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THE CHINA MAIL; FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28,
*
1956.
" AH THAT'S STOPPED NASSER FROM · GETTING ANY
*CASH OUT OF SUEZ
IS TO
J
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66
EDGAR
HOOVER, heavy-set, splay - nosed, gang-
busting boss of the G-men, rides kh electric horse and spends many of his evenings reading the American Journal of Philo- sophy.
AL 80, he is not very different in appearance, stiilook or habi from the bustling youth of 23 who look over the United Stuler Federal Burent of Investigation in 1924.
The electr 1
and The plulosophical jarnalu chat- acterise his cardinad ereeds Fin the G-man- the G-man must 1- and he must keep his mind ale t.
Every federal agent
quired Hymnasium
#2
#AH - THAT'S
STOPPED
EDEN FROM GETTING” ANY · SHIPS THROUGH, SUEZ "
CUMMINGS' FRIGHTFUL NIGHTMARE
‘IKE” HEAD
11
exercise I+J
111 every day
except When he is on a case which would
impracticable render kateking-tī for oficial exer- else. Higher ollietals of the FBI only are required to exercise three times a week. Hoover in- cludes himself among those to whom the rule applies -e3%¢** the electric horse.
Mental fitness (Hoover refers tr The unfit and his critica 415 sufferers from "mental holl- tosis") he considers even more
mporiumi. Every FBI agent must have either law degree or professional accounting quali- fleations.
Professional account-
FBI' necessary-the
ants are
original business was mainly the enforcement of the federal anti- trust low and similar financial legislation.
His imprint ALL this was Hoover's -
HOOVER A POLICE
what ic Everybody
would
crook or
MOVING STATE?
His enemies allege the FBI chief has built an organisation so powerful
trapping were to apply, in each case, for special permission trom Hoover. H Hoover felt that The national Interest in fact de- manded wire tapping, he would
and so efficient he could easily do itselleni.
There the mailer stili stands.
bul those who remember the days of gang warfare and big crime waves have reason to be thankful to him.
LES ARMOUR By LES
through
e-
of
Lately, moral Issues have be- come more complicated. The FBI was charged with the loyalty screening
3,000,000 US Government employees and with the investigation of Communists under new legislation which, in fuel, makes it illegal to sdyo- cate the overthrow of the US. Government by force.
Hoover issued special instruc-
out tures to his staff pointing "we are
are a human organisation, functioning in a feld where the possibility of error is high,
of the
The FBI have been
about
Hoover's own a small, neat offer which ad- where temperament is sensitive efforts
established
Th⚫ Jus his private conference and where the security of the cation's Best functionẳng
a vest, ornate room which redividual is paramount. maal identification system. The oks at though it might happily men system became indispen able to use the board of directors of taught that it is more important local police authorities and, as n
General Molors.
100 establish Innocence ibon result, the FBI came to have a hand in most majer criminal in- vestigations in the country.
an
More enemies
}e
walks 10 Junch to ault," entelería nourty lioli a mile
== Uway, refuses to have a body- On the whole. the F ca gard. He never smokes, sume-
the FBI has trod operates with jueni police much 144 tus ehe drink in Washing- 5.
warily Less than 200 of the Britain's Scotland Yard cos ton bars, enjoys nightclubs
concerned 2,000,000 employees operates on major hunts with his visits to New York.
were necused of disloyalty and local police organisations.
A bachelor, he lives alone in
dismissed and, up to now hardly Hoover has often been attack-keramed house. When he is
dozen Communists, ed for unnecessarily recking it hone he reads philosophical ore than a
have been prosecuted. publicity for the FBI and for, and medical journals and some- at times, usurping authority of times plays soft dance music on local
al police forces.
bis radic
The publicity, however, is matter of dire necesalty in ដ
a
country where politics con- stantly threatens to impinge on the civil service. Only by con- have the
a sciously making the voters proud wus could
of
as it the FBI
Between the arresting zealots Justice) that the bureau would Precision engine
рядо written
the
(4
No tapping
The FBI has been even more meticulous than usual in the and presentation of evidence, Hoover has made more enemies among
than the McCarthyltes
HIS rense of right and wring mong any other single of
extende even to the most Washington politicians.
¿vidence.
and even now
Not
an or-
without even being told
full phases of police activity, extreme right-wingers feel
the early
thirties te once the FBI ins walked too warily, the charges against them were. thought he was a
not deadbeat. Under the nets, they were
shocked a Congressional com- In fact, of course, the FBI brought before the courts
Hoover sacked a big slice of Hoover hope to force the pomitee by telling it that but
FBI can only present evidence in any As- Labour the stall after he got on
tielars to honour Harlan before Department of
gents were absolutely forbidden case. It cannot, itself, even make tribunals which had the power surance from Attorney-General Stone's pledge and stay out.
up telephones in search of lurmal accusations, and ita to deport them upon conviction. Harlan Stone (later & U.S. Chiet
standards of evidence have pur- anal dang. In fact, Hoover
Tire committee
high. chairman posefully been really buik the FBI, and every and the tribunal stood Hoover, henceforth be non-political.
pointed Lat that the
Hoover's other
enemies, however, the sprawling whese job it was to sift segment of its now
Ile tightened up the qualifica-
invaskus AS to
local federal law enforcements
that he has built Ellege As operation bears his imprint.
Ilons evidence and present the [77]=
n employment for
A cuthority, 0110 story is agencies (at that time the pro- ganisation 50 powerful and Even
federal agent. rebuilt its G-man ecutions. www.
sub- every
enough to explain why it has hibition-enforcemont section was efficient that it could easily be Actually, out of the 6,000 only bureaus across the country.
the used to turn the U.S. across the country knows when
sunetimes bun necessary.
overnight separate, Hoover is away. The clatter of 350 were ever deported. Hoover About that time, the U.S. was
On one occasion,
FBI Secret Service and the Trea into police state. Hoover from head- Teletype messaLES
threw out most of the evidence plunging headlong into a
into a wave
into
MH- sury's investigation department maintains that such an organisa- quarters slows down and memos on sight. He scrupulously read of racketeering
which ushered gent checked
Western town and went to the me nct connected with the lon necessary and that it is use much of their brisk pre- all the books, articles and in what, In many cities, became local
station police
น consult FBI) did tap wires,
Intirely good so cision
long as it re- and urgency.
pamphlets
a reign of terror. The gangsters loca
He also pointed out that the mains under proper control and To the public. Hoover IS the suspects, spent hours in often often had a powerful hold on the probable hiding places of t
noted underworld character. Supreme Court had ruled wire is used for its present purposes. FBI. His name and his picture friendly conversation with the focal politicians and, so, on local He was told the chief was at tapping was legal.
It is also extremely doubtful are as familiar as those of the The acts were sweeping, and Inw enforcement agencies.
Hoover still insisted that that many FBI men would President, Marilyn Moneve and no doubt many even of the 350 In addition, the advent of the home. On arrival, the FBI man
Found the chief on his frant wire topping was immoral and operate with anyone who tried the summer's baseball heroes, had, in fuel, committed no real automobile and super-highway
Small boys wear mock G-mun ullence. But Hoover suw
porch playing cribbage with the as far as he is concerned, that to change the force's use. ad made crime much more wanted man.
However that was that.
may be any badges, and consider Hoover cach of them did have
within state a fair Meult to contain
In the end, the Attorney- one who remembers the days of Davy caring
it boundaries. under the law at more herole figure than
up a strong the At that time.
The chief pui
a compromise. gang warfare and the great federal
police had almost no argument against the arrest of General forced
FBI agents who were sure they national crime waves has reason He established not only his jurisdiction, no powers of arrest, his companion.
In the to carry
United States, eri- could only get evidence by wire to be thankful to Hoover. power regarded as sinister by ability but his Independence as and no authorisation
minals and the police have often orms. many, with pride by more, and well." with fear by criminals of every Two years later he was made Gradually. the FBI's powers worked together.
Hoover has managed to keep FBI increased until in 1932 the De- persuasion and stature. Hoover. assistant director of the Himself.
always beer (then the plain "Bureau of In- partment of Justice drew up 21 the FBI honest and, indirectly, to the FBI has done a lot toward suspected by intellcctuals and vestigen," the "Federal" was bills to enable the Bureau iberals
and, in an age char-
a touch Hoover added later) make a major war
ing up local police forces. on national cleaning acterised by suspicion ordering and then, in 1924, director, erime. It now has powers
A tense, forthright mon. to
the impression at times on a national hysteria,
In 1924. the Bureau
was deal with kidnapping. bribery, gives visitors
bulk is powered the man and his work have be riddled with political appointees, extortion, federal prison escapes, that his huge come a major issue.
incompetente, and pluin dead- and a host of other offences by a precision engine and that It has even been suggested beats.
As Hoover himself says: ranging downwards to violations his mind is an adjunct to a cal that, should Evenhower retire. No one ever let on that he of the migratory bird laws. culating machine. Hoover might be nominated for was connected with the Bureau. President. There is no doubt He would have been ashamed that he would poli a.lot 31 votes Equally, however, there
EL
| Crockett or any engine driver. tood,
The
FAL
morcover, ja
bas
iz doubt that he would re-
Fuso to enter poilies.
He has always been a elvil eervant, as his father before him was a civil servant. father died
not long
ofler Hoover left high school, and Edgar turned down a scholar- ship to the University of Vir- ginia because he couldn't afford to take it up.
Hard work
that
he
The biggest extension of the He works from am, until Bureau's powerx, however, came well efter knocking-off time in
THE GREAT SCHOOLS
CRISIS IN BRITAIN
B Suez and feud over the verge of crisis. INSTEAD, he became a govern- ment clerk nad stunded George Washington University by night. price of bread, Britons, no
the
orc
By JOHN MCKENNA
The children now Hull,
crowding London. Riding in short 300.
Walsall,
Lanarkshire and the schools were born in the UT for headlines over Watch
the "birth boom" years of the end of the war and just after, while Nearly half
new teachers must be recruited from people born in the de
the birth pression years when rate was at ils all-time low.
Short of importing teachers, there just doesn't seem to be any answer.
1
in the children
them
.
The
He graduated in law and joined doubt, would have spent British schools found 25.00 the Department of Justice, whatever time they spent selves in classes bigger than the
8.50 His passion for detailed hard
prescribed size. over worrying
national In some places, curiously. 25.00 work attracted the attention of fairs this week on the there was a teacher surplus
Attorney-General Palmer who, 35.00 in 1910 aunched his now In Great Schools Crisis.
notably in Wales. 7.50 famous nosotilt on American As the children trooped,
Nor is it by any means cer- 7.50 radicals. Under the authority of
Indeed, taken ng an overall tein that there ever will be an act back to school, it was ob sweeping sedillon
there figure,
Bro 248,000 answer passed hurriedly when the US. vious that things were in a
for Lizchera
The time will come (about 5.00 plunged into World War Ibad way.
country's school 4,00 | Falmer determined to
0,034,000
children-or 1970) when the teachers will be
But in Birmingham and Stafford- one teacher for every 20,
birth from the recruited the country,
WAL shire, selidols are on short me. not every teacher is qualified, boom" period. But it does not 3.00
to hire of course, to Cumberland has had Just the man he needed. Ho
de every job, to follow that more people $1.50
appotnica
him (though he was
"emergency teacheraeither the figure, in fact, is misleading, the, requisite talents for 1.50 then 24) Special Assistant people pulled from retirement
Since 1851, the position has inger the desire to Attorney-General In charge of or their normal jobs, or people been getting worse, despite the word bern in the boom period
whose the propecutions,
qualifications do not immenso efforts of the govern than in the slumpio Actually, the affair didn't turn measury up
the usual ment to Incrouse the supply. A mare làcroeso in birth does standard;
srdnot, lusuro à al corresponding in- teachers.. 180 of hole not hard to criado people Cany Liverpool is More than 6,000 people were ättered and ooien held for ders tenchoraji
particular: type.
1.00 Uver, Polmer thought,
elean
?
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. Palmer expected.
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REFINED SINCE 1884.
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