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Me ad A a ee wt = “oe “es ™ : can a. 1551 Former Foreign Office - security. We know what happened in the’ case of Burgess and Maclean. 1 take the view thal neither of these men should i ° ever have been employed in the Foreign Office in view of the reports which were a + | 1 { ine Ceti Ri ak BR ne cath oar Sone a . * fir: forthcoming about their conduct. -I have inquired into this matter very carefully yerin osces be deem afid have read much about it, and it seems ; ; 7... | fo me that what was known about both TE RETF oT fuer: fro Burgess and Maclean was more than enough to justify, not the penalty of re- signation, but the penalty of their expulsioa before they had held their for even a year. Maclean's habit of getting habi-- tually drunk and of letting off steam in i é + 0 sonal om, : A be om st - vege) pubs and clubs are things which should. os prt: not have been tolerated for one moment. . tous They Would not have been tolerated in . PF some pubs and clubs that I have known. 2 en | Matican would quickly have been pit i -} fo his place. ojc3 2 yp seor es to fi cr ? ar This country is faced with the responsi- poo bility of looking again at the method of we ee “Fe ore recruitment to the Foreign Service from History can teach us some sharp and. .. . fee tn ee this numerically small circle of people potent lessons about what has been going : goof ool coming from the public schools. From on in international modern politics since I dogs! my slight contact with the foreign embas- 1939, The United States have been mea- oo sics, I cannot say from whence the dif- tioned several times in this debate. Let a - é ye ferent secretaries have come or to what” us take the case of Algar Hiss. He was . ~ — - ots kind of school they went, and neither do ¢ first brought to the notice of President y - we pond 1 know what sort of background they { Roosevelt in 1939 by Adolph Berle, and ¥. Bez born. . had; but to my way of thinking there |’ at that time President Roosevelt ° coo WP is something wrong with our great public] poohed the idea and said that it was im- t< tea eb BT schools. For instance, I cannot undet-] possible, The activities of Algar Hiss Jee k: Rot: stand why they do_not send more men} were further brought to the notice of ns vos into the scientific industrial professions | President Truman and the same thing Boe wee Beeb Ff where they are so badly needed. 1.47.2. happened. But who or what was Algar oo tei ch de When these boys have gone through | Hiss?. He was one of the First Secte- > an fete t ‘ the schools Sad he universities, having . aries io the American State Department. _ Brea wee $f a ae seceived a good education in the arts and When we ‘realise what tremendous Bo gs By bod bruce: graces, and then look round for some- power these people can wield, when we - ce lade thing to do, do they qualify by virtue of semember what happened at Yalta and 7 j POW E . examinations for the eivil Service of the how it affected the politics of Europe and 3 ba. fe foe et Foreign Service? Do they qualify on the elsewhere, especially the United States Boece vf §22 i! gr basis of a desire to make a career; be-~ and Britain, when we remember the ™ . wee cause of an impetus within themselves. alties that Yalta imposed on the. Ss ESS {ie “Rita: °. %6+--d0° something © good - for the foreign policies of the Western world, and - oe eee country? Do th wish to make when we realise that behind President: de pret res e career for themselves,’ or do Roosevelt sat Algar Hiss—a self-confessed eo pee en apa ep gere er cy qualify - use want some-"” perjurer and Soviet espionage apent—that ree “ eee thin q ‘dc? If after they are trained is 2 very sobering thought. mae tay Bene oe CTE in skills and arts and graces, they, = u's dg not desire McCarthyism in this Toe Bp enter the service for the sake of some": country, But, in defence of our liberties eee re thing to do, the country has no use for and our people, we have the right to ask pte geae EST? them, because inevitably they will fail - for an inquiry into the Foreign Office and le je-tgee- do whatever Job they take One our security services and the way they ern fo shel “If the accusations made by my hon. work. 1 do not think we can depend any _ Beate ria Friend the Member for Coventry, East‘ Jonger upon the established system and. Tags: ze _ :? ¢* a+ uba Pa ait a 3 [ive taihs << Soo a aap oie : = . von 8 wet wie Fg nae irate ve “2- CM MM a oe ee te ie at + pei gaa Fpjatreti gamer yin es « & at -_ . . ae - eA ele a eden oe . = as 1 - - . hm Lee cee Rae coe ee oe. teri eg te BE ee . ‘= . _ 1 NOVEMBER 1955 Officials -Disappearanct 1553 are substantiated, there ts something seri- ously wrong with our meth af selection, recruitment, eatry, promotion and general direction. card the Foreign Secretary, when discussing security arrangements, refer to reports from the ambassador downwards about . his staff. Today the world § so locked | in the conflict of a cold war that every ; possible contingency has to be cov ‘ho investigates the top man in the first place, or is he never investigated? <! “It is all véry well saving, as has been | said today, that our liberty is a cious thing which we must not discard when making sure that our freedom ig pot destroyed. But, in a world where such forces are ranged against us, can we seriously depend on our archaic laws ja . deciding whether or not we shall arrest oc _ interrogate & person on suspicion? _ Does i that position hold good in modern politics and in the atmosphere of a cold — 7 aT a wwe ue : i ' war as we know it? "25 62-4 Te MEM eben ot