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Len RANA A AER CO ARE INE ~ . THE PRESS the Sucetator of September 23 when he ventured his opinion that there was a connection between the Tong ¢ 7 official silencé over the Burgess-Maclean scandal and the far- : Ste: reuching pawer aid influence of what he termed the ‘Establish« neat.’ The controversy which followed has been 3 lively one, . but, like most ferocious altercations, it has succeeded in obscure jng the real issues, The time has come to clear the air, Jt is a fact that there was & remarkably Tong official silence O DR political columnist kicked over a hornet’s nest ia 4 over the afluir and that the hand of the Foreign Office was not forced until Me. Peiroy’s disclosures’ were published in the . was not calculated to allay suspicion that something had been far wrong in high places, In placing ‘responsibility for the ‘ general softness of opinion concerning the affair on the ‘Estab lishment? Mr, Fairlic explained that by the teem he meant ‘[not] > ‘only the centres of official power—though they are certainly part of it—-bur rather the whole matrix of official and social relations within which power is exercised,’ This was not to say that ‘the right people’ (the phrase which Mr. Fairlie quoted as “the popular term for the “Establishment’) would condone - treacherous sctiviiy on the part of those beside whom they | might (ind themselves at dinner any evening. What Mr. Fairlie suggested was that ‘he right peopie’ might automatically, and for the purest of motives, come to the aid of that “Establish- ment’ which they canstituted, Mr, Fairlic’s comment was on the ‘Establishment’ itself, not on such members of it who Tie é Peopte. The subsequent White Paper with its lame evasions x very properly, be loyal {9 institutions almost entirely oo ‘trolfed and staffed by people from ‘the same stratum.'{ Mr. - :Faiglie named Lady Violet Bonham Carter as a prom methber of the ‘Estublishment.’ Lady Violet took. nt RE: MacLEAN CASE. _emeecttmnmangnaijte | + hating, _ (Bult 100-37183) OCTOnER Ih ose. # Ca eT Bie pm, jae Dorota LONDON, ENGLAND eh °* severen onpy sent” CoB, MISES Be at py terTeR Sum! 1978 SE NOV 16 1955 ¢ PEEFOIN REQUESL four a