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By KEITH WATERHOUSE ln HE British Foreign Office is persisting wi its conviction that the people of this country are idiots. The officials of that superior department would tell us nothing about the Burgess-Maclean scandal until a Russian renegade blew the gaff in a Sunday newspaper. ~-- - Something they could not tell us dn Sunday and would not tell us on Monday they have now told us on Tuesday. \ As Soon as Maclean fell under suspicion in April, 1951, ‘certain documents of particular secrecy’ were kept out of his way. Itis possible, says the Foreign Office, inat this action may well have been con- tributory to arousing his suspicion that he was under surveillance. Who makes this announcement? A Foreign Office spokesman. An anonymous bowler hat. Why didn’t Harold Macmillan, the Foreign Secretary, make it? Why doesn’t he come out and talk? of >> hy dees he allow the nes of one the greatest scandals of the century to