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‘that her son had = sem Ae Se ra (3) Donneo Mae. Lean WR. PHILBY ONDON TO TO- pike 4 = VISIT _TO PARENTS Dally Telegraph Reporter Mr. Harold Philby. former First Secretary at the British embassy in Washington, who; ‘was mentioned by Mr. Macmil- lan, Foreign Secretary, in the: House of Commons yesterday in ‘relation to the Burgess and Mac- jlean investigation, 1s expected ‘this morning at his parents’ {home in Drayton Gardens, Ken- sington. other, who 1g the wife of Mr. Hany Std. Philby, the explorer and ‘authority on Arabia. said last night been in touch with her, but she did not know where he was staying. She did not know if he had been tot that-Mr- Macmillan had cleared him of the imputation of warning Burgess or Maclean. Asked what she thought of Mr. *Macmillan’s statement, she replied: | “It is wonderful.” Mr. Harold Pailby, who joined the Forei Office 1946, went Woshington | 0 16 08. Burgess at one ‘time- lodged him there. In i June, 16F he Smenth after Burges Maclean disappeared, Ir, |Pifilby returned to London. ie resigned the service in Sep- tember of that year. He has bet ayay from his home in| Crow- | th. Sussex, since Oct. 22. Eis jeft the house recently 4 RE: MacLEAN CASE (#uffle 100-3711183) DAILY NOVEMBER 8, 1955 LONDON, ENGAID AF to still EGRAPH & MORNING POST ITS LESSONS has the Burgess-Mackan case continued to 6xcite public, concern? Not because it com-' forms in many réspects to the pattern of a sensational novel- ette. Not because any particular Interest attaches to the squalid personalities concerned. The truth Is that the whole episode administered a very severe shock to the reputation of the Foreign Office. How could this eminent Department ever have employed such people? How could it have continued to employ them after very great numbers of people knew thcir personal characters to be what they were? Is there any guarantee that there are no other Burgesses and Macleans unmasked? The whole impression made by the story has been that the Department ose business it 1s to make Fings und other people is labje to ve rings made round itself. ee ‘psi CASE AND "4 Le wy tr. Macmintan rightly a ‘ibed the whole business “painful.” But-+not the least Pdiniul part of it is the way It has been haridléd by those #! felt the pain. Mr. HERBERT Moraison, Foreign Secretary at the time of tHe filght, stone- walled. The White Paper pub- Ushed two mofiths ago read like ®@ masterpiece of uninformative irrelevance. But Mr. MacmiLtan yesterday. was certainly wise enough to change the tone of the explanations, and to add proofs of a reform of the security system. In s0 far as both the tone and the substance of official statements were better, the case for an inguiry, with due discre- tion and without undue inhibi- tions, becomes less urgent. But,” as the Parmx MInisTeR very. clearly recognised, all anxiety is. nqt removed; and his suggestipn— of{a small all-party inquiry py Privy Councillors well merits the consideration for which he askéd. | Behaont. Harb. Mr. Hs iavaa Miss Gandy @. eg. Mac- douelA