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THEY PROMOTE UNITY

By Irvin Wood

London. TTOW do you go about IL promoting Common- wealth unity?

If you're Peter Baker, MP. you hire a brass band, write a ietter to the Queen of Tonga, organise a hearty St George's Day rally and raise £780,000 In cold, hard cash.

Then you throw a press con- ference.

room

Down in a basement dining qm below the House of Com mons more than a hundred reporters gathered for the official send-off. They learned that the band had been saved for the St. George'a Day rally (April 23). Thay were told that the Queen of Tonga (less happily) had not yet answered the letter inviting her to join in the show.

But the cash was ready and walting. Hard-headed bankers and Insurance men had put up £750,000. And 30,000 other Englishman had each added a little more than £l a plece to the pot.

rather bewildered

Rescorch committees (heavily sprinkled with bankers and In- |surance men) trying to find the money, Jearned.

were now busy

a way to spend the conference

Their Aim

Mr Baker was hopeful that the researches would come up with an answer soon.

Their alm is a project which will both yield a profit and fire the imagination of the Common-

wealth.

fost likely, they will site it in an underdeveloped area whose government is in nood 01.

of some capital. They particularly want a plan which investors throughout the Com-

nwealth can join,

mon

The plan formed, the public will then be invited to subscribe

some more money and to share in the profits of the scheme,

Maybe you're still bewildered by all this?

an MC and spent a long

concentration camp.

time in

ing the Colorado beetle on our beaches.

Births and deaths, marriage and divorce call them to action. They are concerned celebrate the centenary of the Members of Parliament receive day the figure has dropped to with pensions, health, explosives,

Let's go back to the beginning. atomic Report, salaries of £1,000 a year, for a 657,385, but it refers to non- bankruptcy,

energy, spires and towers, is

Mr Baker, Tory MP for South Book, only which laid the

the foundations of certain given

nylons, time, for doing industrial staff only--the

Post Domesday just over a hundred years the Civil Service as we know i little, in order

tor Norfolk, is one of the wartime Dollar Balance and the Wator- Office to mature at a

and the Service and

dare devils who parachuted There are not guard. old. The previous edifice, today.

many proper reason cialm for Supply departments also employ

behind of human

enemy lines and raised Industry not hab where Lords and Commons Sonic accounts were kept in £2,000, to be granted for doing about 430,000 industrial workers.

At the top of this pyramid represented in the list, except hob across Western Europe. Ho went to Holland, mado life had held their meetings for tin or in Roman numerals less."

which proved hard to balance. But it had lasted for hundreds are 5,000 Administrative staff, perhaps sport, composing music pretty hot for Hitler's men, won nearly five centuries, was All other documents had to be of years-Chaucer, for instance, who advise Ministers on

and telling fortunes." the destroyed in a disastrous copied by "ensuni

three Govern formulation of new policy, and who nominally held Suti writers,"

administer or ment posts at the same time- co-ordinate, "penny's" fire-caused by the careless were called

and to their and It was not until

the control the various departments, news of workmen burning

The Service Trevelyan-Northcote Report and "They are not public figures and rates of pay. old tally-sticks painstaking was

fragmentary in the revelation of

fessor Santayana, "wish time for a War that reforms Press," says Mr Griaith. "Thoy

on to peck at their institutions and the Commonwealth. Lo the branch or office they began to be made. narrow de- The complicated and leisure- entered; there was

The Civil Service Commission to remain, as far as the outside they can peck nt." They certainly partmentalism and waste of

was for

formed in 1855 to examine world is concerned, as a succes peck at civil servants, who are

already candidates

nominated, son of Grey Eminences in the and in 1870 came the introduc- shadow of a series of Ministers often ridiculed, joked about, and he

grumbled at.

And tion of the Open Competitive of the Crown. Their hours of Service has a high reputation asked the public to help.

yet the Commonwealth Ventury of Examination.

Order

and work are long and uncertain, abroad, and there is a constant was surprised when he got 30,-

their work travels brought into methods of the with them, ahed their under the Increasing

Secretly Proud

THE

In civilian life, he is a suc- cessful publisher and author.

H¢ decided, just after tho

ly notched by generations charneler: olleials were confined in the Crimean competence their names rarely appear in the English," once said Pro- Coronation, that now

of civil servants.

ly system of recording pay- ments made to the Exchequer manpower. by cutting notches in

plece of

elm wood and then spliting it actually survived until 1820.

Worst Feature

An 18th century document des BUT by for the worst feature uniformity were

the administration was the the

Procedure thus:-

cribes the

"Payments

and

expresses

5LIFI in

*****

shun publicity and are content tolerate only such institutions as

was the

new plan to unite

Got Help

And so, with some friends, and

and they

beme cannot

stream of foreign visitors who 000

wish to study Its methods and money. But thus responsibilities for

letters back-full of the working

supported, he be ma to made system of patronage as a means Service

to mould their own into Its went to the bankers and in- to the Teller, who writes a Bill of entry into Crown employment. control of the Treasury. Type any length of time."

pattern.

surance men He got them to thereof in Parchment, expressing

There were no competitive writers gradually made their Wide Range

put up the £750,000 and engag- the Sum in letters, and throws examinations, new entrants had appearance, though the copying

Since it is the envy of many ed their help to find a scheme. it down through a Pive Into the to depend on an Influential of letters by hand did nut

countries, how can it be a butt In the interim, ho has been Tally Court, where the Tally patron to cet a job, and there entirely disappear until World NEXT in

NEX

branches of the Cutter makes a Tally thereof. Was also

abrisk business in War One.

-70,000 Executive class offl- that the answer

Is that how- Venturers Then the Auditor writes on the buying and selling offices. Some After 1019

carne the setting cials, whose work includes al- ever much they may abuse it, monwealth. And he has had of the National executed by a up of Tally a Duplicate of the Bill, sinecure posts,

Whitley, most everything above routing the English are secretly proud of encouraging replies from the the

Service: "The fests Prime Ministers their Civil

of Australia, Notches, and the Clerk of the considered as property and given side made up of high officials, and professional, scientific Rolls enters the Bill in his Book; us a provision for children. and a 'stall side drawn from tech

technical specialists whose ac- defence mechanism, a protest Canadian trade department, then the Scriptor Tailler reads The Marquis of Buckingham, representatives of Staff organisa- tivities extend "from splitting against authority as such and a And 23 Tory and 12 Labour the Tally, the Clerk of the Rolis for instance, was only ten years tions and unions,

which atoms to splitting hairs over a warning to it not to exceed its MPs are now to start stumping looking in

nur in his Book to see how old

when he was

appointed established the principle of joint legal clause." There are about powers, the powers ultimately Britain in "Brains Trust" they Ugode

and thereon the Teiler of the Exchequer, a post consultation and practical co- 100,000 Clerical Officers, and the derived from the will of the panels to support the scheme, Chamberlains

a year. strike the Tally, worth £20,000

And

with its operation in matters of recruit Post Omec,

many people as spoken

When in Parlia-

the schem.c is really Le, divide and separate it, and

pay and working romifications, accounts for most ment... If the time ever comes rolling, he hopes there will be giving the Stock to the Party, Paymaster of the Land Forces conditions.

when the English `are unable at least as much capital from keep the Foll themselves, and and the Treasurer of the Navy

In 1854, there were only 17,815 "The range of

- countries occupations to joke about their officials, It member

of tho the Bill is taken

as bankers, for civil servants. Owing to the entrusted to the Civil Service is can only be because they are Commonwealth as from Britain. their own benefit, with

Ho the vast increase of work thrown on now so wide that it is no wonder afraid to do so, and suchị en

hopes to make his full Mr Wyn Grimth recalls this public money entrusted to the Service by the great new the ordinary man finds difficulty England is not one to look for-plan public at the St George's

system, and many other them. quaint

Day rally. measures of social legislation in- in forming a mental pleture of ward to." strange and entertaining details

Edmund Burke thundered troduced

"Their by successive Parlia- It," writes Mr Grimth. of how the Goverment's day- against the system in the last ments, they had grown to 100,000 duties range from Issuing a by-day business was condueled quarter of the 18th Contury, by the turn of the century, 160,000 passport to selling postage In byegone years, in his pamph- once describing the Board of by 1914, 387,000 by 1939, and stamps, from computing income let "The British Civil Service. Trade as "a sort of gently ripen- 704,000, of which nearly half tax liabilities to proving wills, 1854-1054," Just published to ing hothouse, where eight were women in Aprli 1945. To- from licensing Imports to fight-

the hierarchy are in its own? Mr Grifßith thinks irving to throughout the Com-

deouty, were held for life, and Couneli, consisting of an official' and below formulation of policy, and the grumbles are in part aand New Zealand and from the

certain officials--such 15 the ment,

by the Auditors "way and filed also acted

"GO EAST,

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The Kremlin has deliberately courted this disaster. After the revolution, industrial develop- ment was tho watchword. Heavy industry mushroomed.

Now that job is done and the swing is toward light industry and higher standards of living. better living is just not there. But the agricultural base for The peasants nover agreed "Socialisation."

to

ment store, there Was a

Malenkov's campaign to pump Whole towns on whoels, will surging queue this week.

more "consumer goods" Into the follow the pioneers. They will Mostorg, the second market was paying off. But the Include shops, newspapers, biggest shop in town, drew Trans-Siberian was doing a cinemas and houses all cara

booming business-bociuso the van style.. crowds almost as big.

underpinnings of the Russian. Already 173,000 pioneers have The 200,000 who throng- economy are still shaky.

left on the project. More will GUM every ed into

day Between 1917 and 1940 in follow as fast as they can be came to see salmon-coloured dustrial production rocketed 230

recruited. V-necked evening dresses percent. But farm production **** and nylon underthings in is still lagging just as badly.

rose only a bare 10 percent, It Among them will be 100,000 young Communist leaders. They

The solution, plainly, is to hit electric blue. Mostorg was In a last-dlich effort to swing will spearhead, the operation, for the wide open spaces,

bolster them in packing

with the balance, the Kremlin whiskers.

morale, and discipline

Rusia has plenty of thein- come up with what is perhaps

vast plain stretching from "Await Me" cosmetics and the boldest plan in the history To encourage the migrants Volga to the Pacific from the "Jubilee of the Red Army" of man.

rates of pay will be high and Arctic to the Cifinese border conditions will be as good as and Turkestan. perfumes,

But at the Moscow terminus

the

the planners can make them. In Aros, it is. ss great as the They have to be. There is no great North American brairie, of the Trans-Siberian, Railroad Malenkov proposes to coloniae room for fallure. Unless grain and much of it is the same sort there was another kind of 32 million acres of wasteland in and cattle production can be of country." queue. The Trans-Siberian wAB Siberia, the Urals, Kazakhstan prodded upward, the Ruslans

The

North American

prairie offering free rides to the East and the Volga bating in two are going to and themselves is now carefully culdvated to points one, two and three yearsgeld,

-with #hope" full of pots and as a back garden and it sprouts thousand miles from Moscow, 112 That is a lot of territory, nylons and nothing to eat. great ctiles, Omaha, Kansas

The two kinds of queue had In fact, it is almost exactly Population growing by Clu

skasosen 1 available to lift the standard, the BURD make life a little easier for the Ton back:sihoir". average. Rumianak

planning: Malenkov's men, have sent levaliselines GUL and Mortorg wore kulge) devised:

Everything is there ing with goodies: ser m sign that procedure,

Des

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