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y es ERR A titel ati ame Terje here ere ai ( 5 ope pire Geez sees pee ~ Ra yertriet open mee ar Ty $307 Forme An Office. 7 NOVEMBER 1955 onsite S apc MR. MACMILLAN) neu ez. 50° have been made have enormously ool tM applied a merely to new thened the security system. ihe J entrants but to existing officers who be- whether any substantial improvement can came subject to the new conditions as to {be made within our existing 1 of Postifgs, promotion and retirement. Jaw, on which I will say a gore . down ; unately, The House will see that the remodelling sufficient to satisly oorechian tat we have of the Foreign Service was initiated by a taken all possible steps. We cannot ignore Conservative Foreign Secretary and, after fhe fact that this incident, following upoe exhaustive inquiry, by a Coalition Goy- others in the world of science, has had s ernment It was implemented by a iserious effect upon our reputation abroad. Labour Forei sn Secretary only ten years That is inevitable. Of course, many of ago in a Parliament which, with al) its bine allegations, made by. inrespontibne faults or merits, cannot be accused— i people are $0 exaggerated that they Tam speaking of the Parliament of 1945 with chem their_own refuiation.- Neve Be pe ee Prciudiced in favour of [tect there een danger thats the past or standing 100 rigidly upos i feeling might be spread among our Alli one eye There! ore. vara seem {that our own reliability, hitherto regarded fo me that 2 case for s ’ into the recruitment and organisation of im a model, is no longer to be srusted, the Foreign Service has been made out. ac is of the Breatest importance for our Now, with regard to the Security Set. they do on clos, seletngs Sependin bes vice and the Maclean case there 1 one ith our Allics, in the old world and is Point that I should like to emphasise, 1 new, that sive Governments Spoke just now of how this information should be kn own to he have taken “te was got and how it had to be sified, within their power ¢o any Yoopholes The information originally available and to suengthen a Netinnse necessitated a search in» field of about of defendig ‘our vita) Bee Dente 6,000 people. That is to say, on the tech. fore! bee the \ni er of how this was got, there! fOfeign observers compare Preseat nical character of how { £ot, th position with the situation as it was some were 6,000 people each of whom might time ago. I can bon estly say that ft i have been the man. These the Security my belief that ev ical means has Service eventually narrowed down fo one. ben ‘aken whee bales to the Brew ihat in this ease unlike the Fuchs case tive. T would, therefore make aaa they were unable to obtain sufficient 7 2 ppeal evidence to justify a charge is, of course, Ipicseae would ding abd face ana . to be regretted. -- oF as still more, an outdated picture of our” The aificultics in Cur system of law tg / security system as it stands today... +, ” very real, the skill, perseverance Before 1 conclude I hope the House * loyalty of the Security Service there can will bear with me for one on two moments be no doubt. 1 should like to add this more for some final reflections. As 1° tibute: Mt is indeed remarkable that have already stated, we have to face a? We are able to recruit men of such high org completely changed from anything character and attainments, The rewards the older ones among us knew or thought are not very large ; the responsibilities are Sossible: and what a change it is. Since Sarre eee tact i ite, OF ts Sti T689 in England and since 1745 fo Senn saine satisfaction in life not only om and there has been no real dispute about Going a job well but from the public the character of the régime. Bitter as acknowledgment of success. These men have been litical conflicts st certain are cut off from all that. They work in simes, there been, no question for all Secret. Most of their successes—and those years of serious acts of treachery } there are, indeed, successes—musi be kept eg the country. We have to go back to : quiet, Any failure hits the headlines. For the period of the wats of relisten nse this service, then, not fame but patriotism any parallel for the new ideological con- the spur and the reward. site which divide the port and which } On the more general aspects of security may Continue to vide it | for ars T should like to add this: T am satisfied, fo come. “0 2. Se wo and I hope the House will be satisfied. ~ It is difficult for the Older ones amon; that all these new arrangements which us to realise the new eM . YS srpeege