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THE KING & QUEEN
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Messages from Canada
the announcement
jnice over
re-
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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 Mr. Chamberlain's
ROBABLY until recently
many people had never heard the name. Then the newspapers report that Mr. Chamberlain on his visit to Herr Hitler is to be accompanied by Sir Horace Wilson, "chief in-
Elbow
that the King and Queen intendustrial adviser to the Govern-trial adviser to the Government. visiting the Dominion early this sumuner. For the first time a reigning British Sovereign and} This Consort will be welcomed in the New World-and what a
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In Canada the King will be hailed both as Sovereign and as Supreme Ambassador, and wherever he moves
he will earry not only the authority of the Crown But also the deep good will and friendship of the country whence he comes.
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.
The Moon's Acquittal
ment."
Five years later he was seconded And 50 at last another to the Prime Minister for special duties. In the interim (the world of politica still uncomprehendiag). mystery man emerges from the
drowsy Wilson had arrived.
Horace shadows of Downing Street into the full glare of publicity.
He was then, as he is now, phyl- world cally unimpressive.
It is not a bit too soon. Horace Wilson is too useful man to be hidden away in that stuffy, rather overcrowded offler of bls on the he first floor of No. 10. just a few steps Downing Street and knocks on the up from Mr. Chamberlain's own door of No. 10.
study. You ought to know about 11m.
So few people nottee him when turns every morning Into
Which is precisely as he wants it. In the block of mansion flats in Who is he? What is he like? South Kensington where he lives Well, it is a long story. But from Monday to Friday, few of the can be summed up in a single se other tenants even know his name. Lence. Sir Horace Wilson is the In a pleasant part of Sussex, where power behind Mr. Chamberlain's he has a "country place" much as
ribow.
you would expect n £3,000 a year Civil servant to maintain, he keeps himself to himself. His wife and his son and two daughters are schooled in the same tradition of
reserve.
He is not a good mixer-a fact which can hardly have helped him In the industrial disputes he was set to solve.
The man whom the pubile doca not know is at once the thinking box and the sounding box of the Pilme Minister. First. Neville Chamberlain thinks. Then Bir Horace thinks it out-and finally the Prime Minister acts.
There was the general atoppage Fifty-six years okl, Q.C.B. of 1920. G.C.M.G., C.B.E.. Wilson is the the scenes then-Government 10- He was the man behind Government handyman, bend of between working 20 hours a day. the unofficial brains trust that has as unruled when he finished as sprung up round Mr. Chamber when he started. There was the coal stoppage of the same year Now that Sir Maurice Hankey is
where again he displayed his
Jnir.
He has looked grim a good many
to Manchester to try to rationalise
An announcement that the moon had been detected in de- viation from its predicted course may have produced correspond- ing perturbations in astronomi- gone, Wilson is the most powerful almost frightening capacity for cal circles, but to the lay public Civil servant of the whole 400.000 keeping cool. it was hardly news. Inconstancy Treasury, their permanent head, times now. When he was sent up
-Str
Warren Fisher, of the in the moon was entirely in
not excepted. He has the Cabinet's character and was just what ear-and the Cabinet's confidence. might be expected. Have not Since the slump of 1931, it has been the poets
through the ages nls "Yes" or "No" which has testified to this inconstancy; made or damned the work-finding and have they not been as
Achemes of a dozen Ministers. diligent observers of the moon.
It as any astronomer? was Milton himself who foresaw what has now been charged against Earth's satellite when he wrote of
The wandering moon. Riding to her highest noon Like our
stran
who had been lo
Through the heaven's wide path-
lean way.
Milton, it will be observed, with the magnanimity of a
great poet, suggested an extenuation for the irregularity which he recorded, and notably enough the plea is admitted to be valid. Milton was not merely merciful, he was just.
For it turns out that the moon has in fact been led us- tray. Her conduct has been irreprochable and entirely worthy of a well-conducted lady.. If she has seemed to deviate from her predicted course the fault is not hers, but that of the
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the cotton trade. When he went to Ottawa ng one of the advisers who helped to produce that lamentable series of agreements. When he walked through Down- Ing Street these last few mornings. There he comes and goes with kreter freedom than most members of the, Cabinet. They must be sent for; he is always at hand.
He Il in who is credited with the Iden of sending Lord Runelman to Prague. No doubt he urged Mr. Chamberlain to take that plane to ilitler.
He astonished them when they heard that he was going to Berch- tesgaden, too. For though Bir Horace belongs to the Travellers' Club, be 13 a stay-at-home Englishman, seldom travelling farther than to his house in Sussex. And at Inst it is official con- Armation of all the gossips have sahl. Sir Horace Wilson is big.
But not popular. Those who dis- ke him belleve 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 this," you can be sure two things.
First, that it is a knotty prob- lem. Becond, that Mr. William
Strang, C.M.G., M.DE., is going to be consulted.
"William." as all the Foreign- Once calls him, is 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 chocking) not at a publle school. He was tut-tut) at London University: then at the Sorbonne, In Paris Just before the war.
Ite served in the Berkshires aud on the staff, and when it was all over. went. via the Peace Conference. Into the diplomatic service as Third Secre tary at Belgrade. Since then he har Kone up niki up, because these days shrer ability really dorn count.
Strang's
infinfio capacity for working at top speed for long hours, an excellent command of languages, a cool shrewd Judgment.
assets are Ar
What a wise owl It la" sald a cer- tain Secretary of State, affectionately referring to William's round spectacles. an encyclopædle knowledge, à gift for
getting on" with people, and twinkling sense of humour.
He takes his job seriously. You would take him perhaps for a student rather than for a diplomat. And you would not be far wrong.
He likes to spend his evenings not society" but reading diplomatic history. That is one reason for his level sense of proportion. He can se things in perspective.
He 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. Soon he will be a Minister somewhere: the Office is going to miss him undly when that day comes
William has his own views about policies and people. But it would be indiscreet to talk of them. ffe, being the soul of discretion, never does. Ho is an officiaJ.
The P.M. could not have a better ex- pert at his side than the "wise owl" with the quiet amilo
In the House of Hitler
was up a steep ascent of to the house.
Discovered by Mr. Lloyd George, friend of Earl Baldwin, adviser to Mr. J. 11. Thomas (who called him "ruddy wonder." and also
The door swung phone, bathroom and its fresh "'Orace. he is now counsellor-
1,000 feet from his hotel that open, chowing him and his party flowers. in-chief to the Prime Minister. Mr. Chamberlain was taken to luto a dimly-lit hall.
Do not doubt that in these vital Hitler's fortress-chancellery.
Outside is a built-up terrace. hours the almost unknown Sir
From there he was shown into with tables, easy chairs, and big Horace Wilson's influence on your Once the house up there was where he can shut himself away All around is a garden full of Hitler's private wing, the place coloured umbrellas standing on it. own destiny-and that of every
modest. Just a cottage. Now it la from everybody-even his guests.
flowers. other citizen-is very real.
And, since this is an odd world. do not be surprised to learn thal he looks rather like an ageing and unsuccessful clerk whose Arm ex- pects to be bankrupted next week, Such is the way of things.
He was born in Bournemouth where his parents led a respectable If unexciting He. Horace Joli went to Kurnella School round the corner until his aptness for figures decided Mr. Wilson, anr, that his boy should go up to the London School of Economies.
At that home of scholarship. which has
produced more revolu handling of statistics, tionary men, they marvelled at his juggle with them like a conjurer: He could
they looked like a first exercise in and achieve results so simple that whose rotation on his axis has
arithme.lc. been inconsistent, Confirmatory
Of course, he shot nhend in the
Service. evidence of this irregularity has ability and the war made progress
Civil
His undoubted been obtained from a number
certain. Mr. Lloyd George-whit of trust-worthy witnesses-the did some queer things In his time Sun, Venus, Mercury and Mars. but seldom kept a good man down -who agree in fixing the res
--pushed him on. ponsibility on the Earth.
In 1030 he was appointed to the newly-created post of chier indus-
It
19 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 anything in Berlin.
The house is built partly of con- rete and partly of wood-making it partly fortress and partly typical Davarian chalet.
are
a huge mansion, an impregnable fortress,
and * fully-equipped There in the celebrated sun- Government office..
parlour the meeting took place. It is not an office, but a cheery one. into which the mountain sunshine beats.
Great underground bomb-proof, Titler ken to seat his guests in bullt. All round the estate are con- Fas-proof chambers have been the great bay window. Farther
crete forts, with machine-guns in back in the room to a big English them. As
Anti-aircraft guns fireplace-plied high with pine- mounted in the grounds. It war logs in cold weather.
came. Berchtesgaden might be the seat of the German Government,
It was farther down the hill where Mr. Chamberlain slept last night. The Royal Suite was cet aside for him at the Grand Hotel, over which fluttered the Union Jack, flanked by Swastika banners, Eight Blackshirt guards were sent to guard him.
To them it must have seemed a little pocket State-rather like the
Vatican.
barbed.
The view from the windows is one of the finest in the Bavarian An they approached, there was a Aina. Right opposite is the Watz- pole across the road; frontier mann, 8,000 feet high. (Ben Nevin, Huards stood with loaded rifles; Britain's highest
mountain, 13 right round the elght square 4,400 feet high.) miles of estate was an electric fence topped with wire, viciously Limestone slopes all round shut off The hills are steep and wooded.
the rest of the world.
This is the suite that the wife of Ifitter has added greatly to his the ex-Kaiser uses when she comes early twenties he used to go and room, a breakfast alcove, a bed- original cottage. When in the to Berchtesgaden. It has a sitting- teat there he was a not particularly. room, and a bathroom. well paid Party oficial. His sister-
In a suite on the same floor slept liked
to" do Now there are plenty of servanta, many's Foreign Secretary,
Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ger-
But there were na "frontier "* formalities for Mr. Chamberlain. He went straight through and up
........To-day's Thought
How strong works
words.
an
in
influence well-placed
-CHAPMAN,
for him,
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Each room has hs tele British and German delegatlona,
hotel,