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; athony” Eden fe Parlia-! ‘ent today to £ we ,z study 2 ong by a group LONDON, ‘Nov. 7° to tard against. another Burgess. cLean, case, Prime: Minister’ Britain's a elder states 1en, The Prime Minister made the > d in wistding up a House of ommong debate. qn the 1951 fection, diplomats Gu\ Burgess and mald "MéLean—déscribed_ by! reign .Séeretary Harold Mac- villan as one of the most pain- a orles. in the nation’s Shi “Ramis gS ‘the governmé t ad been-“a bit laggard”-‘in ‘cognizing the danger in the » tse, Eden’ said: “We should examine... the ’ curity measures now ‘applied i the public service and also ‘nsider “whethe ‘any further ecautiong can properly be ‘ken to reduce the risk of chery"... I therefore . | “pose that we should con- ‘nef a small informal confer- seef of privy councilors from. if sides pf the House.” Dacca rina Tn Pyvy councilors are a select) py ‘precau-| to theCommunists}. cess t. marily as advisers to Queen Elizabeth pte ‘Eden's cail came only a few +s “no evidence” | thal Philby ‘tipped off others tional leaders who serve pri- \tton in demanding some kind of Haroid Philby & probe. MacLean, head of the For- eign Office’s American Depart-| hours after Macmillan turned/ment, was under suspicion down an opposition Laborite .|demand for a judicial inquiry and an all-party investigation of the way the Foreign Office selected and promoted its men. But members of the Prime Minister's own Conservative on of statesmen and na-|Party joined with the: oppost- T pee | JUN 2. CB. Moc deralal 1978 ‘when he fied with Burgess be- hind the Iron Curtain. Burgess, who had been attached to the British Embassy in “Washing- ton, was home on leave for dis- ciplining at the time. Vladimir Petrov, a Soviet dip- lomat who deserted to the West, >| said recently that both men had been recruited as Communist agents in the 1930s. Nearly two years after their disappearance, MacLe "8 ‘American-born wife,’ Melinda, vanished from Switzerland with their three children. Their trail was traced to the Iron Curtain) border in Austria, She is be- lieved to have joined her bus- band. ' The present whereabouts of [Burgess and MacLean have not been definitely established, al- though there have been reports placing them in Moscow or in a satellite country. Although acknowledging that the government had not acted promptly, Eden warned against jeopardizing British liberties in building up defenses against spies. “British justice over the cen- turies has been .based on 1h® principle that 4 man has to be” presumed innocent until he be roved guilty,” the Prime Min-: Ber said, “Have we got to aban-! don that principle? Perhaps’ worst of all, are.we to make ani ‘exception _ i . political 2 Of! fenses?. cpatien. and ‘Macmillan’ Tolson Boardman ——__ Zh Nichols ———___- Mr. Harbo Mr, Mohr Mr, Parsons Mr, Rosen Mr, Tamm Mr. Sizoo Mr, Winterrowd Tele. Room Mr, Holloman ——__ Miss Gandy NnoT P=Corr 3S 126 NOV 14 1955 a oa Wash. Post and WZ Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Mirror Daily Worker The Worker New Leader Date 4-2-5 5S Paget