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Cc spy—— J Continued From First Page| story that Philby and his fam- had left the country. Nobody Being Shielded *The Foreign Secretary assured the House "nobody was being in, any way shielded” in the inves- tigation into the spy case and made this appeal: a “It any evidence can be pro- duced by anybody inside or out- \ side the House, I trust it will be made available to the authori- Philby, son of an internation-; ally known explorer, was named) in the Burgess Maclean case last week by @ Laborite member of: the House of Commons. Lt. Col. Marcus Lipton, in pressing for an investigation, asked Prime Minister Eden: “Have you made up your mind to cover up at all costs the dubi- ous third-man activities of Mr. Harold: Philby, who was first sec- retary of the Washington Em-. bassy unti! a little while ago. jr Anthony retorted “my gn-' r remains no”. and promfed thgn to arrange for today’s fle-; bafe of the case—described by! Foyeign Secretary. Macmillan as one of the "most painful” in British history. Wife's Role Minimized Nearly two years after Burgess and Maclean- vanished, just as o-~® security net was closing in on them, Maclean's American-born wife, Melinda, disappeared with their three children. Mrs, Mac- Jean and her family had left England to live in Switzerland shortly before. Their trail from there was traced to the border of the Iron Curfain. ‘She is be- lieved to have-joined her hus- band. Present whereabouts of Bur- gess and Maclean have not been definitely established — though +there have been reports placing them In Moscow or in a satellite - ~ - oo . untry. . As for the flight of Maclean's ‘wife later, Mr. Macmillan said: “The real point ts that Mrs. = Maclean has very little impor- tance. Anything she knew before Maglean left she must have got 4 “Bhe had no means of obtatn- ing} any information after fhe Jeft{and whether she remaiped in this country or left it mide very little difference,” Security Strengthened Mr, Macmillan said that as. goon as Maclean fell under sus- picion in the middle of April, 1951, “one of those informed was Sir Roger Makins, now our Am- : passador in Washington.’ 7 ‘The Foreign Secretary scone: ed, however, that it was “quite! Sntrue"™ that Sir Roger had been’ in any way responsible for “checking or clearing Maclean.’ “It can rarely have happened| in our long parliamentary his-| tory that a political head of a department should have had to ‘unfold to the House of Commons, so painful a story a6 that which; . it is our duty to consider today.’ Giving the background of Bur-' Burgess and Maclean fled—when | - sorls of the top-drawer class that, has held high places in the British foreign service—Mr. Mac-| millan said: “To understand, though not.) of course, to excuse this story it is necessary to cast our minds! back to the 1930s and recall the ld of background against which the two principal chargc- teiS grew up. : “At that time all kinds of vio- ent opinions were being ex- pressed. The circumstances of the Spanish civil war, with Fas- cists and Communists backing; rival forces, divided British and, indeed Zuropean opinion acutely.! “.. . With the Hitler-Stalin pact ideological beliefs exerted 'a pull which sometimes: proved stronger than patriotism. § “... This had @ particularly disturbing effect -upon young people.” 4 ‘The Foreign Secretary went on ltovvexplain that “this clash of ‘loyalties—buried in 1941 by the lalliance with Russia—was re- vived when the war ended and there came an estrangement with . Russia, ‘Thus it was that men cpuld ~ be} found in Britain who cpuld pul the interests of anqther country before those of theirfown jand commit the horrible ctime jot treachery.” _ —