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The Prime Minister with his "sending-off" party at Heston. Sir Alexander Cadogan is Permanent. Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office. You know the others.
The Men at
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1930.
THE KING & QUEEN P
OF CANADA
ROBABLY until recently
many people had never heard the name. Then the newspapers report that Mr.
Messages from Canada re- Chamberlain on his visit to Herr
Hitler is to be accompanied by chief in- Sir Horace Wilson,
ment."
And
last at
another
Elbow
joice over the announcement [that the King and Queen intendustrial adviser to the Govern-trial adviser to the Government. Five years later he was seconded visiting the Dominion early this
to the Prime Minister for special summer. For the first time a
duties. In the Interim the world reigning British Sovereign and mystery man of politics
still
uncomprehending. Horace emerges froin the drowsy Wilson had arrive his Consort will be welcomed in
shadows of Downing Street He was then, as he is now, physi- the New World-and what a
into the full glare of
world cally unimpressive. publicity.
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Two of the Commonwealth States, Australia and New Zen- land, have already had the op- portunity of greeting King George and Queen Elizabeth in their days as Duke and Duchess of York. Before ascending the throne, they also visited Africa. But to Canada falls the supreme honour of receiving them as King and Queen.
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An announcement that the moon had been detected in de viation from its predicted course may have produced correspond- ing perturbations in astronomi- cal circles, but to the lay public it was hardly news. Inconstancy in the moon was entirely in character and was just what might be expected. Have not the poets through the ages testified to this inconstancy; and have they not been as diligent observers of the moon. Was as any astronomer? It Millon himself who foresaw what has now been charged against Earth's satellite when he wrote of
The wandering moon. Ruling to her highest noon Like one who had been ied
Astrak
Through the braven's wide path-
less way.
Milton, it will be observed, with the magnanimity of a great poet, suggested an extenuntion for the irregularity which he recorded, and notably enough the plea is admitted to be valid. Milton was not merely merelful, he was just.
For it turns out that the moon has in fact been led as- tray. Her conduct has been anket entirely irreproachable
worthy of a well-conducted Indy. If she has seemed to deviate from her predicted course the fault is not hers, but that of the
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whose rotation on his axig bas been inconsistent. Confirmatory evidence of this irregularity has been obtained from a number of trust-worthy witnesses-the Sub, Venus, Mercury and Mars -who agree in fixing the res- wponsibility on the Earth.
It a nut a bit too soon. Horace Wilson is too ureful a man to be
kiden away in that rufiy, rather So few people notice him when overcrowder offer of : on the he Turn every morning Into Brat oor of No. 10, just a few steps Downing Street and knock on the ttp from Mr. Chamberlain's own door of No, 10, study. You ought to know about
Which Is precisely as he wants him.
It. In the block of mansion flats in Who is he? What is he like? South Kenshigton where he lives Well, it is a long story. But from Monday to Friday, few of the can be summed up in a single sen- other tenants even know his name. Sir Horace Wilson is the in a pleasant part of Sussex, where tenee. power behind Mr. Chamberlain's he has a "country place" such as
elbow.
you would expect a £3,000 a year Civil servant to maintain, he keeps himself to himself. His wife and his son and two daughters are schooled th the same tradition of
reserve.
The man whom the public does not know is at once the thinking hox and the sounding box of the He is not a good mixer--a fact | Prime Minister, First. Neville which can hardly have helped him Chamberlain thinks. Then Sir in the industrial disputes lie was Horuce thinks it out-and finally set to solve. the Prime Minister acts.
There was the general stoppage Fifty-six years ald.
G.C.B. of 1925. He was the man behind G.C.M.G.. C.B.E. Wilson is the the scenes then-Government go- Government handyman, head of between working 20 hours a day. the unofficial brains trust that has as unruffled when he finished as sprung up round Mr. Chamber when he started. There was the
in.
Now that Sir Maurice Hankey is coal stoppage of the same year where arain he diaplayed his gone, Wilson is the most powerful almost frightening eapaelly for Civil servant of the whole 400,000 keeping cool.
sir
Warren Fisher, of the
Ile has looked grim a good many
Treasury, their permanent hend, times now. When he was sent up not excepted. He has the Cabinet's to Manchester to try to rationalise ear-and the Cabinet's confidence. Since the slump of 1931, It has been his "Yes" or "No" which has
made or damned the work-unding Schemes of dozen Ministers.
The cotton trade.
When he went to Outawwn as one of the advisers who helped to produce that kumentable series of agreements. When he walked through Down- In Street these last few mornings. There he comes and goes with Kreater freedom than most
Cabinet. member of the
They mur be sent for; he is always at
H
it. I who is credited with the Iden of sending Lord Runcimian to Prague. No doubt he urged Mr. Chamberlain to take that plenie to Hitler.
He astonished them when they heard that he was going to Berch- tesgaden, too. For though Sir Horace belongs to the Travellers' Club, he 14 stay-at-home Englishman, seldom travelling farther than to his house in Sussex, And at last it is omeint con- firmation of all the gossips have said. Sir Horace Wilson is big.
But not popular. Those who dis- Be him believe that his Influence on the Government, his closeness to Mr. Chamberlain, is dangerous. Mr. Chamberlain thinks otherwise.
And now for Mr. Chamberlain's other companion on this peace mission.
If an Under-Secretary of State. or somebody of the kind, should happen to say in your hearing, "I should like William's views on thin," you can be sure of two things.
First, that it is a knotty prob- lem. Second, that Mr. Willion
Strang, C.M.G., M.B.E., is going to be consulted.
"William." as all the Foreign Office calls him, la one of the ex- ceptions to the old rule that you can never be anybody in the service unless you are Eton and Harrow and Christchurch and Trinity, and all that,
He was shocking) not at a publiz School He was itut-tut) at Lăndon University; then at the Borbonne, in Paris, just before the war.
He served in the Berkshires and on the staff. wid when it was all over, went, win the Peace Conference, into the diplomatic nervice as Thini Secre tary at Belgrade. Since then he has gone up and up, because there days sheer ability really does cout,
Strang's ussetn are
on Infinite capacity for working at top apced for long hours, att excellent cumioand of languagest, a cool shretvil Judgment.
• What a wise owl it is” said a cer- min Secretary of State, affectionately referring to William'a round spectacles, 1 encyclopedic knowledge, à gift for getling on with people, and a takling sense of humour.
He takes his job seriously,
You would take him perhaps for a cludent rather than for a diplomat. And you would not be for wrout.
He likes to spend 'llà evenings not in society" but reading diplomatic history. That is one reason for his Javel sense of proportion. He can sro things in perspective.
He is only 45. But he has been Charge d'Affaires in Moscow, Chief of the League of Nations Section, hend of the Central European Department -his present job. 5oon be will be a Minister somewhere; the Omee in going to miss him badly when that
day comes
Willimhas his own views about policles and people. But it would be indiscreet to talk of them. He, being the soul of discretion, never does. He is an oficial.
The P.M. could not have a belter ex- pert at his side than the "wine owi" with the quiet smile
In the House of Hitler
Discovered by Mr. Lloyd George, Irlend of Earl Baldwin. adviser to Mr. J. H. Thomas (who called him
The door swung phone, bathroom and its fresh "ruddy
wonder."
also I was up a steep ascent of to the house. and
1,000 feet from his hotel that open, showing him and his party "Orace "), he is now counsellor- in-chlef to the Prime Minister. Mr. Chamberlain was taken to into a dimiy-lit hall.
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Do not doubt that in these vital Hitler's fortress-chancellery. hours the almost unknown 6ir Horace Wilson's influence on your own destiny-and that of every other citizen-is very real.
And, since this is an odd' world, do not be surprised to learn that he looks rather like an ageing and unsuccessful clerk whose firm ex- pects to be bankrupted next week.. Such is the way of things.
He was born in Bournemouth where his parents led a respectable Ar unexciting ire. Horace Joh went to Kurnelin School round the corner until his aptness for figures decided Mr. Wilson, snr, that his boy should go up to the London School of Economies.
At that home of scholarship. which has produced more revolu tionary men, they marvelled ut hla handling of statistics. He could
juggle with them like a conjurer: and achieve results so simple that
they looked like a first exercise in
arithmelle.
Of course, he shot ahead in the Civil Service. HILS undoubted ability and the war made progress certain. Mr. Lloyd George-who did some queer things in his time but seldom kept a good man down --pushed him on.
In 1830 he was appointed to the newly-created post of chief indus-
flowers,
Outside in a built-up terrace. with tables, easy chairs, and big coloured umbrellas standing on it. All around is a garden full of
flowers.
From there he was shown to Hitler's private wing, the place Once the house up there was where he can shut himself away madest. Just n cottage. Now it 13 from everybody-even his guests. a huge mansion, an impregnable
The house is built partly of con- There in the celebrated sun- fortress, and
crete and partly of wood-making fully-equipped
parlour the meeting took place. It it partly fortress and partly typical Government office.
is not an office, but 0 cheery Bavarian chalet, lounge, into which the mountain sunshine beats..
It is Germany's alternative capital. When Mr. Chamberlain and his staff arrived there, they found no mere summer house, but
a building and grounds as it to receive a foreign delegation as anything in Berlin.
To them it must have seemed a little pocket State-rather like the
Vatican
Great underground bomb-proof. have been tas-proof chambers 1iter kes to seat his guests in bultt. All round the estate are con- the great bay window. Farther crete forts, with machine-guns in back in the room in a big English them. Anti-aircraft runs are freplace-plied high with pine mounted in the grounds. It war log in cold weather.
came, Berchtesgaden might be the seat of the German Government.
It was farther down the huti, where Mr. Chamberlain slept last night. The Royal Bulte was net The view from the windows is aside for him at the Grand Hotel. one of the finest in the Bavarian over which muttered the Union
An they approached, there was a Alps. Right opposite is the Watz- Jack, flanked by Swastika banners.
pole
across the road; frontier guards stood with loaded rifles;
mann, 8,000 feet high. Ben Nevis, Eight Blackshirt guards were Britain's highest mountain, 13 sent to guard him. right round the eight square 4,400 feet high.) -miles of estate was an electric
fence topped with wire. victousty Limestone slopes all round shut off The hills are sleep and wooded,
barbed.
But there were no "frontier"
the rest of the world.
This is the suite that the wife of Aller has added greatly to hit the ex-Kaiser uses when she comes formalities for Mr. Chamberlain, original cottage. When in the to Berchtesgaden. It has a sitting- He went straight through and up early twenties ho used to go and room, a breakfast alcove, a bed-
„To-day's Thought.
HOW strong an influence works In well-placed wurds.
- —CHAPMAN,
used to
rent there he was a not particularly room, and a bathroom. well paid Party officiat. His sister In a suite on the same floor slept
do" for film. Now there are plenty of servants. many's Foreign Secretary.
Joachim von Ribbentrop,
There are luxurious bedrooms for
Ger-
about 100 guests. The rooms aro Next door, in the Villa Wahlheim. equipped like those of a luxury wore housed the staffs of the hotel. Each room has its tele- British and German delegations.