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rhc ng ne mt wae a en Om IE 9 a ee RRO GE cee, remarks, oe f 1597 Former Mr. C. R. Hobson (Keighley): Hear, Mr. Brooman-Whitet That ‘is ‘an ‘im- portant point It is obviously true that the judgment was at fault. tote Mr, Hobson: The record of Burgess was well known before ever he went into the Foreign Office. That is the grasamen of the charge of many bon. Members on this side and on the hon. Member's own side of the House, We want to know what people were doing ever to start the Man. ari Het eh OR) i wiht wae Mr. Brooman-White: The point 1 was making is that after the war there was @ reat change in the whole system with ¢ reforms instituted by Mr, Ernest Bevin —the great change in the whole structure of the Foreiga vice, the bringing ia of a consular service, and the sest of it. ‘The numbers were vastly increased. In those circumstances, it ts quite obvious that the senior personnel must have fost some of the contact which had previously existed between members of the Foreign Service and thai they had Jost the intimate touch with and the intimate knowledge of their subordinate staff. 1 may well be that the Foreign Office was slow in re- Organising itself, in jnstituting the system of confidential reports and similar things which bave now been instituted; but again one must say that the reasons which have been given today scem convincingly to carry the point that the necessary feforms have now been made. In present circumstances, the difficulties atising from that major reorganisation have been over- come. To my mind, no evidence has been advanced to the contrary.’ Time is ron- ning short and J. must abbreviate my GLY SLIM Lk MALTY : The whole tenor of the debate has been to stress the extremely difficult problems in striking the right balance between security and individual liberty. J am sure that tbe feeling of the country and of the House is behind the Government in ensur- ~ ing that we do not depart from our tradi- tional attention to the rights of the individual and the maintenance . of Mr, Allred Robens (Blyth): The bot. Gentleman the Member for Rutherglen Mr. Brooman- White) has resisted ite roposas put forwar fright hon. Friend the Member for wicham, South eign Office. J NOVEMBER 1955 onc Dsappenace 1998 -- Mt. H. Morrison) that there shouldbe “~~ a judicial inquiry into the Security Sere - - vices, and he produced as his mai ee ment for that that the Maclean ii i was a “near miss,” that the Security Ser> vice had narrowed down to Maclean an ---- inguiry in which there had been 6,000 Suspects, and that Maclean just escaped ~~ the rap at the last moment. I suggest _ that it is for that reason that there ought to be a ju inquiry, enienithns - "Tt most be re red that the atti- .. tude of our allics throughout the world, and particularly the United States of America, fo the exchange of atomic Secrets is conditioned by their fear of oe | ‘confidence in our security arrangements ~ and our ability to ensure that their secreta, impanied to us as friendly and co-opera- tive allics, will not go to a foreign Power because of cither the laxity or the ineffi- -. ciency of our Security Services. There fore, the proposal to have a judicial inguity is one which. 1 hope, the Prime -- - Minister will not lightly turn aside to | night. I hope that he will undestake to Bive it some consideration. ~~ eer) * What’ we want is security without - McCarthyism. J very much regret that ... - ‘one of my hon. Friends mentioned in the acbate the name of sa individual other than Maclean and Burgess, because that is exactly what happened in the United States. It was because the United States. ‘Administration refused themselves totin- -- quite into a number of rumours and allegations about their security that McCarthyism arose, and if the Trumaa Administration had pot brushed aside the allegations which were being made and had examined their own security atrange- ments, then McCarthyism could -never | - have been born. McCarthy stepped into § -.- the vacuum created by the refusal of the United States Administration to took into their own arrangements.. We ought .to Tear from the Jessons of the United States and the case of Algar Hiss. 4-26: c:tew J agree with the Foreign Secretary that the standard of our Foreign Service is high, and that the Foreign Service is one | of which we can be very proud. - it is | all the more to be regretied that we have - the case of Burgess and Maclean. The . case has often been referred to as the mystery of the missing diplomats, but-it has not been a mysteny lor many years now, and reading the White Paper is rather like reading the back files of one of our - daily newspapers. The story has not beem > ome eens