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preAer’s | CHECK 0 SECURITY Privy Counsellors to Make _. .. Secret Report _“CLOSED SHOP” DENIE ae FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT ¢ conference of Privy Counsellor that is to consider security precaution after the Maclean-Burgess affair has now been constituted. The Prime Minister told the House of Commons that it will be composed of ‘Lord Salisbury, the Lord-Chancellor (Lord muir), the Home Secretary (Mr Lloyd-George), Lord Jowitt, Mr Herbert Morrison; Mr G. R, Strauss, and Sir Edward Bridges (the Per- manent Secretary to the Treasury). The terms of reference for the erence read: ‘0 examine the security procedures now applied in the public services and to consider whether any further precautions are called for and should be taken.” The material words “ now applie@” wifl be noted. The inquiry will be : info the security precautions as thdy ‘have been strengthened’ since the esfape of Maclean and Burgess. THE MANCHESTUR GUARDIAN he conference clearly “did -npt cqmmend itself to some back-benth; mbers, as their questions show4d. : Opposition Front Bench offered no comment on the Prime Minister's | announcement for the good reason that it is a party to it. The Prime Minister prefaced his statement by jointing out that he had consulted ir Attlee as to who should serve on| the conference. t “<A Closed Shop” To Mr Bellenger the conference is “almost a ciosed shop.” but in his judicial way he said he could under- stand the considerations which ‘led to making it a closed shop. What he wanted to know was if there would be any report to Parliament from the confer- ence. The Prime Minister answered thi ft the report will be made to him andif recommends any changes in the |; w att / such recommendations _ would. eqne “béfore the House. ; ir Anthony would not*agree thatfthe , ednference is a closed shop. “If is edmposed,” he went on, “of members THUPSDAY, NOVEMB:R 2h, 1955 LONDOK, ERGLAND Ff Lisle sD. O DEC 161955