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NOTIFYING STAFF ‘ evening to the White Paper the measures iecessary to carry owt these reco! ttions will involve alterations in existing pro- ‘cedures. These alterations will be notified to the staff associations concerned ad un ‘opportunity given for representation to be jmiade before the alterations are promulgated fin full. _ The conference point out that while an individual can be arrested on suspicion that he is about to attempt _to convey secret information 10 a foreign Power, he must be ‘brou, an before the courts on a charge with- out delay. The tinie required to collect evidence upon which a charge can be based is often long, andf the conference dismiss any suggestion thaf power should be sought to detain Pepions for an unlimited period without pre fe thi ‘ing charges agai them, They say that would ‘run counter to this cougtry's Maditional principles of individual frekdom and would he most unlikely 10 be appdoved by Parliament in time of peace. CONTRACT WORKERS ACCESS TO TRIBUNAL FAVOURED They also come to the conclusion that legislation which would permit arrest and detention without a charge being preferred, for a short specified period of, say, 14 days, would not be much help, The conference also consider that the withdrawal of a pass- part could not be relied upon to prevent a .United Kingdom citizen in connivance with ‘a foreign Power from leaving the country, {The conference seviewed procedures for the security of secret Government contracts invpiving persons outside Government em- ployment. | They have considered whether perpons subject to these procedures should befriven the right of having their case considered by the “Three Advisers.” The conference recognize that this is a difficult matter, but are in favour, if suitable arrangements can be made, of access being given to the same iribunal'in certain cases, They recommend, however, that in the first instance this matter shoutd be discussed with the National Joint Advisory Council. Arrangements for such discussion to 12k place are being made. The White Paper. Statement on the Fini} ings of the Conference of Privy Councillc! on Security, is published by the Stationes Office (Cnid, 9,715) price 6d. The chairman of the conference was Lard Kilmuir, the Lord Chancellor, and” its other members were Lord Salisbury, Lord President of the Council, Major Lloyd- George, Home Secretary, Lord Jowitt, Mr. Herbert Morrison, Mr, George Strauss, and Sir Edward Bridges, Permanent Secretary to ‘Treasury. . Se tribunal, known as the “ Three Advisers,” was ‘established by the Labour Government in_1948, Its first three mem- bers were Sir Thomas Gardiner, formerly Director-General of the Post Office, who is the chairman, Sir Maurice Holmes. formerly Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of |. Education, and Sir Frederick Leggett, for- meri: ty secretary at the Ministry of re aS i neral secretal he Wei 8 Bice Workers, was later S pponda Sr addi- tional member, :