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caput -igmanne eae scer oe wecrmane raceette ane went Hag CA NE EME OAINERIE n ne ore Nato oe ewe ee ne ma wie i ors MS oe ee 1601" Former Forcign Off?’ I NOVEMBER'198$° Officials —Y7iappearance i603 to a colleague jn the same building. They I say, therefore, that theré should be" * collapsed on a bed and fell asleep. Ik was two inquiries. There should be one into oo. here in the evening that subsequently his recruitment for the Foreign Office, There wife found Macican and, with help from should be an investigation of what has. a sister, half-dracced a completely sodden happened since the changes decided vy; husband downstairs to a car and tock him in 1943, whether they have broadened the -+.2--— home. seth an basis of Fecruitment, whether a close circle Is the right hon. Gentleman telling me €X!Sts oF not and in what way covering ~~ n that everybody in the Embassy did not UP takes place. That kind of inquiry Know about that incident? Is he suggest. COvld be made easily by « umber ing that this White Paper reveals one-half Methods which the Prime Minister can _ of that shocking story? 31 was not the annus for himself—either by Privy only incident, but what happened to him? Councillors, by a Select Committee or by” ; This poor, overstrained, overworked S0M¢ other method. If we want to wipe > - : . it gentleman came back to this country, wag OUt of the public mind the idea that there ; i. givea six months’ leave of absence, and Be’ eoreeing UP faside the Foreiga |... } on vs eee the Job in the F OFeiBO which these facts can. be brought pint “ag 4, The second inquiry should bein relae a5 1 tion to security and this could not be ‘i+ earried out by & Select Commitice of this . m fot allocating blame House. We suggest that it should be dons to individuals, 1 am saying that within by way of a judicial inquiry. the judges the Foreign Office there is a close circle wporting to the political head of security, - of covering up. { repeat to the Prime Who is the Prime Minister. If the 1) Minister and to the Forcign Secretary that hoa. Gentleman refuses such an inquiry,” it does not matter how many times either the report of which obviously would be stands at that Box and says that it is not Private, other than to himself and bis ims so. Ido not believe that the public will mediate advisers, then we shall fall into accept that this is not the fact. -... the istrati on fel} the United Staies Ad- i . : inistration fell into, and we mal 7 Disgraceful behaviour of the kind in things. unhappy fot mary peop aka, but ston and in this city, several years, « None dl cts which was well known within the Foreiga’ Of Burgess, wl it that the sect Office, ought to have been dealt with ptople were able to say? Nothing at U years ago and he should have been Indeed, but for the fact that he u sacked. So J say that there is anced for country. Burgess might easily be working = two inquiries , tau. atthe BBC. today. He would have boca ~ . a <4 :.- fired from the Foreign Office because he - Mr. €. Pannell: Before’my right hon. was due to be fired. Here again, we hag Friend leaves that point, will he ask the same type of individual, All . somebody representing the F fice things were well known. he facts of thai RE ae ever brought to the notice of the then Sec-* «’.I repeat that the Prime Mioister should: retary of State for Foreign Affairs? If he D¢ prepared to have some sort of inquirys ‘was not acquainied with those facts it is Ot necessarily on the lines we indicate: .<~ wrong 10 ask the Minisier to “carry the although what we have advocated seems: can™ in the Jast resort. Ministerial re- 0 us to be the best way to do it: Ws} sponsibility depends upon knowledge contend that only a searching inguiry can being brought to the Fiat head, and reveal why both men were not dismissed. * Tsay that it was, not Brought..n1a od J the Service as completely unreliable and) 4g sisax: ‘That is the point 1 have- unfitied to represent theis country at home # the doctrine “ -. ~ ministerial responsibility is accepted, ani “Another interesting thin; J accept it, i{ is the responsibility of the these .men were Protected and exci: Departmental advisers to keep the were made for their drunkeaness and Pee L Minister fully informed. _¥ was asking versions, ordinary working men who Ya whether these facts were known to the Communist affiliations were kicked out of individuals concerned. because I am their jobs almost at a moment's notice.’ suggesting that they were noL-= 4 = .- Does this mean that there is one law roe fs Fs .° Np meee tyme en s . nati Tic nanan mmmnnanen ae Hi a ht mt a4 % ¢ rg ee ae nie meee