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IN
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1960.
His nose in everything!
WH
THEN Mr Macmillan announced the names of
his new 20-man Cabinet he should have added.
"and, of course, Sir Norman Brook.”
the
arc
For, as Cabinet Secretary and to Sir Norman la distil Cr Service overlord, Sir Ner- Cabinet's decisions-which
has exerled more real rver put to a vele-in a few power than many of the elected pithy sentences. Ministers he has seen come and
man
It 15 оп the basis of his g in the last 18 years.
of what happened Tennyson's poem The Brook" summaries. SLEITIS almost
prophetically that action is taken.
titled for this durable doyen of
The importante of this
home to me when I lunched and dined separately with two men who The 58-year-old former Wal. from different Ministries verhampton Grammar School had on that day attended the bay derives his back-stage samo megling at No. 10. power from three sources:-
Downing Street-"For men may function was forcibly brought come and men may go, but I go on forever."
Action
Each pave a different inter- pretation of Cabinet policy— *
covered by his own wishful thinking.
Lo
AGAIN
Chapman Pincher
PRESENTS THE SECRETS OF MEN WITH
POWER BEHIND THE SCENES
on any major
As head of the Civil Service hy controls the huge bureau-
Where did the real truth lie? cralie machine which governs
leit to Sir Norman With his The nation.
long. It was elegantly tailored legs stretched Brook's written summary under the desk in his Great decide. Brook's power is forti- of George Street office he sits at tied by the trust which succes- Brook is the man at his side.
He will miss the conference the centre of the vast Whitehall sive Prime Ministers have learn-
ed to place in him.
with Charicellor Adenauer in web.
Bonn this week only because it is not considered important enough to warrant his absence from Whitehall
2 With sole control over
top
promotions he decides whe will be the other chief operators of the machine.
3
he
Publicity? No
Much of Macmillan's imper- turbability springs from his confidence that he can delegate the burden of detail to Brook's meticulously manicured hands.
As Cabinet Secretary has been the trusted adviser of four Prime Ministers and Though discreetly stient at his Cabinet meetings. puts
Brook knows better than any imprint
on behind the State's affairs Minister what goes on
of those sloping eyebrows. through a peculiar feature procedure.
No shorthand notes are kept
Whenever the Prime Minister
Cabinet meetings. It is left travels to Washington, Moscow,
I'M HAVING
A HEAT WAVE!
Moscow.
the last four week-
ends on the banks of
the Muscova River I col-
tan as anything Austra- lia could offër.
A sizzling heat wave, with day after day of temperaturus in the 90s, has tamed Moscow into a suntanned Riviera city,
BY ROSS MARK
THE ONLY RESIDENT BRITISH NEWSPAPER REPORTER IN ÉVÉDLA
or a snack. With my unlather at a temperature of 72 degs. streets, to see Russian men il will be upen for sacrificing convention in the in- lected as bronze a sun ed bouy I felt a wee bit out of Scen
it at the beach of Uspenskaya. Muscovites, and as many as terest of comfort.
a food chor One I saw in 30,000 a day are expected for a This is where Nikit
swin. It really is a bath that pulled off his shirt and walked Khrushchev has his country has the stuff of a Reman em- inconcernedly into Gorki Street dachs. The cher morning I
in his singlet. peror's dream. watched a bather wincel hi
In modern concrete form sur- Nearly every day for the last bicycle straight into the river Lounding the great
saucer are few weeks there has been a with him. When he had washed
cloudburst and drenching.
in the seven changing pavilions himself he polished up his
three cafelerias. There is even u
afternoon. It is tropical in its machine.
pebble beach for sunbathing, Im- intensity, with Moscow streets. sports- ported Downstream another
whole from the Black running a foot or more deep in water. man was scrubbing his dog. But Sea, admired most
Many men and women pull the man i
of their the
tenderly
shoes and paddle fellow who
through, ignoring the pounding sponged is panama. When he had it clean his wife helpi him to block it with, a solid cream done ug that brought the
The weather has been 11 holiday "camp manager's drean Muscovites 5,000.000 strong have been responding 15 weather such as has not been known in living memory.
IN THE RIVER
I joined the Muscovites ir dodging the heat, I have
my share in helping the citizing
polish off 17,000,000 pints
kvass (a brew of brown bread the panama
and sugar) and 180 million tons
WHE
ON THE HOP
I have found Russion ice in for the sake of a fev
quite a treat, For 15 minutes coolness,
missions, of turving no overt political afelation, he is also on intimate terms with prominent Socialists, such as Mr Douglas Jay..
As if to preserve the protocol
The extent of his Influence
differ showed itself in some ences he had recently with s top civil servant, The civil servant's boss, a possible future
SHE'S
TWO
Prime Minister, failed to sup servants that any information port him in the argument for not officially made public counts fear of "Crossing Norman as an Official Secret. Brook."
How.
As a result he has unwittingly... The agenda for Cabinet mest made the newspapers an even demo- ings is inranged by Brook and more essential pillar of he advises the Prime Minister .any. The
public and the He is "Chef-de- parliamentary back bench on priorities, Cabinet" in the grandest sense gets more information about the Government and the double meaning.. aptly activities of the apples. He supplies the in- through the undercover inquiries gredients, ranges the menu, of the newspapers than through
official channels. and serves up the final dish.
Like most men who prefer to work in the shadows detests publicity, He believes the public need not know what is being done in its name unless and until the Machine" de- cides to announce it.
His hobbies Brook
It is largely through his Influence that the British Gov. ernment now operates under * blanket of official secrecy more sound-proof than that of any ather European country save Spain and Portugal
of
Brook is a keep golfer, but not keen enough to be caught ca the course in a crisis. He keeps himself on continuous tap by relaxing in the workshop of his Chelsea home, where he has taught himself to be a high- class cabinet-maker.
It is said that Brook wants to retire at 60, though he could go on until 65. As administrator what Few such figures, give up the Whitehall calls "the Slush" reins of power until they must, the block vole allotted for but if he does he should have no Intelligence and security--he financial difficulties.
If ever he felt able to write has direct links with M.I.5 and
his memoirs, there would be à the Secret Service.
His bored of "Teaks," even of queute longer than Whitehall to the most harmless information, buy them.
all civil
London Express Séroles). induced him to warn
60 NOW!
women sat in front of me at the cinema.
I could not see their faces, only hear their
voices.
AND IF YOU
A newsreel was showing in which the Queen THINK SHE SMILES
Mother, in a feathered hat, held the centre of the stage.
As usual one of the secrets not a synthetic Hollywood smile. of her self-presentation-she f really means something. walked a little. more slowly Something that than any other member of the receiving line Royal Family.
their lives."
those on the remember all
Slowly towards tier car. I remember such a moment raising her hand in graceful myself, when I found myself salutation, as though she had sitting on a platform with her all the time in the world left to for a ceremony at a cripples' her and this was the only place home. She wore bright violet that day, a colour which on she wanted to be.
most middle-aged women would look ridiculous but on her seemed entirely suitable and becoming.
No film star could have made a more effective or professione exit. I decided..
+T
Then the voices in front of The smail, crippled children me started picking again.
came up one by one with their wish she'd stop smiling. She's nome-made gifts. I watched always smiling. I gets on my her bend down to speak with nerves. But then life has been them. Each one entirely easy for her..."
absorted her attention; to each Has !!?
one she said something different abid spontaneous. It: was D revelation in human behaviour.
A légend
True she married
was
for love, Then she got up again to but she had as her mother-in- speak herself, adter a series of thal law a prototype whom she could the stereotyped addresses brim from an ice-packed hand trolley, Many Muscovites, take refuge
someone are handed out in front of who was already a legend in royalty. down to its proper sile around women sell verious flavours of in dachas on the river banks not hope to emulate
rumerous Lake:
her lifetime.
Insiently the atmosphere of his cars. (When I left the beaen zee cream in blocks. It goes and by the
looked spanking with fruit flavour, mixed or doiting the Moscow pinewoods
plain, chocalate covered if you surrounding. Tens of thousands She herself was small, cosy changed. The audience did not clean and as good as new),
push off to the Black Sea ports. looking, completely royal in lean forward because it And one night I was invited want it, of ice cream per day..
aud splash
This heat wave has caught
But this year the people who looks. And then suddenly. Queen Elizabeth but because of And I have driven out to the along for a free
critically, fantastle most Russians lacking in sum stayed Lehind in Moscow have unexpectedly.
she the compelling timbre Moscow's sandy plunge in pleasant
As found herself
of voice and because of what she can mer clothes, for normally the had as good a time of "plages,"
mistress swimming pool. I
in said. beaches on the Muscova River,
a tpport the Russia is that this summers here comprise only a anyone, and a mark of disting Buckingham Palace, after
the upper tem- tion these days in Russia is to upheaval that 90 nearly de- big show of their dip. Usually is the biggest and be pool la few days in
of the have a really authentic Moscow stroyed the mystique peratures, à Europe, they take along a sponge,
So huge It
monarchy for ever. 3 is shaped like scrubbing brush, cake of soap. and an unskinned cucumber saucer. lled with water kept the most
The Russians often make
GOES
MAC
HOME
HOME
BACK
MAC
WE WANT
WATKINSON
MAD
ABOUT
RAB
SWEE
BACK
MAC
BACK MAC
WIN WITH SELWYN
IMA
NABARRO
BOY
TONAB HOT RAB
now
TON
it is common, even in on.
fashionate Moscow
CRONY
CROSLAND
FOR
HOME
MATE
MAC
PUNNING
BACK
MAC
BAL
MAC
ALL HANDS
FOR SANDYS
ENOCH
15
KENOCH
DRAST LAMBTON
HUGH
FOR
YOU
ALL THE
WAY WITH DOUGLAS JAY
60 TO 10WN
WITH
LABOUR
PARTY
WE
-(London Express Service).
JOY TRROUG
ROY RIN
(HUGH,
HUGH FOR YOU
HUGH
FOR
YOU
WANT WILSON
HUGH
RICK
DICK
MAJOR
BARBARA
Vicky's dreadful nightmare after his return om covering the American party convention
of
her
Compassion
no colourless
Even today, when it is all a No platitudes.
TOO EASILY
by
Godfrey Winn
sense
of you that that she is the lightest
dancer on the floor.
past chapter in the history phrases. Instead she reached slightly off-beat books of our times, King right to the heart of all truth. baumour. George VI'S consort still when she stressed the need,
Yet, close 79 they are believes still broods ovÉT her
above all else, for compassion. together, the Queen Mother has the final lesson, the most im conviction that having to take She repeated the word more over the affairs of State fre than once. his elder brother definitely shortened her husband's life,
Her antipathy towards the Duchess of Windsor is corres paringly implacable. But what is the use of that row.
I thought: this is not just shother speech written by Palace official. Later, I learned how if had happened.
Thirdly for everyone, she has
laken enormous care never to
portant of all. To be yourself, interfere obtrusively in her At all times, first and last, your
believes She daughter's life.
seit. with complete conviction thal
At Princess Margaret's, wed- the young must make their own decisions.
ding in the Abbey, I watched That is the great example she her alone, among the bevy of En
route the Queen Mother has for all mothers, whild for royal ladies, go right down ch had lunched with
Lady those
fucing
God's the her knees to pray When during the King's last Dorethy Macmillan, and as soon problems of growing older she blessing. liness there were nights when as the meal was over the royal has another lesson to teach. he tossed restlessly, the nurse guest had taken her speech uu? Instinctively werf in search of of her handbag and sibod be- the same remedy.
The cripples
side the mantelpiece newriling
It herself, in her own language.
ครู
worn.en
Prayer
for
The others bent their heads,
She carefully, conventionally. was completely unaware of the eyes upon her, lost in the While they in a panic rush surrender of the moment..
And when at the end of the Her whole life is as personal from diet to diet, té aquire a
the bride curtsled that. One great advantage
nature teke Its to her sister the Queen it was She would fetch the Queen she has over ming of 1, fashionable silhouette, the Queen peremony
smile which from her room, and in her other members of the family Mother lets
still has a skin like a girl, un illuminated the tableau for us quilted blue dressing-gown, his into which she married she course, with the result that she the mother's
fact, consort would sit beside the "as not born royal.
bounding energy. end though all. her ancestors was
Now she is 80 years young. man who adored her, and hold le of his hand til at fast he slept.
called Smith, and stid lus hever she wears exaggeratedly tall
pivals on them with controlled of the journey. Was it easy for her to go on allowed her personality to be heels to give her height, she Let us wish her well for the rest Emiling the public then?
(London Express Service); corroded by protocol.
grace, and her partners will tell
Or when a widow, in charge Even after all, the pomp and
of the family now, she was ceremony which she has been ---- faced with a different kind of subjected perhaps because of constitutional cris.
ft-she still enjoys home-made
..
Her younger daughter's ill- amusements besi. fated romance with the hand- Family games like charades, some courtier whom the mother her younger daughter dožig her had chosen to be her Comp- Imitations at the piano," week- troller at Clarence HousÉ.
ensis at Sandringham when, 80AB, a pet rattlesnake, will soon have a block of fals to himg Front-page gossip, world-wide after dinner, she would summon 01 Ban Francisco,
speculation, the kind of publi- her page to
the produce
city for the family which as a enchanted box of masks when a Oscar escaped from his glass case recently. His owner, 23 girl Bootland Elizabeth transformation scene would take year-old Elmer Davis, hastily moved out and took his family with Bowes-Lyon had instinctively place, with everyone laughing him. Other tenants followed mit ---
baen brought up to deplore. and dicing to the gramophone.;
But through it all she went And she loves the earthy
“Ten murg hứa sun in the building,” said the shake
on performing her royal duties, words and fiting tees of old who was elite in,” “He's is dangerous se a loaded gun.*** on the surface urine and songs like Burlington Berike," umshakth in chit-control
-But at wilét a cost The elder daughter, who
beara ber men grew up pain-750 hire aʼdaptain of the French Republican Guard, complete with vat longed to Tean forward in fully, 47. Ek4 per fare and plumed helmet, white: breeches, and mounted on a horse, how that cinenia and share the paternal grasino her. It was costs 17.70 new francs (£138, 14.); for xbt Hours Sergeant foto Voices in fret et me into Margaret Who Przerited her majors: 81 or 9: Other ranke, 181, 24. Zan reog meetings and 10000 ZR75 st them mother'
unselfsporting events the tarifs dre- Kigher, "Ekit, at any rate, her enda
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