system.” And he refused a general inquiry , into the Foreign Office. ' * SMALL CONFERENCE’ Mr. Herbert Morrison appealed to the Prime Minister to overrule this. “There is a case for an inquiry,” ‘he said, “(and inquiry there must be.” And then,,as the six-hour . debate ended, Sir’ e é a : art - Anthony “Eden proposed that * ‘a small conference GLE Privy Councillors "—two or three from each side of the* House—should examine security in the public § services \ and decide whether further precausions.. should ay ken ‘to reduce the risk of treachery.’ : nae The Prime Minister rejected ,the idea. of an ‘inguiry? judges. “Privy Councillors are MPS,".he said, “and ti $s is a question for Pariiam 1.8: Mt cya tips eb ihe. iain tig ed: 4 a a a | | i : ‘wald that the metho of “odsitive vetting’ enfarced * : singe 1951—they go into} an goffitial’s background since his Papas es ave fengyroest hia. “schooldays—are Suse Bi Seine but, inevitable, 7 on