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THE
A
RE wo recruiting the best type of men
for
the Foreign Service? Recent events have raised doubts.
Wag The Foreign Office built up on centuries of honourable tradition, Great care was taken that only men of unshakable charac- ter were chosen to repre- sent us abroad.
Selection of a high stan- dard was reasonably easy before the war, when the staff whole Foreign Office
at
home
and abroad totalled fewer than 2,000.
Today it numbers
than 6,000.
FOREIGN
OFFICE
SCANDAL
by
VICTOR
GORDON LENNOX
Competition more
involve
ap politically. four First
#
country
certain dip
are which
in
is keen. At a might recent examination, 300 plicants competed for
For example, £1,000 a year posts on rem Has this expansión
customs tomatic Secretary.
observed sulted in a decline in quali-
*ceremoniously
outside
Iron ty? Have the basic virtues Prospects of promotion have "copitals
brighter. been
With Curtain
not necessarily ате insisted upon
-in- never
reasonable luck a 24 years old followed by embassies inside the tegrity, a deep sense of Third Secretary can look forward Curtain. justice, unquestionable to being a First Secretary in six been or seven years. At 40 or earlier loyalty and honour subordinated to mere intel- he has a good chance of earning,
£1,500 to £2,000 as a Counsellor, lectual ability?
once
a.
On arrival at his foreign post the new secretory is advised by a senior member of the embassy to whom and to whom not his cards should be sent, and on whom and whom not he should pay courtesy calls,
Once
At the outset the going is rough for the young Third Secretary who has survived the ordeal of the "country-house" tests.
on Trying to manage
his cards have
on Д
been
selection How is the made? First, applicants face
examination. written Then, under what is known £400 a year is something of a delivered-one is generally dis- DA the "country-house" strain. scheme, those who passed the written test spend week-end in a club atmo- sphere being put through a variety of intellectual and psychological tests.
His carly career Is not a particularly glamorous. The tray in his uncarpeted "in" rubicle at the Foreign Office is
forever stacked with papers,
DUTY ABROAD AS he plods through his monu- tous tasks he dreams of his first posting abroad and the
This scheme, -launched in 1946 and centred first on the Manor House, Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey, at 2 cost of £500 a week, has of living. been severely criticised.
were
of necompanying rewards allowances and a better standard
He views with envy colleagues
In the House of Lords at neighbouring desks who, with foreign service to their credit, Lord Cherwell said the.
are entitled to annual allowances "country house" parties of £125 untaxed for entertain- producing "smart ment, £210 (taxable) for rent, £ 150 (taxable) for Alecs who can sell 12 cars and
children's education. in an hour to an Aber-
In most embassies abroad the diplomat's financial position is donian."
THE SYSTEM DESCRIBING the "mental agility" tests, he said: "One candidate was asked to join up a series of dots
make up some to arranged figure--almost an introduction to doodling.
more enviable,
circumstances.
:
played
board in the embassy vestibule for all and sundry to see he can expect to be invited out every night of the week, either to formal diplomatic parties which sometimes end up receptions or to less conventional merrily in the small hours.
However, it is on the Im- pression he creates at his first
his that
continued party popularity as a mixer depends.
If he is bibulous and talkative, as some newcomers naturally are, he may find himself im- blackballed, which mediately means he does not get an invitin tion to that particular diplomat's house again.
STRICT GUARD
ON
N the other hand, this may virtue in the houses of diplomats be considered a praiseworthy who may not be on particularly friendly terms with his country.
She was under the Impression that the discussion was the usual free and easy one and was not aware that a senior American ofckal was making a mental note of her observations,
To her dismay she was cum- moned to the embassy a few hours later, after the party, and told that her presence in the capital was no longer re- quired as she had expressed views which were not considered becoming to a friendly nation.
Within n fortnight of her arrival she was on her way home again, a wiser woman.
Friendship between men and of various embardics abroad is carefully watched.
women
Many of thom are of course quite innocent, but not a few garrulous Romeos have been known to be checked by a Counsellor and in some cases by the ambassador himself.
TH
PITFALLS
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| POCKET CARTOON' by OSBERT Lancaster
BRATROZ
SHADO
"My dear, he's feeling rather 2010 as lie's the only intelleo tual in London who's not vet been asked for his remi niscences at either Maclean
or Burgess."
number of countries to which he To marry in can be posted. deftance of a warning may mean enforced resignation.
In London the Foreign Office ane ex- heads of departments pected to know their juniors and to exercise general guidance over their private lives. But, in fact, pressure of duty provides little oppertunity for such supervision.
How offelently are candidates screened for loyalty before en- tering the service?
In a newspaper interview re cently a Junior diplomat posted back from the U.S. was described as a violent Americaphobe with Communist sympathies, a heavy drinker, rude and indiscreet, and fithy in appearance.
That description provides a perfect Illustration of all the cardinal sins e diplomat must never commit. If it is true, it is appalling evidence of inadequate screening.
such a
THERS whose conversations
have been considered in- In the old days discreet have been warned that character would not have stood thoro is such a thing as the a chance of passing the Civil Official Secrets Act.
Service Commissioners.
Each member of the Foreign
Service of course has to sign a declaration that he has read it on his oppointment,
What are the pitfalls he must avoid?
In choosing his friends, both at home and abroad, he is cautioned to remember that he
But then the doors of the Foreign Office were only partly
opened, and it was possible to check the entrants as they moved through in skugle file.
men,
American column
Men only on Isle of Scotch
From NEWELL ROGERS NEW YORK,
ARADISE Found? On a
PARAD igle in the blue
Pacific there is all the Scotch you may want at 1s. a drink.
The run nearly always shines. It is never cold, There is fine surf. for bathing.
With all this, there are good hotels, beach clubs, 1Wo athletic fields, two cinemas, a library, and a church. Mess Lew halls serve meals for a shillings,
of Eden Like the Garden before Eve, this is a womaniess 8,000 paradise. And although men live there, it is almost as hard to enter as was the origi- nal Paradise.
In place of an angel with a flarning sword, warships patrol Warplanes, approach. every sweep 30,000 square miles of sky around It,
For this paradise la on Eni- wetok, The 8,000 men are scientists and naval officers and ratings. There the atom bombs go off.
Paradise Lost?
women'
A CONGRESSMAN is seeing stars. Lansdale Sarscer plans lo Introduce a Bill giving women army and alr forco offers brigadier ranic and naval officers rear-
The admiral rank.
admirala would wear two stars on their' shoulders; the brigadiers one.
SUNSHINE CRUISES for millionaires in the Cunard liner Caronia are going t have competition in the aky. Airlines persuade. 15 minnering to trade
a 27,000-mile caviar and cham- pagne cruise Insting 37 days. Cost per day-£142.
Was
✡
POLICE NEW BLOOD
who arrested Thomas Ortiz for selling dopo TODAY reforms have thrown say he signalled to addicts to tie doors wide open and come up and buy the "dream stuff" by stirring the pigeons is never "Off. parade." He is the crowd is pushing through.
on his rooftop into flight? advised to be constantly on guard
And they tell how Bernard By encouraging new blood, the against people who may try to
Cortijo, also establish a hold over him through reforms have certainly raised the ("Tiger Boy") moquote him le
services rendered" or who may intellectual standards of the arrested, advertised his deadly "come-and-get-fl” Many brilliant young drugs. His conversations.
subsequent service,
who would never
bright yellow have sign
the sports shirt with a tiger em- survived the "old school He must beware of the method of selection, are now broidered on it. In this case he is invited to
to com- giving the nation a benefit of join smaller and more select foreigner who secks
promise him by circumstances their brains. parties, where without the
or Ananelal transactions. of senior
One of the strioler Don'ts is restraining influence diplomats he can behave with
that he must not fewer inhibitions.
a foreigner without first obtaining Even
has to keep he has 30 strict guard on his tongue. For permission to do so. The choice wife can easily make or the anti-American views expressed of
mar his career. at such a party last November a
Apart from the social aspects, process young woman member of our Foreign Service was seat home marriage with a foreigner may without delay. from an Iron Curtain capital. limit is scope and restrict', the
With allowances amounting sometimes to more than double his salary, he can live in fairly His luxurious office accommodation is spacious sad better furnished.
n
Before he sets out on his first
abroad pre- tour of duty
is expected to diplomat familiarise himself with secret book of diplomatic usage and etiquette.
every young
"Another candidate was
This volume lisis a long guide shown a heap of bricks and to possible social blunders which asked to say how many sides were exposed. Two men- who are doing well at the Foreign Office failed.
were
"A reputable paychiatrist, who submitted himself to
one test incognito,
marked definitely
normal'."
Was sub-
marry
But recent events raise the disturbing thought that, men of inferior enlibre are also slipping into the service undetected,
It would seem imperative that more adequate screening should be organised
-(London Express Service.)
FATHER CHRISTMAS being socked in the rack byi the price controllers. They tell toymakers to sell af Government-fixed prices. Some toymakers complain that this means they must raise prices.
PRICES go down and down. In Houston, Texas, you
can buy a new two-door saloon car for £040. Official control. led price-£108.
REUTER'S IS A HUNDRED YEARS OLD
0
By Fraser Wighton
on the
for two days the British Go- train or ship, to link up with which had always steadily re-
vernment and the British Army existing telegraph communica- fused his offers of service.
in the fleld find to rely tions. But he found various The first Reuter message in Rouler message as the only con NE hundred years of land and India, the Reuler means of Improving the service. the now service went out on armallon that Mateking had
news gathering will Agency's ideal is stily honest. The carrier pigeon-used by October 8, 1858, Five days later, been relieved.
impartial reporting. The Deed be celebrated when constituting the Trust provides Reuter in emergency as recently on October 13, the editor of The
3. Exclusive Reuter reports Times, Mr Mowbray Morris, in steam In 1948 a report by the Reuters, the world news that integrity, independence and as World Select Committee on agency,
freedom from bias shall be packet and the hansom cab were the words of his own diary: in 1945 which disclosed Heinrich "Saw Reuter about telegrams of Himmler's secret attempts to Estimates
preserved at all times, and that all brought into use to serve the soreign news. He agreed to send negotiate the surrender of Nazl expressed the tenary in London this I shall
shall never pass into the interests of speed, the system month. opinion that favoured candidates who were quick at intelligence
reaches its cen-
hands of any Blogle interest, In a century of news group or fac-
has tests but might lack quali-gathering, it
grown tion. ties essential for the sen from a tiny London office
The founder to be one of the biggest in- of this vice.
great ternational organisations of Trust, Julius
Reuter, was its kind. The Manor House
bear but the closed down, "country-house" system is
had bank
Whatever the merits
before
the
Its radio and other high clerk, book- etill in operation at more speed communications girdle seller and pub-
lisher, modest premises near the earth, serving thou- he tried to es- sands of newspapers and tablish a news Sloane Square, London.
numerous broadcasting net- agency on of works spread over the five
continent. After one Indiume, the "country-house" system continents, and transmit however, due to of selection may be, it is ting hundreds of thousands stronger now producing young of words daily. diplomats at an rate of 25 a year.
average
That figure represents a proportion of one successful candidate out of every 20 applicants.
REFORMS
WEEPING reforms were i
economic ared social affairs.
+
com-
petitors, he de- elded that the Its full-time world staff London Anan- consists of over 2,000 cial maricet people.
offered him the of best chance building up 3 successful.com- mercial tele- gram service,
;
War II-the
all to us and to charge us only Germany to Britain and the The
Hitler's frat for what we publish for 2s. 6d. United States behind
is back. seven years of for 20 words if his name Heuter's work quoted, and 5s, if not quoted."
in London were
ать
According to historians of the
For, another six weeks. The last days of the Nazi leaders, uphill
While Times pald for the luxury of Hitler heard of the negotiations struggle. While stockbrokers not acknowledging Reuler. The through a broadcast Reuter and merchants first acknowledged telegram was port. It was this report, his
quoted as received in Reuter's torians say, which made Hitler readily sub-
office on December 7, 1858. realise that suicide might have his scribed to
to be his way of escape and telegram ser-
As the agency grew, its re- caused him to mame Admirat vice, news- putation gained International Doanitz as his successor instead, papers were lustre from objective reporting of Himmler.
and of world events and from a rue- suspicious
According to the American preferred to make their own cession of "news beats" that judge. Mr Justice Michael A.
remain milestones in the Reuter
Musmanno, who arrangements
century, for oblaining news.
nitended, the Nuremberg trials as a United Three of the outstanding ones, States naval observer, It was a Reuter Here, too, which spread almost evenly over the deelded the fatal day, Bul Router hundred years, were:.. steadily bullt
up a chain of
1. The dramatic despatch of
Sir Christopher Chancellor, mense value to
businessmen. Kenter's Genoral Manager,
He began by providing busi- One day In September 1855,
*
Mr Justice Musmanno spent...... correspondents James McLean, Reuter's New throughout York Correspondent, which in months in collecting and sitting 1805 gave the world the news evidence taken from esewit- Europe-whese of President Lincoln's assassina- nesses of what happened in Hife despatches were on
tion:
ler's
personal bunker during the proving of im~ With other correspondents, last days of the march on Ber- Methods of news gather-
McLean got the news from in. In his book Ten Days, to Washington too late to catch the Die," he records that Hitler, on ing and distribution have
mall boat at the New York April 30, 1945, found on his
rivals changed spectacularly since
reconclled desk a copy of a Reuter report the meeting of Paul Julius Reuter,
a ness clients--brokers and mer- Reuter messenger arrived at the whard. His telegram
next boat. McLean hired a tug, Wench's 12th Army and Burse's announcing "Good troduced during the war to Cassel-born German, with chants in London and Faris London Stock Exchange with a themselves to waiting for the announcing democratise the Foreign Office the help of a 12-year-old with opening and closing prices News from Siege of Sebastopol," chased and caught the ocean- 9th Army.
agbing ship and threw his mess- "All that remains of the 9th Army, a tattered and miserable In order to bring into the seroffice boy, laid the founda of stock exchanges in both cap! He was seized, hoisted on
host of gaunt, hobbling
men, vice men with unlesstarting of tions of the now world- tais. But he was already plan- chair and cheered by the men age aboard.
ning to develop a service of bers. The news sent stocks
wounded, starved and spiritless, wide agency in a small office overseas political news for the soaring.
reached the Elbe river where It Pay and allowances were in- in the Royal Exchange, daily newspapers in London. Three years later, Reuter
2. The
news of the relief of was welcomed by what was lent creased to encourage the entry of London, In 1851.
which provided a of the 12th Army alter its re Those were the days before the broke into the London news Mateking, men without private means,
The 36-year-old Julius, 'telephone.
There was a tele papers. The editor of the Mor world scoop for Reuter's Beer treat from Potsdam," Hitler read Ing Advertiser, organ of the War correspondent at Pretoria, and realised that the miracle The improved conditions havs on whom a German barony phaystems in Britain and Licensed Victuallers Associn W. H. Mackay, who got the news for which he had been hoping drawn a food of applications from bright young men in every was later conferred, was telegraph' lines in France, Bel- tion, accepted his offer of a tree or by persuading the driver would not happen.
He committed suicide, says Me social sphere. For diplomacy is richly endowed with gum and Germany. But there triad service for a fortnight of a train to Lourenco Marques now a lucrative carcor.
imagination. But evon he was no Atlantic cable, no tele- after a long and persuasive fa to hide his despatch to the Justice Musmanno, that the
Eva Braun. Bolaries at the moment are:- could hardly have dreamed graphic ink with the Far East told the editor, you had Eastern Telegraph Company in day with his newly wed with
it resched. London on Friday,
Julfus Router pied in 1890, Third Secretary. 400-Esco; that his venture would, in or Australia, nor indeed with the turned down my offer, I would of his dinner sandwiches.
Mediterranean countries apart have closed down my business. May 10, 1900, Mr Joseph Cham on the eve of the century which Second Secretary, 2010-£750 less than 100 years, become from Frones. · Memages, - now
soto transforma Heartened by he acceptance, berlain announced to an exclled wron First Secretary, £1,000-£1,376;
took
editors of the other London, tion fus been received, but I business that even a few seconds ***ing - Trust which it is too the world, sometimes Ambassador, £1,700-£3,500;
Kép months to reach London,
-Thewspapers of the day-and ob- have no reason to doubt, the advantage In fine my mean a In addition, diplomats who day. serve abroad are entitled to Now owned by the newspaper In the marty days of the agency, tained similar promises of a accuracy of Reuter's Informa work nows bout" SUPPL rengrova: allowances.
of Britalo, Australia, New Zea-Router relied on the mall, by trial from all, coupt The Times, tion."
tervlow. At the end of It, Jullus
the
Counsellor, £1,500-£2,000; and the groat non-profit, mak- 'flashed in seconds from all parts however, he went on to mo ibe - Parliament: "Noi final confiers: mechanics of the news agency!
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