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erie § and 6 are moved Express Parliamentary Reporter _M R. HAROLD MACMILLAN, the Foreign Secretary, told M.P.s_ debating the Maclean-Burgess case fast ‘night om hat 900 Foreign Office officials have been checked for ecurity since 195 —and as a result four “have been sked to leave” and six more have been moved .or have resigned. a "Mr. Macmillan also disclosed that in the last 10 years 59 officials have been compulsoril retired for “incompetence.” So, he said, the Foreign Office is nol “| losed shop seeking to protect failures.” The new system ot checks since 1951, he said—it’ applies to all Government departments’ in which security is involved—“ has enormously strengthened the | security system.” And he refused a general inquiry , into the Foreign Office, ‘ /6SMALL CONFERENCE’ Mr. Herbert Morrison appealed to the Prime Minister to overrule this. “There is a case for an inquiry,” he said, “and inquiry there must be.” And. then,.as the six-hour. debate ended, Sir - Anthony ‘Eden proposed that “a small conference ott Privy Councillors "—two or three from each side of thes House—should examine security in the public services) and decide whether further precautions should be" tiken “to reduce the risk of treachery. esi. 09 007 The Prime Minister rejected the idea of ar inguiry¢ by judges. “Privy Councillors are MP ¢ said, “and tifis is a question for Parliament? ot teed ~ TT ~ ? He'sald that the methogs of pdsitive vetting” enfdrced * sins 1951—they go into} an gomtial’s background since) his schooldays—are disagreehble _but. inevitable, 7 . th. creo a ER ae? od ee i ve