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(! “That, does Rot guarantee pus; ainst future ainester,” md iy nthony, “but jt does give the eat assurance that 1 Ve w this House that we have ne all we think we can wililin the law.” rhe Fremler thes then, joked around ing Taking off is torloigestiell elncses” Would the House like the Jaw altered ? Would it agree that the law, shou! auld, allow an; queitish subject to be detaines sus- picion?- (Some murmurs oft No.”} | pWUSTICE “would you be, illing that, ple “Bhould be held indefinitely the police while evidence is collected? course not. “British justice over the| centuries has been based on the; prine| le that a man is to be pre- Innocent until he can be . proved guilty. Have we to aban- son inh, Principle ? ‘Worst of @ we to make an exception oe, Service paving the powfr vo do some of the things whigh some of our‘friends in the Press do not seem to realise would flow ifpm such a policy.” nd Sir Anthony declared: “7 sspuld never be willing to be Prime Minister of a Government which: those powers of tis} - THIRD MAN Tn the Sebats the three men who were Foreign _ Secretaries} during the Maclean-Burgess case: =-Mr. Morrison, Sir Anthony, and bare Macmitlan—told their versions o! But tey still left the Digest question" unanswert was the Third Man ‘oho tipped| of the diplomats ? Mr. Macmillan said: “The circumstances of Maclean's dis- pearane were certainly ex explain-| abl le in the terms of a tip-off, but! it is quite possible that other circumstances aroused suspicion.” ‘The authorities, he said, are still investigating ‘the possibility of a tip-off. How many people knew 9 Mr. Herbert Morrison's decisioh | as Foreign Secretary on May - 4951, to investigate Maclean? Mr. Macmillan did not disclose. ant ot recat ay widened the yy saying tha bh that day-—sagd he diew atte.) tifn’ to the ™ ineidence * this was the very day the diplp~. _ mats fled—the ,Security ‘Servite als made a report to the offide: SUSPICION Mr, Macmillan said that s$spicion had been cast on officials who knew of the decision. Byt eVidence by Viadimir Petrov, the Soviet spy who deserted in “Aus- tralia, indicated the flight had been planned well before that date. of Mr. Harold Philby—the former Foreign Office man who] - was named in the House b; Colonel Marcus Lipton last month| as a possible. ‘Third Man—Mr. Mgemitlan said -— a Man—Mr T have no reason to conclube aV' that Mr, Philby has at any ti: oo on ort to, th rai : E Y. len! the}so-called Third Man bi) of \he Prime Minister. Mr, Attlee. [PUNUO i DOUBT REMAINS — M®. MACMILLAN’S speech on the missing diplomats is skiiful. In parts it is also reassuring. ‘The checks on aspirants for the Foreign Service and on its members appear to have been ‘immensely strengthened. They ‘may well have’ reached the point where, as Mr. Macmillan contends, the gaps in security have been plugged as tightly as they ever can be in a free untry. But alt these ch ks pend on the efficiency of the security service. ‘And there Mr. Macmillan’s! account is not so Satisfac- tory. Is this efficiency ? ACCORDING to Mr. Macmillan, who com- mends ‘and congratulates the security service, Maclean was spotted out of a fleld of 6,000, But nothing like that number can have handled the particular information found to have leaked. f And anyway, the case built up against him was not made solid enough for action. Meantime Burgess: ns missed altogether. It ‘further appears laclean’s house could eyen be watched for fea arousing suspicion, suspicion. he public demands OBODY wishes |to damage nationa! phestige by belittling British security. But what evidence is offered. of its increased efficiency? ._Mr. Macmillan meérely admits that the Third Man has not been found afd is still being’ Sought. Sir Anthony Eden Proposes an Informal gathering of Privy’ Councillors to have a general look-round ati security matters. It does) the Government credit to} yield thus to public opinion. But nothing so half-hearted will restore confidence either at home| ir abroad. The only way to lo that is to hold] al orough inquiry. The public will continue, to demand it.