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» a a fr this city, which was known in the Foreign oe, ought to have been alt with vears ago. He ould have been sacked com- ane ” There should be an nouiry into “ covering-up.” Mr. Richard Crossman (Lab., Coventry East} said Mr. Maemillan should resign if he took responsibility for the White Paper. “If, after four years, this * tissue of palpable -dalf-truths and contradictions is the best they can produce, therf the impression of cover-’ ing-up is more strongly sub- stantiated than ever.” he said. The crime of the Foreign Office was first to turn a dlind Alfa 5 eve to Maclean’s deficiencies for too long: then, wheh he had gone. to prefer depart- mental loyalty to their duty to . the country. Mr, Rupert Speir (Hexham) was the first Tory to call for ALFRED ROBENS Told of raid on flat a an Inquiry into security—7' it would reassure the Hose and the country,” he said. ; Another Conservative, Lieutenant-Coionel J. K. Cor- | deaux (Nottingham Central) echoed this view. “1 do not think that whitewashing is going to satisfy the ple of this country about this case,” he sard, i A committee of inquiry - formed of judicial members of the Privy Council, sitting in secret, Would help to reassure them, : Mr. F. Tomney (Lab., Ham- | mersmith North) warned : “Nobody believes the content or the essence of the White Paper—and that goes for the men in the pubs, the factories, the workshops and the clubs.” " SLUR ON THE PHILBYS Mr: R. C. Brooman- White {Con,, Rutherglen) said it must be’ left to Colonel Lipton’s conscience to straighten out what the cost of his remarks would be in personal suffe ng to the wife, children, irie and relatives of Mr. Philby. Sir Anthony Eden, replymg to the debate, said: “I think this hag been g very sad day - for the Foreign Service; a very ‘sad day for our country, too, because the reputation of the. . Foreign Service is part of our reputation.” He had been asked, he said, why Maclean was not dealt with in the same way as Fuchs. “As I understand it, the trouble about Maclean was {hat there was not anything like that amount of evidence to enable him to be treated at that stage as Fuchs was. “But it was hoped to get enough evidence against Mac- jean tp do so.” Makins ‘was not checking’ AIR. MACMILLAN made | the strange comment in his Commons speech yester- day that it was “quite unteoe” that Sir Roger Makins had been respons:ble for’: checking or clearing Donald Maclean. *“Such a statement is false and grossly unfsir to Sir Roger Makins,” ‘said the Foreign Stcretary. et Lora Reading ‘told’ the ds on October 25: - very experienced Under- tary was watching Maclean eictitats with a special closeness towards the end of the time before his disappearance, just to see if there was anything which in-i dicated that he was not perform- ing his duties satisfactorily.” The same day the Foreign Office named Sir Roger—now Ambassador in Washington—as the Under-Secretary in quastion. All that the Foreign Pifice spokegman would say last ments before you but we cannot help, The answer will have to. eomea from the House, iii jtoo, vanished, ight was: “You have the two ftate- . o ” +4" rat wal mics pet ve me Raat Mere oe he men and e myster. TT was on Friday, May °25, “ 1651, that DONALD MACLEAN, head of the American Department of . - the Foreign Office, left his ‘ room in. Whitehall for the, _— : - last time, A few tours iater_ he had a meeting with GUY BURGESS, a Second Secre- tary in the Junicr branch ot the Foreign Service. Together they boarded a cross-Channel steamer at Southampton, Next morn ing they landed at St. Malo. Then they disappeared, Maclean's wife, Melinda, went to Switzerland with her three children more than two years later. They, Their trail fed to the Soviet Zone of Austria. Petrov, the Soviet spy who gave himself up in _ Australia, has since said that, -Maclean and Burgess were ‘beth recruited as soiesl for Russia while “they werd at Cambridge. They fed wien Jearned = they under suspicion, he ‘said. * = ewe? * wade © in :