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THE

TELEGRAPH, HONGKONG

FRIDAY,

JULY

1938..

Man with a Load of Secrets

he is going at last! The king-pin of the inner machine of British Government, Sir Maurice Paschal Alers Hankey, G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.O.V.O., K.C.B., C.B., is going to retire.

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Hia departure will leave the Cabinet and the Committee of Imperial Defence without their Secretary,

Privy Couneli without its Clerk. He will take with him more high away secrets than any other man has ever heard.

They do say that he has kept a dlary in secret cypher like that other great civil servant, Samuci that, this terrible Pepys-and record of human frailty in High Places will be revented in a hun- dred years' time

Sir Maurice himself has always denied this tale with a good, deal of heat. It seems alnost worth Uving for another hundred years to find out who is right,

If you saw him in the street you would not bother to look again. Grey and rather bald now, it is certainly a fine, intelligent head. But it is set on a short, alroost elfin figure, precisely dressed and walking rather dainilly.

He has made his way by per- Bansion, and because he is always right. No one ever tripped him up Why! when he gave on a fact. evidence before the Arms Commis- sion as the champion of the private Merchants of Death he went back to the Third Crusade and the twelfth century for the basis of his case.

Thorough. That's what he is. Extremely efficient, with a pro- digious memory and power tør work. He has lived only for his work, and for his family circle down at Limpsfivic, in Surrey,

He has no use for "society "-

His name is Maurice Hankey, and he resigned last month from his post of Secretnry to the Cabinet to become a director of the Suez Canal Company. He has been;--

Asst. Secretary, Committee of Imperial Defence, 1908. Secretary to Committee of Imperial Defence since

1912.

Secretary, Cabinet since 1916.

Clerk of the Privy Connell since 1923.

Secretary, General Imperial Conference, 1921, 1923,

1926, 1930 and 1937,

British Secretary, Peace Conference, 1919. British Secretary. Washington Conference, 1921. British Secretary, Genoa Conference, 1922. British Secretary, Reparations Conference, 1924. Secretary-General, Hague Conference, 1929-30. Secretary-General, London Naval Conference, 1930. Secretary-General, Lausanne Conference, 1932; and Member of the Governing Body of Rugby School,

Just quiet scorn. Never goes any- where or sres anybody, though he often wears his Old Rugbeinn tic.

Rises at 6.30 every morning, winter and summer, so he says. then swims and walks precisely a mile to keep himself n.

He likes you to think of him as an Australian. But it won't do. He was born on the Riviera, and then certainly went to South Aus- tralla for some years,

But his father emigrated (1 sup- pose this is the word Sir Maurice would like) back to Brighton in time to send his son to Rugby,

Thence he joined the Royal Marine Artillery. But brains would tell even in 13.M.8. Ramillies, flag- ship of the Mediterrancan Fleet in 1899. And before long Lieutenant Hankey bobbed up in the Naval Intelligence Department,

By 1907 he was Naval Intelli- gence Olcer in the Mediterranean, Fisher spotted There Jackle"

"Bursting with brains," declared the wrinkled old Admiral many times, and with such enthusiasm that Major Hankey was recalled to England as Assistant Secretary to

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CANTON

AGENTS

for the

Hongkong

Imperial

the Committee uf Defence.

The Assistant Becretary was a Lord Laber prodigious success.

the He had

same liked him. "Eminence Grise" sort of mind. Indifferent to the outward signs of power, he delighted in wielding its actualities unseen, unknown, ex- cept to the "people who really mattered."

Lord Esher liked him. And so, in consequence, did Mr. Asquith and Mr. Balfour, and King Ed- ward VII and King George V. Once you did business with Major Hankey, you could not help liking him. He made it all so plain and simple. He always had all the ouper. He wrote the finest precis in Whitehall.

Best of all, when you were all stuck for what to do and sat round the Committee Table, trying to look wise and feciing glum, Hankey always had a memorandum ready which gave you a new idea.

In fact, Maurice Hankey has been responsible for as much polley as any single Minister since Jackie Fisher Arst brought him home to his life work.

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He has a flair for using his Ministers, for getting the best out of them all, for smoothing out quarrols and persuading scomingly irreconcilable personalities to work together in sweet reason.

Nevertheless Bir Maurice is not a great original. mind. He has not that grasp of affairs which ori-- ginates constructive policies.

His genlus is to absorb and co- ordinate other men's contributions to a problem, to produce from their apparent conflict a sensible and workable compromise on which all are only ready enough to agree.

What a man to have always at your elbow in a Cabinet! No won- der a man like Lord Swinton says, "There is no second Hankey!"

You can see now, granted his

Fisher

pushed qualities, once Hankey inside the magic circle how he was bound to get on. The panel here shows how he has climbed the rungs of the official ladder,

And he has clung to the top once he got there. Has this been a good thing for ua nil and for the world? It is hard to answer that ques- tion fairly, because no one knows how much Sir Maurice is respon- sible for, how much happened in apite of all he could do,

On the debit side we can place his militaristic outlook. He was not "sailor-and-soldier-too" with- out absorbing a permanent flavour of both services.

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Flis evidence before the Arms Commission was deplorable from the point of view of a peace lover. But then Bir Maurice, to do him justice, has never posed as a paci- fst.

There was at any rate danger in the fact that a man with such

views determined

on military matters should have occupied such a commanding position.

On the credit side Sir Maurice is always utterly reliable, utterly conscientious, utterly loyal. He has kept Cabinets straight when they wanted to wobble and subside in nolay vacillation.

He has maintained all the 'most scrupulous traditions of the British Civil Service. He has always helped and advised Ministers new to their jobs with so much tact that they wondered how easy they found it all

His family? I nearly forgot. He has not had much time for them. There has always been so much to do: so little time to do it.

Lady Harkey, whom Sir Maurice marrted in 1903, is a South African, and as quiet and unassuming a Indy as he is a gentleman. They have three sons, two of them who are doing very nicely, thank you, in the Diplomatic Service, and one daughter who married Sir Ernest Benn's son, and lives near her parents at Limpsfield.

He has latterly cost us £3,000 a year, less Income Tax which wo After have recovered from him.

the war we gave him $25,000 to show our gratitude.

In future, besides bis pension, about which

amount to may £2,000, he will receive roughly £6,000 a year as a British Govern- ment Director of the Suez Canal Company.

And, take him all in all, I con-

sider him cheap

at the price.

T.D.

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HOW IT BEGAN Berdanier

BUTTONS ON BACK OF COAT

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