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HE three men who know more than ajyone else in Britain about the drama of the vanished diplomats—Burgess and Maclean—s' ke y¢sterday in a Commons that was strangdly quiet and clearly ill-at-ease. Little in their stories was new ; the details, mostly familiar but still fascinating, led to no startling climas—only to the frustrating : realisation that the two men outwitted the nation’s security services. © How did they do it ? Attention fixed on that point ot 4 as MPs listened, first to Mr. Harold Macmilian, the | May 25, (authoriete the tSesent Foreign Secretary, and then to Mr. Herbert | \pterrokalion of Maries) age Morrison, Labour's Foreign Secretary when the two | that night.” escaped in 1951. : Mr. Morrison produced a Mr, Macmillan did not discount the possibility that hand-written fetter" from a ~ Burgess or Maclean was tipped off. But he suggested ~ respected | friend OE gee that they might have fled after their suspicions had affairs i respect.” . been aroused in some other way. . . He aid not ame the weiter. » ibili ip- eed fer information pane mes Oty Ot eon | said at her flat in Drayton put renee Blowiy. in has beep very. serge venig | Gardeng, Kensington, Inst tense atmosphere. he read: sidered. he s2 vestizations | Tight: “i think it ts wonderful“... L knew them both, The Pieraewibility have been | that he has been cleared of and. actually Junched, with ndertaken and. are vro- | the imputation. She said her Maclean the day beforf he eding.” son would be there this morn- disappeared. On that dpy I Then he told M.P.s that, 1A. “I can't tell you where am sure he had no intention after close investigation, no he is now.") of leaving England in the way evidence had been found that Colonel Lipton (Lab, he did. . , Mi HL A. R. Pailby—named Brixton) — the | man who c - + by a back-bench M.P, in the named Philby a fortnight ago DID HE GET House tecently-rhad ‘warned refused to retract when he ° Burgess or Maclean : spoke later in the debate. WARNING ? “here is no reason tocon- _," When the verbal niceties o me clude that he has at any time of the Foreign Secretary's nocd Sy ae Mio his_private defeated the interests of this statement, have, been yirairs, his wife’s confinement country. or ta identify him examined,” he said, “it willbe and his plans for the immedi- with the co-called Third Man found that 1 am justified in ate future that I am con- —if. indeed. there was ove.” not making any withdrawal.” vinced be was ni n iritend- the Foreign Secretary said. Colonel Lipton got a very ing to leave the countr. stormy reception from both FO seas cas ‘me feel that, PHILBY ASKED %i%s,0t, the House. When subsequent to meeting me on Mr. Nutting, Foreign Affairs May 24, he received some TO RESIGN Minister, asked him if he warning that he was under ; would tell the Foreign Secre- suspicion, and immediately _. Mr, Philby, @ uniyersity_ tary what the information was Jef; the country with Burgess. =" triend of Burgess. had Commu- on which he based his charges, “Tt may be, therefore, that . nist associates during and he refused, someone in the Foreign Office : atier his university days, He He said he would only give {old him on May 25 That you Was asked in July, 1951, to them to the inquiry he wanted ad “authorised, him tooo . resign from the Foreign Office. to see held, questioned. ” ° While in Government ser.’ | But Mr. Morrison declared "AS Mr. Morrison read, fhe vice he was able and con- with sludied emphasis, of foreign Secretary looked fat Mentious. “I have no reason Maclean: “I am inclined to Sir Anthony “Bien a0 ae 4 {0 conclude that he has at any think he was tipped off : "£.ftime betrayed the interests of somebody—and if so I wis Prime Minister shook his bgad =? Mo country.” added Mr, Mace we could find that somebody. ~~ SiS ReenncNES Ee Alan. “It certainly was a remar! - ‘Mrs. St. John Barbe Philby, able coincidence that I shoul mdather of Mr. H. A, R. Philby, have given that order 0}