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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1954.

SORRY-NO INDEX,

SAYS

T

MR HECTOR

⚫ For it would take a man 3,000 years to classify the 50 million documents at the Public Record Office

By J.P.W. MALLALIEU, MP

London. office was founded in 1888 WO young men with so that legal, Parliamentary Honours Degrees in and other public papers

History old be housed under Classics ur and a good knowledge of inof instead of being spread French are urgently needed round sixty different places.

In Chancery Lane they will be year as a start.

For

wher paid £900

;t

Recur

The Public

Bet forlay

one

The Dapers Bre In Chan-

are a

is always produced, sometimes van with the help of a little which runs dally between the stores and Chancery outlying Lane.

Of course, the listing, as far as possible, and the storing and production of documents is only of the work the a rady overflowing.

1 part of some 40 they cover Cely fane

One whole de- Record Office. In our coun-

Comuista of highly les of shelves.

further pariment ty tore there

Altogether there skilled technicians who repair twenty miles.

No attempt me twenty-six additional stores and preserve.

made to "fake" if a document including disused gauls and un-

the damaged is part defaced fashed Tube stations.

part is copied on to obviously new paper which does not tone with the old.

Round Room

Office have two vacancies on the staff. The two men wh get the jobs will, if they wish, be able to spend the rest of their working lives among such priceless docu- mont us Domesday Bouk. Captain Bligh's report the Mutiny on the Bounty,

нг Nelson's lan, la the log book Victory net the Belgian Treaty of 1839 which he came the Kaiser's notorious "scrap of paper “

this

Whde 1 was in With Trends stretching to

where students si bent or aperipts, a young man acked the quitetspoken seere tar. M 1. Hector, for the

Cental indles of Records."

in Wils

But the craftsmen the Round

if they cull, Hoed department wide funnel

the

anything. wished, fake almost When the secretary accidentally with takra to Tempa eut a cheque in half, his bank tul

He asked some- sticking paper.

department one in the repair tes ces the job and when, later in the day. le returned to the bank the cashier said that this bar was not the same cheque which

had presented

in

Hectar

He's Head

If they stay long enough

Pusing his spectacles fron they will be in that good.

forehead, Mir white-stoned! Gothic build. Pently explained that there was Such a thing iny off Chancery halu khi suta dex.

thr British he txist would when the minutes of

where there morning. Museum, ter saki, week's Cabinet meeting wire only Ave inillion printed signed by Sir Winston books. Churchill, are

delivered there in AD 2001. For it has just been decided that Cabinet papers, hitherto u secret, may be deposited in the Record Oflice after fifty years and there be inspected by students.

had

docu-

121

the

But in the Record Office there

million were some 50

Who runs this rast, unwieldy ments and the job of indexing

assistant yet efficient Record Office? The then would take an

3,000 head of it the 65-year-old approximately keeper The

only Sir Raymond Evershed, Master Year been going for 16 years, said of the Rolls; and his deputy is every a fellow Oxford man, Mr D. L. Mr Hector.

born 61 years ago year new batches of documents Evans,

of North Wales and still sounding into hundreds

With running

native country. arrive at the offer of his

them are 20 assistant keepers, staff of craftsmen, }ests the typists and porters.

and

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Not that the decision to thousands. deposit Cabinet papers will from Government departments. altogether please these who

You

zenehow

whenever

run the Record Office. This student asks for a document, it

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So far from becoming musty with old long contact from papers, the Master of the Rolls looks like a kindly soldier, tail, straight and distinguished even hall when he is hacking his

from the rough when represent- ing Lincoln's inn in the Serut ton Golf Cup.

The quiet corridors in Chian- cery Lane know both his breezi ness and the quick Celtic wit of his deputy.

reason

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there is no In fact why the papers in the Record Once should make A musty. They are tiot only in- teresting but remarkably up to date, however old they

arc. There is the Statute of Stepney, which in 1299 laid down regula. tions

Control fer Exchange which were not SO diferent from Mr Butler's today, -

More Money

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"By Confucius, Mr Chou! One of our peace doves has got out of control !"

On Sefton Delmer Charts His Newsmap The Things That Follow A Sudden Disappearance

SHAKE-UP

IRST

SPY

IN THE

SET-UP

What is quite certain is that in the reorganisation two main objectives will be kept in fore- "t view!...

with and replaced by a Berlin. away

have new muz. steps been taken for the reorganisation of the "Oflee for the Pro- tection of the Constitution," as Germany's Security Ser- vice is called,

held

in

A meeting was Cologne under the new chief, it was at which Dr Jean, decided to go in for a care-

1 The Security Service will no longor, as in the time of anti- Nazi July 20 plotter Dr John, nclivities on the keep an eye

Left wing Right and of bath subversives.

From now n the Security

will Service

German coneen-

M. MUGGS REGRETS NO FOLIES

By Sydney Smith

"ONSIEUR

PARIS. J. Fred

M Muggs, who won fam

on American television alongside a British diplomat in a Coronation broadcast and is now on a world tour has had to let his Paris public down.

After three days of Paris the little chimpanzee retired to the tiny white cot in his hotel suite.

He gave up a shopping date and a seat at the Folies Bergere.

At 28 months old the pace But before he was cruel. went to bed M. Muggs had enjoyed a whale of a time.

He was invited to lunch at the oldest restaurant in Paris- the one with the newest prices:

£5 a meal is a fair average.

M. Muggs was given a table

of honour. The guest list for the day included counters, the son of the president of a Southa American repabile, the million- alness owner of a beauty pro- duct, a sprinkling of well-paid diplomata, and some handsomely equippod

executives with ap- propriately dressed and beauti- ful women.

RED, WHITE, BLUE

But M. Muggs, in red, white, and blue blazer, brown lineri, trousers, red-and-white striped socks, and brown shoes, stole the show.

To the other guests with duck

and at £2 a plate

wine of incredible age, beauty, and price, even more in- M. Muggs was wani-1eresting.

Pawelke's reasons for There is a great deal of Com-

understond- doesn't ing to resign are which munist jargon

able enough. sound a bit like John himself.

He has discovered

He sat beside his personal Irish-American Mary reporter.

thai, Jus' Kelly, who

is chronicling his

Personal touches, however,

differences with Aden- as in kler days, the official round-the-world adventures. He

has ambassador

andrank with wild enthustoom Minister of Interior German Quer's about

rival whosc unofficial

advice quarter of a bottle of red wine. and a Schroeder sound genuine.

and reports receive more atten- He ote a fruit salad

flaming brandy-soaked peach. It is clear from their public tien from the heads of the str-

Bonn and from reaction that the Soviet authori- vice in ties In the East German zone Chancellor himself had no prior inkling that Otto own reports. John contemplated going over.

than

the

his

war

F

World Focus

M. Muggs, immaculate table napkin tucked under his chin, food and wine. enjoyed his When he saw the blazing peach he leaped from his table and matched at it.

Then, wringing his little hands their singed hair, be to his place and hopped back ate it with a spoon. When ho had finished he turned, lay on his stomach, and went to sleep. GALLIC CHARM

This rival is Wilhelmn Voss, First mention of him was a the former S.S. man, head of word a the short, flippant paragraph in

Goering-run Skoda

Czechoslovakia occupied Soviet-controlled evening newa- in ful purge of the personnel rate all its efforts on the activi

paper in Berlin tucked away on during the war, today heed of plutters and

Page Two: "Oh where, oh the German military mission in with

Egypt, whose job it is to train and remove all "unreliable" tles of Communist

that may

have Moscow henchmen,

where is Johnny?"

the Egyptian Army for elements

Nazis ad milite-ists will be crept in under Dr John.

Soviet Zone Prime Minister against Israel and Britain. to long as they left untouched

remarks that the to be in contact Grotewohl's are not imagine that this re- Don't

Oito John example of

Infectious are, 1 is exclusively due with Moscow organisations. organisation

prove to the disappearance of former

will be eliminated only too well founded. chief Dr John across the sector 2 All men

from influence both inside into Russian-occupied Berlin and his cappearance in the espionage organisations and

broadcast

the Soviet in the administrative machinery on

generally of the West German controlled East German radio.

Rapublic who could he suspected of having "a dual loyalty."

border

This new shake-up of the Security Service was inevitable. The only thing is a bit ahead of schedule.

Red Jargon

be

The

pace of

muy fear,

My fears of the demoralising effects on Germany and the a whole of the ro-Nazification and re- Western cause as

a

JOSS'S official title is "Head of the Central Planning Board Cairo,"

more

As he wakened the fireworks found For M. Mugas began.. himself surrounded by respect- ful waiters and adoring women,

re-Nazification in West Germany has shocked and shaken many citizens there

Pawelke claims, ONE, that He kissed the women's hands who in the ordinary way would stalwart among the most

of the Communist copy of every telegram sent to with Gallic charm. With even Vass, more than Gallic charm he tried opponents

that totalitarian pre'ensions to rule him from Born goes to

TWO,

his own ore to hug them, Germany.

important despatches are turn-

Then suddenly, ed over by Bonn to Voss for com-

apparently ment, THREE, that when Voss becoming tired of the whole For Dr Globke, the former

disagrees with him Voss's views business, he whipped off his are accepted and not Paweke's. shoes, his nice striped rocks, and top functionary of Hitler's Home Office, who today, as Cabinet TN other words, all those must Isaac secretary

Berlin is most literally in the dived on all four under the side go who ab anti-Nazis col- to Dr Adenauer, is

keep the table where they proving only 100 focus of world attention today. restaurant's 372-year-old silver as Warden of Gerinany's secret ruler, has been laborated during the war or in miliarisation of West Germany

well founded. the Mint, for o rise because promising himself en overhaul the immediate postwar period to be

AL Allies and accepted

the Tempelhof airport duck-press, used for squeezing for a with the Service £400 a year, with a £40 house

the sectors of the passengers from

various the gravy 'out'óf ducks.. them. That is going One of the pay from and perquisites of only £3 12s,

administration to mean the departure of quito German

most Brish, American, and French 1000 to was not sufficient in

upport the authority of his

a considerable number of people. affected by the Nazi counter-odrcraft were all photographed

revolution is the German Individually. office;

and there is the usual

Latest victim Foreign Service. The refusing lelter Treasury

here is Dr Pawelke, the German Ambassador in Cairo.

There is a letter from Newton asking,

rise.

There are many licences, in- cluding that of John Bunyan, to preach, end there is a request to the Treasury

the from Engravers to the Mint for two and a half years arrears of pay.

The two young men, who in September will pass through the majestic archway into the court- yard of the Public Record Office to take up their new jobs, need not fear that they are leaving the world behind. The centuries. old world with which they will there have to deal reems much the same as the present one.

FOCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

of the Security long time.

He meant to undertake it as soon as the Fatherland had re- guined fuil sovereignty from the Allies and independence of the "Occupation Statutes."

Now, as a result of Dr John's departure, he is able to go ahead without waiting.

That broaderst made by Dr Icoked at it John...I have carefully,

There is no doubt that it was John himself who was speaking. But I am not at all sure that It is possible that the entire what he said during the broad- Jchn organisaties will be dene east was all his own thinking.

SIXTY YEARS

London. cert, for it was on August 10, Henry then Mr Henry Wood con- war-bombed Queen's ducted the Hall, original home of the Concert. Henry Wood' Promenade

Older, concert-goers can re- Concerts, is to be rebuilt in

years after the enlarged form at a cost of late how two

was built in £2,000,000, will delight Queen's Hall

Nowman, the music lovers in this sixtieth 1888, Robert year of the London lessee, transferred promenade concerts being held at Covent "Proma".

Garden to the new hall, There It is estimated that a quarter had been much talk about the of a million listeners will dock considerable promise shown by to the Royal Albert Hall, that young-conductor Henry "guesthomo of the "Proms" Wood, whereupon Newman on these last 12 years, to hear the gaged him. current: Diamond Jubilee series Just begun, with nearly half as many again usable to gain ad-

RECENT news that the plain the Sent first Promenado

mission. And experts computo

..

wor

Never before in the restaurant's history had a customer dived under a table. Some might photographers en the have sink, drooped, or dropped tarmac shapped every passenger under tables-but never dived. oa he came down the steps from

After M. Muggs went one of He has sent in his resignation, the plants.

ht owners Brooklyn-Italian A tremendous fused to accept it. The So far, Dr Adenauer has

Now I wonder who was doing Buddy Meaeila. cellor is afraid of the pubilcity that. The chief of the Soviet tussle was going on, it seemed. attend the - Secret Police? Or the chic: Then it was announced: "We'll which would

of the German Sceret Police? cancel everything for today."" sigration at this moment,

OF

re- Chan-

LONDON "PROMS"

at a good thing, and they then season of conoeris in hir-78th while the concerts were first losing money, Indeed, his formed their own BBC Symphony year. This was in 1944, whon one concern, which he made Orchestra and struck up the he was made a Companion of died tho · SAIKI as the only condition of his combination that has triumphant- Honour. He

year, after a short illness. continued support, was that the ty progressed over the years. · · Instrumentalists should change

Henry Wood, perhaps as much At a luncheon to mark his their musical pitch. The wind section had to change to low, as anyone, did most to popularise birthday and the jubilee of the or French pitch, instead of the the "Proms." What has probably Proms he spoke of his high pitch which was then In changed most at them in the greatest wish to perpetuate his vogue in England.

maske, Sir Henry himself later life's work. Ho appointed the in life admitting that the modern BBC "curator of the "Froms", Cathcart even brought new promenatters would not accept "I hope they will carry on my Instruments from Brussels, and the programmes with which the concerts as a permanent institu- although this 90-year-old bene series began the collections of tion for all time, he sld. factor of music and the "Froms" popular pieces and songs. He Programme has been dead these last two revolutionfeed the years, he lived to see the day planning. when the French pitch became universal.

The your 1940 was to have ⚫been Sir Henry's last season, but he returned to pull the con- corts through dimonit period. It was largely due to him tha the transfer to the Royal Albert Hall was elected so go for the "Proma" survival and Today, nearly all the well-

successfully, and although the They almost died with Newman known dasales are included in a Hat' infamous echo has never Nowmen had control of the in 1920, Fortuliously, the BBC season, plus many New Works, o

Even then it was touch and

that millions more will regularly concerts until his death in slepped in. at Best guaranteeing legacy of the courage of Wood boon quite subdued, it has best liatch-in to the broadensis. 1926, but Dr.George Catheart, only a scason of six weeks broad in Italeting that new computers combated with some sucosa,

Scots ear specialist and friend crating in the first year. This, be given a chance. Thle under p

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