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5 i bo 1 bose + j x he i vt fhe ke : ARLIAMENT™: meetk | 1 . again next week an: an) on “an early day , the Government will havé,! to find time for a debate on :the White Paper published : last month “concerning the disappearance of two former Foreign Office” ‘officials.* "+: oon Teport received so universally ; shostile ‘a reception from the Press, and “it is to be expected ‘that Parliament will have many searching questions te put to the- + Fort Secret ‘tt may be “has a Government |’ Lats (> “yhat Petrov'a testimony be iy enreay and would not b iblication. © of ite’ Pi why had Rot the, Foreign ice Pewor before he decided, more than a year after his defection. fetes ey a ‘the light of the even in ‘the ite Super, sseins inconcel¥, | that the repeated denials of any ty Normation being in the REEDS - siqn of the Government were ndt useful to subject ‘the report to _ some preliminary scrutiny. 't Sharing blame’ -” ee ame “” Before doing so it is right to’ emphasise thai this is no party OF personal matter. The conduct {Qf the Foreign Office under three . " ve. Foreign Secretaries ii be under examination, and will be for Parliament to weigh ' the blame for successive acts “@ folly and neglect are to be- vided petween the periods of. of Mar. Herbert’ Morrisog. Yo Anthony Eden "and . x4 old Macmillan. ; ° ne of the charges which wi brought against al} three © eign, Secretaries will be Lhe , eof candour showed * | information that cast any light @ motives which :: to the Might of/4; Foreign Office which is under ‘ t hat % It for incriminating evidence, trge; and the White Paper itse! is open to severe attack on the arpunds of lack of candour. . oxeover It is not only ‘the ! fire, , M.15, the counter-espion- | age organisation, ig also. con- ’~ Victed of gross negligence from, ithe account given inthe White Paper. This is the. most. dis- quielening’ aspect of the whole affair and it ts-to Uhis that Par- ament should direct its coldest sSerutiny.t > Pe te Gre ‘Postponed -. “Even when Mr. Morrison had « aciean should be questionep. the security authorities deci take no immediate action $s | they wished to wait ‘iil Mr: Maciean had left her -house aby before they earch: -Are M.L5 really incapable: of °° searching anything except ‘an ‘| empty house? Would .jt have been beyond their wit to have ‘Induced one ‘of the Maclean ser-:! ‘Vants,to have quit thelr employ-" ment and to have introduced ger own agent Into the house? ; - This would’ not’ only hat achieved the object of the search: 7 “agses 3) Bh teed, on May 25, 1951, that “/ nother point of crucial import; ip This conneotion. . gf) withholding * top ‘secret T earlier no%y from him he may be prompted lo | ‘OMice: official talked to | flee. it {s surely an elementary - maxim of counter-espionage that", the suspect's apprehensions . ae deliberately, aroused at a moment ° when he, haunts are all under the closest + 4 : ‘ l observation ? If the suspect is Now the White Paper exp'ains | guilty, he may well give Dimself away completely, « ies his friends and his - “Misleading To this the White’ Pap. nswer is that there was ans of stopping Maclean fro aving the country. This is ost Aagrandy msieading sta ie ic adeiiensnaianaaa cae ent in the whole of the White ° per; The Home Office ¢ eserves lo itself the right fuse a passport to any Britis! bject without giving an: m for its action, A passpo! can also be confiscated withou any explanation, isi should’ be trapped into: betray-!- rt himself, “A subtie, calcu- : “lated deception should have been ” Ame practised upon him at a ti ° whea he was closely watched, f he had attempted, as ct he did, to leave the count! je would haye found that a! ¢ ports had been warned : a! 18 “passport. would have ‘been © ken from him at Southampter ©