BRIBE INQUIRY
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1940.
PRIVATE SECRETARY SURPRISED AT ACCESSIBILITY OF BELCHER
London, Novembar 23.
James Richard Cross, a 27-year old civil servant, told the Tribunal probing alleged corruption in Government circles today that he had been sur- prised at how easily Sidney Stanley, an alien who is a key figure in the inquiry, had access to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, Mr. John Belcher.
Cross has been Mr. Belcher's private secretary since 1947. He said hardly a day passed when Stanley did not either call personally on Mr. Belcher or telephone him.
Cross said he had often heard telephone talks during which Stanley would invite Mr. Belcher to go to his flat. Sometimes Stanley would say: "I have someone here I want you to meet." Cross said he himself had been to Stanley's luxury West End flat about 10 or 12 times. Asked if he had done anything to try and discourage Stanley's frequent visits to the Board of Trade, witness said he thought an one occasion he must have shown a little resentment on the telephone.
Mr. Belcher had told hiru shortly afterwards "that all he
he said, WAS stli "definitely
the life of a rallway
clerk. Outside, Mr. Balcher's official dutles compelled him to go to. dinners and functions
where people were hospitable to him. They encouraged him and that leads to A great temptation, think."
Sultry Asked his opinion of Stanley, Mr. Haworth said: "He m. I cannot Imadne
Pike
that anybody could be with hing Jong without Keeing through him. thought he was amus Cross said he had first hearding and at any rate harmless, 1 Betcher himself that did not know, and non vi us from str.
had dive or six had to do was to be polite to ours were going around that knew that he
football
Percoly bud Terent
names." Stanley and he would deal with Shermans
br Best Sir John Woods, Mr. Bel-
Asked about a gold cigarette. him. During their visits tcher and Cross so as to get a
1 #
a suit of claities Sun- Stanley's flat, mailers affecting | prosecution for breach of the tey was allegedt to have given
Paper Regulations dropped. Mr. Belcher, witness suld he had i Mr. Belcher bud ulded at that seen the elgarette eup but lis time: "It is
Just a
rundar, Du
not know who had given it tu not worry about it,"
Mr. Belchur. Mr. Belcher
and he would drep
Stanley's Nat cosually for drink on their way to or from some official function. once Just
Sometimes, how. ever, the *Kita were by ap pointment.
the Board of Trade were nat Whe speclically discussed but talk usually was on economic problems and general business probbins.
Able To Help Cross surel be Trad visited Stanley's flat alone
May because he though! Stun- ley might be able to help when Mr. Belcher 2014 out of hos- pital.
Counsel: "Help in what way?" Cross "Butase of the eir- cumstances in which Mr. Belcher had gone into hospital---I felt he had liven drinking tom much und one of the Teasons was that Stanley
100 providing lavish hospitality for Inter,"
WHIS
Crows seld he had never re- celved money or any kind of gift other than drinks from Stanley.
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Hong Kong He know nothing about thr-brandeasting on frequency of suit of clothes. About the hotel 845 kilonyeles per second misel are bill at the Labour Party Con- 9.52 megaeyeles per second in the Ierence at Margute, which Stan- 31 metre band. ley is alleged to have put for Mr. Belcher, Mr. Haworth said Stanley himself had Klayed at the
same hotel as Mr. Belcher,
Witness also said Nat he barl often heard telephone conversa- tions during which
would invite Mr. Belcher to go to his But.
Generally Staniny dsen Mr. Belcher pay a bill. said that he wanted to see Mr.
Later however. Mr. Belcher Belcher but sometimes Stanley toki kim-"to his unazement"-- would say: "I have someone that the bill he hatt puid was here I want you to meet,"
for the second work. Stanley had invitert this Beichern 10
Foolish Spending
The next witness, James In-Margate and felt that he ought
therefore worth, a Member of Parliament,
tu pay the bill for the
saki he and Mr. Beleher had Best work. been close friends for 20 years. Mr. Haworth said he thought Mr. Belcher was keeping well within his income but was tool- Ish spending at the rate he
Witness said tempts to show people in high
Stanley's
Harold James
In Gray, charge of the Paper Section of the Raw Materials Depact- ment of the Board of Trade. was "questioned at length on the dropping, of the prosecu- tion
the Sherman against football pool for an infringe- mont of the Paper Regulations. The magistrate to
hearing
nt- that he knew
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gone before
Stanley had not approved of it." Stanley had once pulled
A letter which he would show
out
The matter ha not now but pretended to read high offelts of the Board from it: "Dear Stanley, we are
of
had recommended Trade, who very pleased with the way you the President of the Board
reopening the case. Ultimately, are keeping us in the Govern- ment and the work you have Trade discussed the matter with
Mr. Belcher
and Mr. Belcher party...Birale.
wrote a minute suying he fell
should
with.. be that when prosecution Mr. Belcher met the Sherman drawn.
done
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Mr. Haworth saist
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if tomorrow, Mr. Gray wall-he 10.00 +Stuck):s - Now- Reel; -(Landow was sure that once Mr. Belcher
Hatay!
brothers, chief of the football Before the Tribunal adjourned pool concern,"
he heard Harry Sherman say something to the effect:
"This is going to make had told him he had met Alfred 1815 pm-Weather Report, it very uncomfortable for you, Cope, one
of Britain's biggest 10.10 st.m.-"Thursday Serenade." Mr. Belcher."
| 10.45 pum.-"Harings with Wings". bookinakers at a race meeting.
George Melachrinn Urch with Pauls Green and Wilfred Barnes. (Vocal) (ORS)
Mr. Belcher replied: "Do not Earlier today, Cope testified worry about me. You go to the that Mr. Belcher had never i police."
his life made bets with him
Afterwards, Mr. Belcher told any of his companies.-Reuter. witness that he thought Sher- man was trying to blackinail or
tire pressure against him to have i
the proceedings withdrawn Ol
to get what he wanted in the
way of a paper allocation,
Too Approachable
Witness sait that
Williams
(an earlier witness) had told
or
11.15 p.m.--Weather Report and Close
Down.
1SPAAK ADMITS FAILURE
TO END THE CRISIS
Brussels, November 23,
The Catholic Minister of Finance in the outgoing Belgion Government, M. Gaston Eyskons, agrood tonight to try to form a new Govern mont in succession to the. Socialist-Catholic Coalition.
M. Paul Henri Spook, the outgoing Socialist Prime Minister, onnounced earlier tonight that he had failed after three days of negotiations to end Belgium's five-day old Cabinet crisis.
He declared: "I have failed But M. Spank added: “Every- to form a Government. There-thing is not quite ready yet." foream going
Els discusalons with the Catholle directly {0 report to the Prince Regent. and Soeinis! party lenders con
tinted all morning. I leave it to the Catholics (the
new the
other main Coalition Party bei
It was expected that 2 sides the Socialists) to explain Government would follow on what points we failed. For pattern of the one which resign- myself, I am incapable of ex-est yesterday over the reprieve plaining it clearly."
of two men sentenced to death; for war trenson
The Minister of Colaties I the outgoing Government, M.
The Cabluct crisis may delay; i'lerre Figny, stated tonight that
Belglon dele.) the question of which of the two the departure of
Union Com ogates to the West parties of the present Condition tice to inquire into European the Socialists or the Catholies (Social Christians) was to gain
administrative
Assembly due to meet in Paris
control of Mar. Tomorrow, shall Plan Ald in Belgium d been the chief obstacle to M. to reform a, lil- Spank's efforts partite Government.
Not Quite Ready
reported that
Earlier t Was
The President of the Catholic Party, M. Auguste de Schryver, announced tonight that his party could not agree that a Socialist should become Minister of Jus Tige Asked whether the present
the lend to wonde
Parliament DI
the major anng in the formation solution
18.
and
of a new Cabinet was overcome whether the country would go when M. Spank announced that to the polis 40 days after mich a Senotor H. Moreau de Melen, dissolution, M. de Schryver re- u Catholic, hal accepted thepited: "No. Negotiations post of Minister of Justice.
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Asked if Mr. Belcher had be- came any more unapproachable since he had become a Member of Parliament, witness sald he had told him he thought he was too approachable.
"He is too much John to everyone," Mr. Haworth add. ad, Life in the Belcher home,
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