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it ‘extraordinary F Was back in England froin Cairo. --. a ‘and_get disgustingly. drank Since Burgess and... Maclean’ disappear certain club.’ He twice ice engaged jn drunken brawls with "out quite freely. on. Femlnizensss o LER Wing friends in Gg.OF which they: ivere rolling on ~~. ess and Maclea whet they were at “In’ each ‘case the cau: the stick as that they had i betrayed their former Left Wing. opinions. This was the head Pof the American Departmen S “Did the Foreign Office kriow and tolerate. this’ conduct? if they were. ignorant. they- must-have been’ living’ in an ivory tower, which is hard to believe The commiander of a regintent, ghe-mnanager of a bank; the head of iversity. would get to Yea of salsbbaduet among his‘subordin: Salen ‘Surely. heads of dip! departments. should have ‘higher \ptdndards than’ privaté ‘peisons, whether in’ the: office jor not,” inken;” dirty and ‘ née: school he, made no pretence bout it in his conversation or.in his conduct. id at persons should riot be usedtin Foreign Service if they até likely ta bring the country into, pute or lay theimgelyesopen to blackmail.” . ~ Could Maclean’ ., beet taken from hi Would that have'st im Jéaving the ‘country? Lord Astor “Said he had been fo J F member of the Cabinet that any-"— 4aVé this country, thou a passport." : ?” had to, go to France the follow- ing Weekend and, tried it! I was ‘politely told by Scothind ‘ard man at Loridon Airpott that if 1 dic not produce a pass- F'port I cduld not led “ “T said he had’ no ight dad ot rod i ML. arise, Te- that the Foreign He observed neatly that izes could have feft the country aithouk apassport iy could certainly, not have ot inté France without one. torious for that bad fel % : aie sett ta art have spokenybat: the point had been iniad ee ee gedit ly by, the. Government Whips), that th LORD READING, ‘replying for q “until the, ~ the case that Maclean w: ena cond chance as head of : cet purse I agree. it Wi ‘airo;”. he said. “But the; ait “fetails ‘were not known to ‘the » Privy. ‘Ambassador in Cairo at t ime and consequently were not utions in.the Pablic’ own to the authorities rior to ind “com z the ambiissadors tinder iehoit he had worked, tio inquiry was made into the past and 1 do Hot see agy reason why it should * haye been a. during that period he did indulge in ‘in r4 f FY London but most ‘cprtainly'we tid not know. How could we = know at the Foi en Office?”