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es - : _ ad atin my oes "emphasized that British secu- | 5 tlon In Weflanding some kint-ypiily arrangements a probe. tightened progressively ‘since MacLean, head of the For- the Burgess-MacLean case eign Office’s American Depart- 7 ments he fled. nde ie oe government said Harold Philby “ hind the Jron Curtain. Burgess,|—former Foreign Office official who had been attached to the/D@med as “third man” in the ; _|case-—-was known to have had British Embassy Pe ash ing: fommunist connections at one . me clplining at the time. . . | Vladimir Petrov, a Soviet dip-lyFonitim caded” heweves lomat who deserted to the West, there was no evidence to prove said recently that both men had| piiipy tipped off MacLean and been recruited as Communist Bur . gess that they were under Agents in the 1930s. suspicion before they fled, Nearly two years after their Macmillan said: disappearance, MacLean's! «“ajthough the circumstances American-born wife, Melinda,lare explainable in terms of & vanished from Switzerland with|tipof, there was not necessar- their three children. Their trail ily a tipoff. A serious and pro- was traced to the Iron Curtain|tracted investigation into this border in Augtria, She is be-'nossiblity has been undertaken Neved to have joined her hus-tand is proceeding even at the band. ‘present time.” The present whereabouts of But Herbert Morrison, who Burgess and MacLean have not was Foreign Secretary in the been definitely established, al- Labor government when Bur- though there have been reports gess and MacLean disappeared, | . . Placing them in Moscow or in a grumbled: “I am inclined to om (Satellite country. "| think they were tipped off by! — ; Although acknowledging that somebody and, if so, 1 wish we! the government had not acted could find the somebody.” promptly, Eden warned against: Philby -was first assistant jeopardizing British liberties in ‘secretary in Washington when building up defenses against'/Burgess and MacLean fied. He spies. Je “Was security officer in the ’ “British justice over the cen- British Embassy there when \Burgess was called home. Mac-| o In the Commons debate, the ee ~~ turies has been based on- the principle that a man has to be; millan said Philby had been a} presumed innocent until he bejfriend of Burgess in their. proved guilty,” the Prime Min-} UndéPBraduate days. — ister said. “Have we got to aban- don « that ” principle? Perhaps, worst of all; are we to make an: exception: for, , political ~.of+! . tomy fenges? . ad : . . | Bota n and Macmillar - oe eet ra Rte, Ne aul oo yo" 1 tage foes ee ee ral eh eee tat Sarees Nae s ty ‘ Non Be ety at ht cod t os a ae ee , . t #y kt i we i a, a cna! we a roe aie a to woe