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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY,

Man with a Load of Secrets

O he is going at last!

The king-pin of the inner machino of British Government, Sir Maurice Paschal Alers Hankey, G.C.B., G.O.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.B., CB., la going to retire.

His departure will leave the Cabinet and the Committee of Imperial Defence without their Accrotary, tho Privy Council without its Clerk. He will take

with him

high away

more secrets than any other man has ever heard,

They do any that he has kept a diary-in secret cypher like that other great civil servant. Samuel Popys-and that this terrible record of human frality in High Places will be revealed in a hun- dred years' time

Bir Maurice himself has always denied this tale with a good deal of heat. It seems almost worth living 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, almost elfin figure, precisely dressed und walking rather daintily.

He has made his way by per- suasion, and because he is always right. No one ever tripped him up on a fact.

Why when he gave ovidence before the Arms Commis- alon 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

Ae.

His name is Maurice Hanicey, and he resigned last month from his post of Secretary to the Cabinet to become a director of the Suez Canal Company. He has becn

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

1912.

Secretary, Cabinet stnec 1916.

Clerk of the Privy Council 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.

Never goes any- just quiet scorn. where or sees anybody, though he often wears his Old Rugbelan tie,

Rises at 0.30 every morning. winter and summer, so he says, then swims and walks precisely a mille to keep himself fit.

Ra

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

But his father emigrated (I sup- pose this is the word Sir Maurice would like back to Brighton in Lime to send his son to Rugby.

the Royal Thence he joined Marine Artillery. But brains would tell even in H.M.S. Ramilles, Bag- ship of the Mediterranean Fleet in 1800.

And before long Lieutenant Hankey bobbed up in the Naval Intelligence Department.

By 1907 he was Naval Intelli- Kence Officer in the Mediterranean,

There That's what he is.

him.

Thorough. Extremely celent, with a pro- digious memory and power for work. He has lived only for his work, and for his family circle down at Limpafield. In Surrey.

He has no use for "society "

"Jackle" Fisher spotted

"Bursting with bruins," declared the wrinkled old Admiral many times, and with auch enthusiasın that Majur Hankey was recalled to Bugland as Assistant Secretary to

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The Assistant Secretary was a prodigious success. Lord Esher İlked him. He had the same "Eminence Grise" sort of mind. Indiferent to the outward signs of power, he delighted in wielding its Actualities unseen, unknown, ex- cept to tho people who really mattered.

Lord Esher liked him. And 30, 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 bim. He made it all so plain and simple. He always had all the papers. He wrote the finest precis In Whitehall.

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

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

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Ko has a flair for using his Ministers, for getting the best out of them all, for mouthing out quarrels and persuading seemingly irreconcilable personalities to work togother in sweet reason.

Nevertheless Sir Maurice is not a great original mind. He has not that grasp, of affairs which ori- ginates constructivo, policles.

His genius is to absorb and co- ordinate other men's contributions to

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 saya, "There is no second Hankey!"

You can see now, granted his qualities, once Fisher pushed 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 indder.

And he has clung to the top once he got there. Has this been a good thing for us all and for the world?

It is hard to answer that ques- tion fairly, because no one knows how much Bir Maurice is respon- sible for, how much happened in spite of all he could do,

On the debit side we can place his militaristic outlook. He was not with- a "sailor-and-soldier-100" out absorbing a permanent flavour of both services.

Hla ovidence before the Arms Commission was deplorable from the point of view of a peace lover. But then Sir Maurice, to do him Justice, has never posed as a pacl- Ast.

There was at any rate danger in the fact that a man with such determined vlows on military matters should have occupied such a commanding position.

On the credit side Bir Maurice is always utterly reliable, utterly conscientious, utterly loyal.

He

has kept Cabinets straight when they wanted to wobble and subside in noisy 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 Hankey, whom Bir Maurico married 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 ono daughter who married Sir Ernest Benn's son, and lives near her parents at Limpsfeld.

He has latterly cost us £3,000 a year, less Income Tax which we have recovered from him. After the war we gave him '£25,000 to show our gratitude.

In future, besides his pension, which

about may amount to £2,000, he will receive roughly £5,000 a year as a British Govern- ment Director of the Suez Canal Company.

And, take him all in all, I con-

sider him cheap T.D.

at the price.

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By Paul E.

HOW IT BEGAN Beranier

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Old Ship Log Found

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