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O-19 (7-8-55) ww} —me y Continued From First Page that Philby and his fam- 7 had left the country. 4 § 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: “If any evidence can (be pra- duced by anybody inside or out~ side the House, I trust it will be made available to the authori- Selby, ‘son of an internation- : ally known explorer, was namadaii_gyt long parliamentary hf-; in the Burgess Maclean case last week by a@ 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 td cover up at all costs the dubi-' £005 of the top-drawer class that ous third-man activities of Mr. » Harold Philby, who was first sec- retary of the Washington Em- bassy until allittle while ago,” : Sir Anthony retorted “my an- swer remains no” and promised. then to arrahge for today’s de- bate of the case—described by Foreign 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 @ security net was closing in’ on. them, Maclean's American-born wife, Melinda, disappeared with’ their three children. Mrs, Maé, 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 Curtain. She is be- eves to have joined her hus- present whereabouts: of Bur Bess and Maclean have not been definitely established — though; there have been reports placing them in Moscow or in a satellite: * country, As for the flight of Maclean's -wife later, Mr. Macmillan said: “The real point is that Mrs. Maclean has very little impor- . Anything she knew before ean lett she must have got whe hs had no means of obtain- ing any information after she left and whether she remained |kind of background _ agai which the two principal char Securit, Mr. Macmillan said British fe curity had been strengthened in the Foreign Office—even before Burgess and Maclean fled—when suspicions were first aroused. Mr. Macmillan sald thet as soon as Maclean fell under sus- Picion in the middle of April, 1961, “‘one of those informed was - Sir Roger Makins, now our Am-| bassador in Washington.” ‘The Foreign Secretary empha- sized, however, that it was “quite untrue” that Sir Roger had been| in any way responsible for| “checking or clearing Maclean.”| can rarely have happen ry that @ political head offa; department should have had ‘unfold to the House of Com: so painful-a story as that which it ts our duty to consider today.”| Giving the background of Bur- Burgess and Maclean fled—-when has held high places in the| British foreign service—Mr. Mac-| Millan said: “To understand, though not,| of course, to excuse this sto it is necessary to cast our back to the 1930s and recall ters grew up. “gt that time all kinds of vio lent opinions were being pressed. The circums' of the Spanish civil war, with Fas- cists and Communists backing rival forces, divided British and! indeed European opinion acutely. | “... With the Hitler-Stalin pact ideological beliefs exerted pull which sometimes proved onger than patriotism. ©” ... This had a particularly isturting effect upon young people.” ‘The Foreign Secretary went on! to explain that “this clash of loyalties—buried in 1941 by the alliance with Russla—was re~ vived when the war ended and there came an estrangemént with’ Russa. “Thus it was that could be found in Britain who could put the interests of another country before those of their own and commit the -horrible crime of treachery.” gm ng, , $n this country or left 4} made” very. little ws Mr. Tolson Mr, Boardman ——___ -<. Nichols ME Harbo Mr. Mohr \Mr. Parsons ....__ Mr. Rosen Mr. Tamm Mr, Sizoo Mr. Winterrowd Belmont Tele. Room Mr. Holloman Miss Gandy. Wash, Post and ——_ Times Herald Wash. News Wash. Star N. Y. Herald Tribune N. Y. Mirror Daily Worker —_____ The Worker New Leader Date pens See PR Pea a