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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1952, -1

THE 'NOT CRICKET' CRY IS OUT OF DATE WHEN SUCH MEN CAN CHANGE OUR LIVES

Can we afford the shroud over Whitehall?

London. By CHARLES WINTOUR

R EDEN is angry, He bitterly resents

M

the comments on Miniatérs

Even if use was made of the leakage after It was discovered. Operation Cleero was the big- nest security howler of tho

A new book by Sir Lewis

from

Ho the

aro, responsible cussions on the Maclean second world war. Sir William Strang's for every single decision in case. regime at the Foreign Office their departments has beenford Reading, in the House of Namlette the Nazi Era," (published in the China outmoded for years. It is Lords, admitted that Maclean draws attention to another gap

time to kill It off complete has bom "drinking heavily in in Foreign Office security, Mail on November 1).

evidence Egypt, and that in the course quotes And in a speech Mr Eden ly..

of a violent bout" he broke a Nuremberg trial that at the start More and more civil ser- colleague's leg.

of the war two suitcases full of came to Sir William's de..

documents from the Brish Eni- lie said fence.

that wants are becoming public

Mr Eden, in the House of Com. bassy in Rome were for sale on Junius," the author of the figures in their own right. mona, admitted that the Foreign the Italian black market. The article, had broken a tradi- They give Press conferences, Offico dossier on Maclean "did documents were unimportant, but the Gennans thought they tion that civil servants They represent Britain at not represent the full plcture.

The This was a singular exemple of could use them to break down should never be "attacked the conference table,

power which

is theirs can dosler was clearly so incomplete

the diplomatic half-truth: the embassy ciphers. in this way."

that it was positively misleading... 'Closed shop' now be seen.

Good job, but...

LOOK at

DERSONNEL: The social

Now Mr Eden is making

One of the peers tried to firid · a big claim, and a mistaken

out who

for was responsible claim, if he suggests that

appointing Maclean, with his record the newspapers should never

of druipon violence, infantile tantrums, and

Com criticise & civil servant. For to support ย

Sir Gladwyn munist professions, to a he

com~ seerns

at conjor job

the Jebb, British represen- paratively special form of privilege for

Office. M.P.S were the men of Whitehall- tative at the United Na- Foreign

without publicity, tions. Television has made equally curious to know how the Winchester, and Wellington. power

him more familiar to the appointment came to be made. American public than most British Ministers,

Sir

errors without public critic

ism.

Bon,

a

to

Gludwyn seems be doing a good job. But

No names

"closed shop" in the Foreign Office still operatos. More than a third of Britain's ambassadors come from only four of the public schools-Eton, Harrow,

EXTRAVAGANCE: Tho Foreign Office is seven times as big as it was prewar. Em- bassies spawn where only con- bulates existed before. Recent- ly Mr Eden ruled Liberia to embassy status Why?

of

the

This has never been the Fourteen invariable rule. years ago Sir Horace Wil-

MR

MR EDEN quickly told the then the head of the if he ever made some grosa House: "It really was not my Lord Reading Civil Service, was directly error, how could Mr Eden responsibility."

The cost in foreign currency altacked for his activities pretend that he, as Foreign stufly told the peers he would civil

Britain's maintaining servants involved,

diplomatic and consular esta- as Chamberlain's adviser in Secretary, should take all not give the names of

blishments over5035 is nearly And during. the blame for it? appeasement,

Never has this system of Well, who was responsible? £9,000,000, Diplomatic and the first world war Admiral Jackie Fisher, Service "Ministerial responsibility" It is no good for Mr Eden to allied services in America alone

£1,222,780. Before looked more feeble than suggest that the alling Mr Bevin, cost

Forclen Secretary at the war the total cost of the entire chief, was hotly criticised.

Service was only The legalistic fiction that during parliamentary dia- time of Maclean's appointment, Foreign

had anything to do with this £2,000,000. amazing blunder. It must have

Money isfrittered sway, been made at a lower level.

Mr Eden has created a situa- through the British Counell, on

litxulosa such propaganda tion where blame for the Maclear subsidies to lecturers at German appointment cannot be placed on universities, subsidized Ministers because they knew tainments abroad, and the main- foreign ghing qbout it, and cannot be tenance of libraries in plied on civil servants because cilles, Ministers say it would not be cricket to reveal any names,

Couple-Couplets

you read the very personal "personal ads" in your artist, has studied them for years; and a book of his drawings, "Look Before You Elope," looks like sparking: off a new family game craze.

Do you newspapers Peter Kneebone, 29-year-old

their own descriptions; then he visualises the companion each Kneebone pictures the advertisers as he imagines them toch one seems to be seeking,

Let us put an end to this double-talk. I will name cne of Sir William Strang's officials share some responsibility for the who, by virtue of his office, must appointment of Maclean to be Head of the American Depart Here ment in Octelor 1950. He is Me George Middleton at that time Hend of the Personnel Depart- mant at the, Foreign Offee,

Before you start off the game round your own fireside you must understand the sort of phrases the advertisers use. is a sample Kneebone.glossary:-

GOOD FAMILY

ACTIVE. ATHLETED

TEACHER. PIDREER

SYMPATHETIP ANI APPROTIŠMATÉ

NOT BE OFF AT BUY HOT VOLEMM

So much for the advertiser. What about .dvertised-for,?

PREPARED TO MAKLUM SACHI-

·PARFERABLY

the

Humiliation

enter.

DIPLOMATIC FALLURES: I

would be painful to catalogue of Britain's full history the diplomacy since the war. This

1106 suffered one country diplomatic humiliation after an-

We have lost our oil re other, fineries in norica in

Perstaand

We

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де

no compensation. Two of our And where is Mr Middleton destroyers

were damaged by 44 mines,

British today? He has just left Teheran. Albanian Since the recall of Sir Francis sailors were killed--and we get Shepherd, Mir Middleton has no compensation. While America been acting-an-British Charga-protects her troops in Japan, d'Affaires in Persia.

'Most unjust'

NOW exunine a second point made by Mr Eden. He said "Juni

had been "most unjusi".

Britain fails to obtain similar rights for her own men, There has been no success in securing the release of Mr Edgar Sanders, imprisoned in Hungary, although the Americans have securod the freedom of his associate, Mr Voegeler.

There was a muddle about command problems in the North Aflantie Alliance. There was The performance of the over-eagerness to tearm Ger

I cannot agros. ., 2

Foreign Office in recent years has shakan public confidexo. Security has been shocking. Too top diplomats are still many drawn from too narrow a social cirele. Extravagance is common. And our diplomacy is not getting results.

many.

New chief?

YES, there

something seriously witong with, the Foreign Office.

Mr Eden may protest that no now bears the ultimate respon- sibility. True enough.

Look at the record. SECURITY: Apart from the Burgess and Maclean story, two other grave incidents have come to light since the war.

And if he cannot see, or will The full truth has yet to be told about the spy Cicero. But not admit, that the Foreign requires through there is no question that Cleero Office became the valet of Sir Hughe shake-up, then "Junius," in his Knatchbull - Bugessen, ambas- next article, would be justified sador in Ankara during the war, in saying that the Foreign Office not only o reshuffle photographed top secret docu- needs

a

On you go, then, on a game that needs no more than aments in the amassader's safe, among the permanent officials, Personal Column, a pencil and paper and a little imagination,

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