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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1951.
Maclean fits in
THE FOREIGN
OFFICE SET-UP
T
show
HERE is a deceptive results are supposed to
air of quiet about the your reactions to emergency. little corridor, baro While
and wooden-partitioned, in going
the treatment in oni, careful note is
the Chancery Annexe of made of the candidate's party the massive red-bricked manners. How does he behave British Embassy in when he has had a few drinks? Would he be likely to get so Washington.
drunk that his tongue would get, out of control?
drab There is a
little machine outside one of the doors, from which you can draw an ice-cold drink,
Behind the doors, if you open them one by one, you would And drama. Every secret mes- age that passes between Britain and U.S.A. is decoded there. And when there is a quiver at the nerve centre, which is the Foreign Office in London, there is action behind those wooden doors in Washington.
In London, the quiver would be recorded first by the head of the
American
Desk, In Washington, it would be recorded Arst in the cypher room, passed on to the decoders, and through the then head of Chancery up to the Ambassador to the
and
down
FOR
Party man
KOR that is going to be impor- tant. If the candidate opte will for overseas service, he And that, besides the drudgery tele- of going through those
the grams
that pour
into
Cypher room, he will have to go out to parties--night after night-and there will be plenty set of people there to ply him with the little extra that could his tongue wagging.
will be And he entertain, too.
by VINCENT EVANS
who was in
Washington
two years
expected to
In the great
diplomatic cities, Bum- Ymer will just be turn- ing to autumn when the ambitious first secretary's thoughts will turn to trying to throw the senson's first party-before his nearest rival gets in,
That first job will Last. two probably
two years is what a Donald Duart Maclean-one years-for
calls a missing of the two
Foreign Foreign Service man
"tour of duty." Office men-had been both. He in head of Chancery WDS Washington, the man who de- eldes who sees the telegrams; and head of the American Desk in London, the man who drafts and sees the telegrams as they go.
First Secretaries.
Player?
tlic
come
alther Ile will then home to work in the Foreign Office (as Muclean did after his promotion to a Counsellor's job in Calro), or he will be sent out on another "tour of duty,
Compensation
TF he comes home, it will I' get into
probably be to a desk job which How do you
select, comparatively amall the American Desk,
is one of the create Mac can look, who group of men
administer the foreign plums for a promising young and polloy of Britain? It's no easy Job nowadays, although it was.
once
nen
There are nearly 5,000 in the Foreign Service, half of them working in London
at diplomatic, the other half consular, commercial and formation posts overseas.
and
in
It used to be only a boy from good public school who could get into the Service - not al ways because he was a good scholar, but because he was good at games.
man.
Though if he were sent on-
"Sergeant-tell that man if he removes his bearskin from his eyes, he'll see that the rest of us Antshed
N
was the lovel Guy Franels Burgess had reached there worked.
the would be for him again round of cocktail parties.
Trooping the Colour days ago."
ROYAL
-(London Expreza Service.)
DRUDGERY
placed
Too heavy a load is
on the King, the Queen and the Princesses
by
GWYN LEWIS
OT only the King at the Palace on July 3-the
but the whole Queen, and the two Princesses will be called upon to fulli 48 Royal Family is
public engagements. being grossly over-
In the opinion of doctors Fresent set-up in the there
an must be
im-
Foreign Office is this: at the mediate reduction of all head the Farelga Secretary
Below him to do the detailed royal public engagements.
Unless there is a change work is the Minister of State,
Below him are the Perman-
then
2
The Queen and her daughters can seldom
a
day through sce without three or four changes of clothes.
Trooping
man
Princess Elizabeth, too often Those who watched her Princess Elizabeth de- unfairly criticised for holiday trips to Malta, bears the putise brilliantly for the father at main burden with 30
engage her
ceremony ments. Her mother has eight; the
only
calm, EXW King and Princess Margaret have five each. These duties will take competent young wo country to Wales, East Anglia,
on horseback. the Royal Family all over the
But it is not easy the Midlands, and to the North.
for a rider to keep a horse almost motion- Inmediately on their return less for the greater from an exhausting tour of part of two hours.
The Princess, spent Princess Margaret-were-faced-much-time rehearsing. Northern Ireland, the Queen and with the elaborate ceremonial for her part in the that of the programme drawn up for the visit ceremony. And many tiring hours with her of King Haakon of Norway.
contunder for fittings
signed
ent and Parliamentary Under in the system and a new Secretaries. Below them again policy in
the relation to are the deputy under-secre- tarics. And
work they are come the amount of
called upon to do, it is like- Macleans,
But his kind of job has its compensations--whisky at 7y that the health of the a bottle, and everything that Queen and the Princesses you buy gets to you duly free.-as well as
If, for instance, you live in King-will be endangered. country where there is a tax
In the political service parli- cularly, it has been found that the tougher types athletes rather than "nesthetes-are more likely to resist being suborned. There is a story told of a first-class rowing man who
on mink coats, then you get in was up for his
preliminary tax free. You have a Civil Service examination, Pass ticket which you keep in your mork was 50 out of 100. wallet and when you go In to
The examiner asked the boy: make your purchase you "who wrote the Encld?" The produce the ticket,
ป
And, hey, presto, there's 25 That boy answered: "Homer.
And price. the examiner percent, off the was wrong. So
well at cocktail asked: "Do you know anything minks Jook else that Homer wrote?" The parties.
-(London Erprasa Service.) boy answered "No."
"And that," said the exami-
'ner.
"was quito
right.
It gave him his 50 marke.
So I passed him,”
Five pictures
DUT nowadays how do you
Bu
get there? A good honours
degree is necessary. Applicants go through "the country house treatment"three days of selec
tive examination.
gence,
partly psychological.
intelli- and
ONE
EVERYDAY STAREAL
VENE SPECIALS
48 engagements 4 Princeta Margaret recently of the specially de-
had five engagements in the one day, which kept her busy
just The facts speak for them until after two o'clock the next
morning. | selves.
she
word.
Next day she had
10
1
Between now and the end.
Doctors familiar with
the
A WAVE of the head to King Frederik
Ona and Queen Ingrid of Denmark. more duty in the thousands cheerfully undertaken by our Royal Family is completed.
for
Worcester travel to and her exhausting duty,
Concurrently she had to think of July, in a period of seven routine of a "royal visit" suy that what she wanted to say to a
the considerable mental fatigue weeks the King-who hopes to
imposed on the Royal Family is gathering of City business men | return to duly for the Investiture conducive to a variety of medical next day when she opened the
Congress of the Federation disorders to which other people Chambers of Commerce at Gro- are less prone.
AMERICA LEAVES
CRIME NETWORK
By Percy Hoskins
Yet members of the Royal Family are more conscious of physlent exhaustion at the time of these visits. They must endure prolonged standing and much. walking when seeing factories
As for the endless hand-shak- ing, on one occasion the Duke of Windsor had to wear a splint.
5-hour ordeal
cers' Hall
Sense of duty
of
In the coming weeks members of the Royal Family will be called upon to lay a foundation stone in London suburb, attend}] a maternity and child welfare conference, opon □ museum, Inspect cadets, visit the deaf and and dumb, and talk to waifa strays at an insillution devoted to their care.
arts
honour to keep another engage- ment,
It was too much. She apolo- gised to her hostess and smoked a cigarette.
ATL
The young Princessesg healthy and vigorous. They could no doubt tolerate for some years the madcap royal pace they are now expected to set. But could they endure this pace for ever?
We are turning the Royal Family into royal drudges.
-(London Express Service)
MUSEUM MEN TEST 'NEW GEM'
HULL. MONG several small
A pops of coloured stones
LISBON. It has robbed this world de- NE HUNDRED detec- lective network of, perhaps, its
tive-delegates from 38 most influential member.
ara discussing in The psychological test might nations
Edgar J. Hoover, head of the include having Ave pictures Lisbon the sudden resigna- F.B.I., explained: flashed before your eyes in a tion of the U.S.A. from the
I saw something of the ordeal
Royal services will be in de- that shaking hands can involve couple of minutes.
"We have Then you International Police Com-
discontinued our
services, recently mand by the military In Northern Ireland alt down and write a short
membership since experience when the Queen and Princess the medical profession, the teach story about each of them. The mission.
and has shown that the benefits are Margaret both shook hands with ing profession, the not commensurate with the ex-100 officials in a five-hour tour. selences, and various civic bodies. penditure of time and money," For each oficial the Queen Who loads the Royal Family
had a smile and with this mass of work?
collected in Ceylon during a The paradox Is that the world and Princess
months' trip, Mr detective organisation is robbed a few words of conversation.
There is a popular belief that soyen of Hoover's G-men at a time And all the time the Queen Court officials and advisers" are Kenneth Parkinson, 45-year- when their help is most obvious had to take discreet glances at responsible, but this is not sold Yorkshire expert in pro- ly needed.
her watch to ensure punctuality The Royal Family are alaves of I doubt whether it is simply
their own high sense of duty in clous stones, believes he may throughout the four.
an accepting the many engagements have
entirely new the question of the money which Haldway through if the Queen they do, caused Hoover to quit. Rather, and her daughter could allow I bellove, it was the contentious themselves no more than ten decision "of the commission-minutes for a cup of tea. which argues that its activities are completely non-political- to admit: countries just inside clothes suitable for the wide helps a host of charitable or- variety of royal duties is in it-ganisations; il fosters progress in self worrying and tiring.
every sphere, The
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the Iron Curtain.
minoral. Invitations and applications
British Muscum scientista pour into the Palace in an in-
are working on a reddish brown creasing stream, Royal visits are stone which Mr Parkinson found The business of dressing a good for trade, royal patronage in the collection.
"The hunt for semi-precious stoncs is a haphazard affair," mild Mr Parkinson. "The gemeg It is understandable for Mr Hoover to be reluctant to dia-
King, for instance, is Outwardly attendance at amologist does not know what he cuss police methods and security ready by 9 a.m. every morning banquet may seem an easy and has in his collection until there documents, pleasant duty, But men who have, has been very careful selection measures with men sympathetic to receive State to those who have organised an While this la going on his valet held the position of Lord Mayor and inspection, elaborate system of espionage in will be laying out the fast of of London. have said, at the end
**The abone now. In the hands Armorico-the country Hoover in perhaps half a dozen suits the of their year of office that their
King may have to wear in a health could not stand another of the British Museum may be paid to protect.
day.
month of mayoral, banqueting a now mineral-mor it'mMy hot,”
But it is a pity that the Ameri-
Mr Parkinson began his carver cans cannot alt in on the most An Investiture calls for naval So It. In with royalty, but for
a hobby, Ho: become so provocative of the commission's uniform. After this, the King the Royal Family there is no as
ase interested that ho gave up his problems the question of ex might have to put on Army or respite. Labster, chicken, tradition. Aim of the labon Air Force uniforms, followed paragus, sitwwberries and cream job of selling car accesories changer, into a confronted Princess Margaret and concentrated on the westch conference is to simudardiso pro- by further cedure, lo close the loopholes for lounge sult, and, later, evening after leaving the Buckingham for vryolylia and semi-precious
Palace banquet in King Haskon's i atones.