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+ DONALD DUART MacLEAN, et al ESPIONAGE - R (Zufile 100-37);183) DAILY BERALD SEPTEMBER 20, 1955 LONDON, EXGLAMDS 9B GS. OFFICE OF THE LEGAL ATTACHE AMERICAN EMBASSY, LONDON, ENGLAND, a Nrong men, right ties LL the Foreign Office needs now is+ to find microfilm of its secret doca- ments hidden in a pampkin and, the parallel with the Aiger Hiss treason. case in the United States would be eomplete. But in the case of Maclean and Bur- ' gess the microfilm got to Moscow. From the laconic and reluctant admis- sions of ihe Foreign Dive it appears to have been easier for Maclean to take | secret documenis than it is fer the iaw- abiding layman to get a passport to Paris. What a farce it is! For over four years officiaidem bas tried to hush up the real story because itis a scandalous one that reflezts pn the Foreign Office, its recruitment, abd igs quite astonishing tolerance of socal haviour thatin any other ocenpatips ould have earned Maclean and Bur- ss the sack, Now the game is up because The People was able te publish the truth, Maclean and Burgess had the right sogial background and wore the right old school tie, In the anachronistic atmosphere of ihe Foreign Service, which is about as democratic as Eton and the Carlton Club, this signified ‘ that they were gentlemen. fit to associate with the other gentlemen, whose memoirs reveal that they. get most things wrong. Now we are promised the White Paper we should have had four years aga, Then let us go a4 litte farther et us have a real investigation inte fle appointments to the Foreign Office. On ith record if is quite impossible} to befieve that the best candidates could get past the doorman,