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WHO IS THE BOSS

TIE biggest unknown quantity in the British Broadcasting Corporation is the Director- General, Sir William Haley.

Is he a dictator or just the man with the oil can who sees that the broadcasting wheels. work smoothly?-What-is-his-relationship with

the Board of Governors appointed by the Govern- ment? What does he mean to his staff--and the public who pay for the broadcasting service?

These questions have never

been satisfactorily answered- until now.

Lord Inman, a former chair-. man of the BBC Governors, now throws light on the power and personality of Sir William Haley which immediately raises the question: Whn is the bass of the BBC7

his

The story Lord Inman tells in autobiography of his ances sion to the chairmanship on January 1, 1943, is astonishing.

The first

business meeting between Lord Inman and Sir William Is inauspicious. The

10

scams receive the

dis-

new

Director - Central inclince! chalsman on his first day of omer. Then he gives way-rand Lord Inman arrives at Broad- Casting House at the oppointed

time.

"There

come

was 110 one to wel- me and I had to explain

10 the commis-

sionaire who I was.

No one volunteered

HALEY

at the

BBC ?

INMAN

The chairman's secretary wept...

by GEORGE CAMPEY

to show me to the chairman's phe evidently did feel I ought to know. All your letters have to

room.

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I

wondered

PARIS NEWSLETTER.. from SAM WHITEX

The Ridgways will move into Ike's Paris villa

Paris.

HEN General Ridgway

comes to Paris in June

to take over the supreme command of the Allied forces in Europe, he and his strikingly beautiful 36-year-old wife, are expected to move into the present Eisenhower home, the Villa St. Pierre, in the vil lage of Marne-la-Coquette, 10. miles west of Paris.

A move to any other home ist extremely unlikely if only because it might offend the French Govern- ment,

who have spent £25,000 rent- voting the house and have furnished it with priceless It

treasures from a

national collection.

In addition

the house, a two-

storeyed 19th century building stand- ing in its own grounds, is both attractive

and only 10 drive from SHAPE headquarters.

minutes'

RIDGWAY AND WIFE

Easier to talk to?

Hleve you Russians

produce a

food a Cognac es wo do in Fronce."

Grove words these: and they have been gravely reported in the French Press,

Said the abashed traveller on his return. "I was mireported: I assure you I was merely being polite. All I said was, "My word it's good. In point of fact it was not Cognse at all I was drinking

It was vodka. “

Cognacs unanimous advice to Gadras: Stick to vodka.".

As others see us NEWS from the United Nations Educational, Scientille and

Cultural Organisation:

Item Ona.-Alter an inquiry launched in eight different Countries to find out what people think of their own and other countries, UNESCO (for which the you pay) comes to the conclusion expected to be converted into a nursery for Elsenhowers, are

of foreigners. the

three-year-old lend an active social life in with their own countries and are

critical Ridgway's

Paris. General Ridgway liites son, Matt, jun.

dinner parties

Item Two-Press release from and is a lively

One of the roums will have to The Ridgways, unlike thot most people are satisfied

The Ridgways

No servant problem conversationalist. Mrs Ridgway UNESCO: "Dear colleagues, dn hoa a highly developed clothes you consider that artists and In the modern world will have no sense which should make her a writers

of freedom? to Paris fashion suffer from lack The Eisen- regular visitor servant problem.

do Whether you ar do not, you houses. howers have seven servanty con-

One notable

difference that will be interested to know that congress of sisting of three soldiers, among

expect to and an international them Elsenhower's cook; two newspaper men

will discuss women from the U.S. Women's under Ridgway was summed up crtists and writers

in Venice this sum- question SHAPE Staff Officer;

This conference is Army; one locally hired butler; by a and Mrs Eisenhower's personal "Ridgway should be ensler to mer,

He isn't standing for sponsored by UNESCO. meid, Rose Wood.

Then follows a a list of British artists and writers who have At a been invited to attend. Storm over cognac bank slunce through it the only

talk to.

Of these, only Rose Wood will President." be returning with them to the U.S. The butler will either be

dismissed

Ridgways.

or kept on for "the

A special problem is the futtare men who guard the Eisenhowers left in the pleasant town of Atomic Dali

By the time you read this it notable absenteh seems to be air

will be safe, I think, to ber Cyril Connolly. of the three U.S. secret service that there is not one Communist

Lard Inman is

ot -one for Mrs Eisenhower, two Cognac, where, course, The

DACK in Paris: ex-surrealist, asked by Arthur

for the General. At present they Brandy comes from.

painter Catholic, now Greenwood, then

indiscretion do not know whether they will Reason: a Brave Lord. Privy Seal,

-In all be kept on or replaced.

Cognac, M. Salvador Dali. He says: "I now by n delegate from

my philosophy nuclear why he did not likelihood in view of the opposi- Pierre Gudras, to the recent rall

For the past four attend a meetion in sorte quarters to General economic talks in Muscow. For mysticism.

Mr19 ing with

Ridgway, a security guard will M. Gadros sald, proposing a months I have been representing the elements of Churchill, Mr be strengthened at least for the toast at one of the many Muscow practically all Eden, Mr. Marri- time being.

banquets: "My word, I do be- modern physics. My next ple-

ture will be explosive."

Sir

son and William Haley to arrange poll t'cal broadcasts, Inman's secre- tary had heard nothing about it,

I

Aasked for on explanation, Sir Willum Haley blendly says: didn't think you would want to we have al-

ways

myself

gone by "before."

Lord

"I told him," writes Inman, "that I should like to be informed of such meetings, and we closed the conversation with civil expression of understand- "But the phrase "The old hung in it you chairman never

He Ands his own way there, be read before they to out, I ing on both sides.

not to keep my own fle a bell button on the em presses

us unspoken, desk, "Presently a girl appeared coples. I

It didn't seem right to the pir between And I inquired for my secretary. know.

had to me. I have never

do so that you could almost hear She replied that I had no secre-

it drumming on the wires." I looked

this kind of thing before."" per-

Three months after becoming suppose tary.

How does Sir Willlam explain chairman, Lord inman left the ex- plexed for she added in

this?

BBC to join the Cabinet. planation that the old chairman

"He

answered courteously

Do lis said I would

experiences answer never had one. nice to be put in touch with the that his only desire was to the questions racut Sir William

looked smooth

my path. He did not Haley? They do and they don't. Director-General. She

run luto trouble. This 50 year

Channel old startled and said she thought he wish

a fermer radio operu- Lander, a lor and' newspaper editor, con- tinues to be the Phantom of Lord Inman had succeeded Firllard Place,

Within the vast, impersonal Allan Powell and was not

me. lo

was busy. I suggested that in through inexperience. any cage he should be told I had arrived."

The Director-General arrives

u few minutes later. Lord In Sir

...

The

1.

the

Housenal. Internal-

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man insists on having his own allowed to forget what "the old machine radiating from Broad-

was like casting F dfd. "lt So the girl, "capable chairman"

Sir William Holey teretary. and conscientious," takes up what I Imagine it must be himself

be married to a ly he is known sometimes to

not as Sir het duties.

widow." In the end he puts an William but briefly and some- any sentence what apprehensively as "the cMelai bon on

"The old chairmas. D.G," He is rarely seen by his beginning: "But it struck me several

staff, though the transient have times those first weeks that she Lord Inman sees the organi- encountered him in the hallway did not look happy. One day, setion at work and draws this of Broadcasting House. as I was dictating I noticed her pleture of it:

I went I dis- Everywhere in tears. After a long time the truth

came out. She was covered that the machine wns Few

have telephone access about her job, the amazingly efficient. Everything to him. In February 1951 he not happy conditions were unsatisfactory, went like clockwork, but therein

for There met his radio producers don't think A. I defected a weakness, 'I really

first time in four years. the told I was should tell you. I was

a singular lack of

Once in a decade, however, a must keep it confidential. But human touch

staff

member of the BBC staff can zeemed to be imbued by a sen be sure of secing the D.G. That of frustration, if not of fear.

is when he or she qualifies for By Lord

Then comes

the ten-year service bonus, Sir Norgate,

story of all,

William receives the candidate In his office.

The man is much like the machine, which probably ac-

for Lord Inman's counts periences. Lord Simon of succeeded Wythenshawe, who Inman es chairman, had-more to commend him to the Direc tor-General. They had worked together. in Manchester, Haley editor of the Manchester Evening News, Lord Simon one of his directors, Have these positions been reversed in the BBC?

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Officially the Board of Gov- BBC polley. ernors control "To them the Director-General, nas chief executive officer, fa im- mediately responsible for the of the or- cfcient working ganisation in all its aspects, in Pccordance with their polley That statement op- decisions." pears in the 1951 edition of the Slr BBC Year Book, which William passes.

The statement tho

Is curiously abrent from 1032 edition.

Land Simon has his office, his secretary, and works in, close nerociation with Sir William. The system under which letters. are chown to the Director-Gen- cral persists as "a gentleman's unders arding" though Lord Simon could send a letter with out: Sir William's knowledge it ho wished,

NO

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CAKE FOR THE ISRAELIS TODAY

By Monica Dehn

Too much Chevalier

VERDICT

VERI

on

Paris's latest £100,000 musical revuc, "Plein, Fou," at the Empire Theatro:

EL

You will be advised to con- tinue

visiting other thenices, There is too much ballot (of the

chotco which needs type

of grapher): too much singing Tel-Aviv, Apr. 30, before harvest time comes round "operatic gems"; and, sad to relate, even too much Maurice

too Chevaller--singing

many THERE are no rich birth- again. •

Israel is also planning to be-

poor new songs and too low of day cakes or new party come the main communications dresses for Israelis nowa centre of

the Middle East his better old ones. But there days, for the national larder Lydda airfield is being enlarged is a waterfall by courtesy of is bare again.

se that it may receive the same Glasgow engineering firm..

HeathThe choice The Food Min'ster and Diree, international rating as tor of the State Bank have visit-row, London's big airport, and ed the United States to plead there are plans afoot to expand

it st furiher and make it for food loan. And clothes

York's La New as have become so scarce that the good shops receiving their meagra allocation of shirts, sacks or

R

as

Guardia.

Haifa is also The part of

Four hundred be being enlarged. frocks summer

have to

is guarded by police squads metres of additional quay

and the constructed, onrush of frantic being against an

mouth of the nea

nearby Kishon housewives.

But the Israelis believe that if River widened. This will enable only the

United

States or ships to unload directly

a warehouses to be built along is Britain will help them for little while longer, they will be banks, able to avoid economic collapse, which today seems fortably close.

GRANTS, GIFTS

have

at

LSA MAXWELL will give a

June.

fancy dress ball in Foris next Theme of the ball; You are asked to go dressed as the person you most admire or most detest. Mies Maxwell will go as King Farouk.

Number, please

WHAT would you do after driving 100 miles non-stop? and will double the

to French police car port's present yearly capacity According to an instruc uncom to handle a millon and a half sued

drivers, "clean. your Numer tons of shipping.

But if the Israelis for the plate."

find it hard to sality 3 a.m. alarm present

been

they

Paris newspaper headline of

10

schoolmistress none In English

0.774."

at 3

In the four years since Britain themselves with dreams, laid down the mandate, can take heart from the'r army. £150,000,000

in For their army and air force the week: "There is a man vested in Israel, and the Jews are accepted by foreign military under my bed, screamed the have received double that surs experts as second

this part of the world. In toans, grants and gifts.

But this money has not been used to make life easy for the who 650,000 Jews

were in tho It has been country in 1948. used to feed, house and clothe 690,000 Jewish Immigrants-20 of en hour for the 1,400 days Statehood and start large-scale

schemes development

wh'ch will release Israel from depen dence ori

These foreign aid. schemes are at last nearing the time when they will come into operation.

Bro

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Big American compan'es

manufacturing already

in frigerators and motor cars Israel. By summer, tyres, fer- tisers, chemicals, coment and steel tubes will be rolling off the assembly 'ne for export to' Scandinavia, Greece,

Turkey and Western Europe.

Simultaneously, new roads cut through the rock of the southern desert will have opened up the way to the Dead Sco, whose rich store of potash will bring badly-needed sterling to Israel from Britain.

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In the Acids, small-town NO FINER SUGAR! pedlars from backward oriental countries and middlemen who have fled from Eastern Europe are rapidly being turned into farmers. And this year they will help to mako Israel Belf- zumelent for the first time in vegetable production. 1: And so that more and more of Israel can be made to blo

local factory is now son, turning out the biggest water 'pipes in the world."

They are wide enough for man, ft. 0 ins, tall to stand upright in them; and they will take water from the Tel-Aviv area 200 miles southwards to fertilise a million meres of arid Wasteland around Beershoba

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