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{, this city, which was known in the Foreign joe, ought to have been alt with years ago. He ould have been sacked com- pletely” There should be an inquiry Into “covering-up.” Mr, Richard Crossman (Lab., Coventry East) said Mr. Macmillan should resign if he took responsibility for the White Paper. “If, after four years, this ‘tissue of palpable whalf-truths and contradictions is the best they can produce, thert the impression of cover-" ing-up {s more strongly sub- stantiated than ever.” he said. The crime of the Foreign Office was first to turn a blind eve to Maclean's deticiencies for too long; then, wheh he had gone. to prefer depart- mental loyalty te their duty to + the country. Mr, Rupert Speir (Hexham) wes the first Tory to call for ALFRED ROBENS Told of raid on flat "| Makins ‘was Me. MACMILLAN made the strange comment in his Commons speech yester- day that it was “quite untrue” that Sir Roger Makins had been respons:ble for’: checking or clearing Donald Maclean. “Such a statement is false and grossly unfair to Sir Roger Makins,” said the Foreign Secretary. et Lord Reading told’ the ds on October 25: ‘\A very experienced Under-| Secketary was watching Maclean! an inquiry into security—' it would reassure the Hotse and the country,” he said. Anather Conservati vie, Lieutenant-Cotonel J. K. Cor. deaux (Nottingham Central) echoed this view. “1 do not think that whitewashing is going to satisfy the Ne of this country about this case,” he said. i A committee of inquiry formed of judicial members of the Privy Council, sitting in secret, would help to reassure them, Mr. F. Tomney (Lab., Ham- mersmith North) warned : “Nobody believes the content or the essence of the White Paper—and that goes for the men in the pubs, the factories, the workshops and the clubs.” SLUR ON THE PHILBYS Mr: R. C. Brooman- White (Con, Rutherglen) said it must be'left to Colonel Lipton’s conscience to straighten out what the cost of his remayks would be in personal sufferjng to the wife, children, frieqds and relatives of Mr. Philby. * Sir Anthony Eden, replymg to the debate, said: “I think this has been a very sad day for the Foreign Service; a very sad day for our country, too, because ihe reputation of the Foreign Service is part of our reputation.” He had been asked, he said, why Maclean was not dealt with in the same way as Fuchs. “As I understand it, the trouble about Maclean was that there was not anything like that amount of evidence to enable him to be treated at that stage as Fuchs was. “But it was hoped to get enough evidence against Mac- jean to do so.” not checking’ with a special closeness towards the end of the time before his disappearance, just to see if there was anything which in-' dicated that he was not perform- ing his duties satisfactorily.” ‘The same day the Foreign Office named Sir Roger—now Ambassador in’ Washington—as the Under-Secretary in quastion. All that the Foreign Pffice spokegman would say last night was: “You have the two ftate~ ments before you but we cAnnot help, The answer will have to come from the House.” > id ‘he men a e myster, I was on Friday, May ‘25, 1951, that DONALD MACLEAN, head of the American Department of the Foreign Office, left his room in, Whitehall for the. last time, A few hours tater he had a_ meeting with GUY BURGESS, a Second Secre- tary in the Junicr branch of the Foreign Service. . Together they boarded a cross-Channel steamer at Southampton, Next morn- ing they landed at St. Malo. Then they disappeared. Maclean's wife, Melinda, went to erland with her three children more than two years later. They, too, vanished, Their trail fed to the Soviet Zone of Austria. Petrov, the Soviet spy who gave himself up in jAustralia, has since said that, Maclean and Burgess were both recruited as spies} for Rissia while they werd at Cambridge. They fed when they learned they urder suspicion, he ‘said. © ret ota gat ee