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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.

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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.