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MLS MAY FACE AN INQUIRY ‘Phone call to Burgess’ revealed NEWS CHRONICLE REPORTER ‘HE Cabinet is believed to have spent almost all it 2-hour 20-minute meeting yesterday discussin, the storm raised by the Foreign Office handling of thi Burgess-Maclean affair. So much pusiness remained » be done afterwards that Sir Anthony Eden called a second “abinet for this morning. Two inquiries are now being anded—into the efficiency of M, and into the organisa- ion}or the Foreign OMce. er yesterday's Cabinet the Minister talked private’ Major Gwilym — Lloy rge, the Home Secretary, ove Ministers résponsible tgr wcurity. Secret inquiry UW an inquiry into security is dered by the Cabinet it is Kely to lake place in great creey, with only Ministers ve responsible getting the ‘ull Bndings. ‘The Foreign Office inquiry caw being urged would cover,ail in inistrative arrangemeyts. Mr. |Herbert Morrison, Labour's ‘Fordign Secretary tor seen ‘monjhs in 1951, would like to jee ia Cmmittee of Privy Courtil- lors go into it, 1. [this proposal will almast eeftainly be resisted by the Gop- erpment. Stanley Bishop writes: A_facl now established by M.L5 is that the finat warning to Maclean and Burgess to lee the country was by a_ telephone message to Burgess at his flat in the early aflernoon of May 23, 1951. Warning letter Vhere had been previously a signed. oaly with a tian name, which told the two men they were under serious on, and that trouble for nem jay around the coruer, The man in charge of Foreign Office security when Burgess and Maclean escaped now goes bebind the Iron Curtain—he ha. been appuinted counsellor and head of the chancery at the Bgtish Embassy in Warsaw. is Mr. George Cargy- er, formerly head of “@,” iy Foreign QOilice branch de with security, and a for RAB. group eapiain, RE: DONALD DUART MacLEAN, et al ESPIONAGE - R (Bufile 100-374183) NEWS CHRONICLE SEPTENBER 22, 1955 LONDON, ENGLAND SUFFICE OF TE LEGAL t OTP AMARONE ACHE - assy Lonos . ENGLAND. —