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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1988.

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The Prime Minister with his "sending-off" party at Heston. Sir Alexander Cadogan is Permanent Under-Secretary at the Foreign Office. You know the others.

The Men at

Guy Mr. Chamberlain's

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1938.

THE KING & QUEEN P

OF CANADA

ROBABLY until recently

many people had never heard the name. Then

the newspapers report that Mr.

Messages from Canada re- Chamberlain on his visit to Herr joice over the announcement Hitler is to be accompanied by

Sir Horace Wilson, chief in-"

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that the King and Queen intenddustrial adviser to the Govern-trial adviser to the Government.

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In Canada the King will be hailed both as Sovereign and as Supreme Ambassador, wherever he

he will moves carry not only the authority of the Crown but also the deep good will and friendship of the country whence he comes.

Two of the Commonwealth States, Australia and New Zen- land, have already had the op-

portunity of greeting King

|George and Queen Elizabeth in their days as Duke and Duchess of York. Before ascending the throne, they also visited Africa. But to Canada falls the supreme honour of receiving them as King and Queen.

The Moon's Acquittal

ment."

Five years later he was seconded to the Prime Minister for special duties. In the interim (the world uncomprehending), Horace drowsy wilson lind arrived.

And $0 at last another mystery man of politics still emerges fron the shadow:

of Downing Street He was then, as he is now, plyst- Into the full glare of world cally unimpressive. publicity.

It is not a bit tog.soon. Horace Wilson is too useful a man to be hidden away in that stuffy, rather

So few people notice him when avercrowded office of his on the n turns every morning

rat floor of No. 10, just a few steps Downing Street and knock on the into up from Mr. Chamberlain's own door of No. 10. study. You ought to know about Which is precisely as he wants

hini.

it. In the block of mansion flats in

Who is he? What is he like? South Kensington where he lives Well, it is a long story. But it from Monday to Friday, few of the can be summed up in a single sen other tenants even know his name. Sir Horace Wilson is the In a pleasant part of Bussex, where power beband Mr. Chamberlain's he has a "country place" such as

lence.

elbow.

The man whom the public does not know is at once the. thinking box and the sounding box of the Prime Minister. First. Nevilte Chamberlain thinks, Then Sir Horace thinks it out--and finally the Prime Minister acts.

you would expect a £3,000 a year Civil servant to maintain, he keeps himself to himself. I wife and his schooled in the same tradition of non and two daughters are

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reserve.

He is not a good mixer-a fact which can hardly have helped him in the industrial disputes he was set to solve.

as unruftied when he finished as

There was the general stoppage Fifty-six years old. G.C.B. of 1926. He was the man behind G.C.M.G., C.B.E.. Wilson is the the scenes then-Government go- An amouncement that the Government handyman, head of between working 20 hours a day, the unofficial brains trust that has sprung up round Mr. Chamber when he started. There was the cont stoppage of the same year were again he displayed his almost frightening capacity for keeping cool.

lain.

Now that Bir Maurice Hankey la

of the

moon had been detected in de- viation from its predicted course may have produced correspond- ing perturbations in astronomi-one, Wilson is the most powerful cal circles, but to the luy public Civil servant of the whole 400,000

Slr Warren Fisher, it was hardly news, Inconstancy Treasury, their permanent head, in the moon was entirely in

not excepted. He has the Cabinet's character and was just what car-and the Cabinet's confidence. might be expected. Ilave not Since the slump of 1931, it has been the ports through the ages

his "Yes" "No" which hing testified to this inconstancy: and have they not been as diligent observers of the moon AN any astronomer? It WAS Milton himself who foresaw what has now been charged against Earth's satellite when he wrote of

The wandering moon. Hiding to her highest noon Like

one who had been led

· estrazi Through the heaven's wide path-

less way.

Milton, it will be observed, with the magnanimity of a great poct, suggested an extenuation for the irregularity which he recorded, and notably enough the plea is admitted to be valid. Milton was not merely, merciful, he was just.

For it turns out that the moon has in fact been led as- tray. Her conduct has been irreproachable and entirely worthy of a well-conducted lady. If she has seemed to deviate from her predicted course the fault is not hers, but that of the

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whoso rotation on his nxis has been inconsistent. Confirmatory evidenco of this irregularity has been obtained from a number of trust-worthy witnesses-the Sun, Venue, Morcury and Marg -who agree in fixing the res- w.lponsibility on the Earth.

made or damned the work-finding

schemes of a dozen Ministers,

Discovered by Mr. Lloyd George. Ittend of Earl Baldwin, adviser to Mr. J. 13. Thomas (who called him

times now. When he was sent up He has looked grim a good many

to Manchester to try to rationalise

it "ruddy wonder," and also I

"Orace"), he is now, counsellor- in-chief to the Prime Minister.

Do not doubt that in these vital hours the almost unknown Sir Horace Wilson's influence on your own destiny-and that of every other citizen-is very real.

And, alner this is an odd world. flo not be surprised to learn that he looks rather like an ageing and unsuccessful clerk whose firm ex- pects to be bankrupted next week, Such is the way of things.

He was born in Bournemouth where his parents ted a respectable if unexciting life. Horace Jou went to Kurnelia School round the corner until his aptress for figures deckled Mr. Wilson, snr, that his boy should go up to the London School of Economics.

At that

home of scholarship. which has produced more revolu- tionary handling of statisties.

men, they marvelled at his 1le could juggle with them like a conjurer; and achieve results so simple that they looked like a first exercise in

arithme.ic.

Of course, he shot ahead in the Civil Service. Ills undoubted! ability and the war made progresa certain. Mr. Lloyd George-who did some qucer things in his time but seldom kept a good man down -pusled kim on,

In 1930 he was appointed to the nowly-created post of chief indus-

the cotton trade. When he went to Ottawa as one of the advisera who helped to produce that lamentable series of agreements, When he walked through Down- ing Street these last few mornings. There he comes and goes with greater freedom than most inembers of the Cabinet. They must be sent for; he is always nt hand.

Hu it is who is credited with the Iden of sending Lord Runciman to Prague. No doubt he urged Mr. Chamberlain to take that plano to Hitler,

He astonished them when they heard that he was going to Berch- tesgaden, too. For though Sir Horace belongs to the Travellers' Club, ho 13 1

stay-at-home Englishman, seldom

travelling farther than to his house in Bussex. And at last it is official con- firmation of all the gossips have said. Sir Horace Wilson is big.

But not popular, Those who dis- Hike him believe that his influence on the Government, his closeness to Mr. Chamberlain, is dangerous. Mr. Chamberlain thinks otherwise.

And now for Mr. Chamberlain's other companion on this peace milssion.

If an Under-Secretary of State, or somebody of the kind, should happen to say in your hearing, "I should like William's views an this," you can be sure of two things.

First, that it is a knotty prob- tem. Second, that Mr. William

In the House of

Strang, C.M.G., M.BE., is going to be consulted.

William," na all the Foreign Office calls him, is one of the cx- ceptions to the old rule that you can never be anybody in the service unless you are Eton and Harrow and Christchurah And Trinity, nud all thint,

He was shocking) not nt n public school. He was (tut-tut) at London University; then at the Sorbonne, in Paris, just before Die war,

He served in the Berkshires and on the stall, and when it was all over, went. via the Prace Conference. inte The diplomatic service Third Secre tary at Belgrade. Since then he has Rone up and up, because there daya sheer ability really does count.

Sirang's assets aro on infinite capacity for working at top speed for ton hours, mi excellent command of bangunges, a cool shrewd judgment.

"What a wine owl it is," sald a cer- tain Secretary of State, affectionately referring to William's round spectacles, an encyclopedie knowledge, a gift for

selling on " 'with people, atıd twinkling zense of humour.

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He takes his job neriously. You would take him Berhaps for a student rather than for a diplomat. And yout would not be for wrong.

He likes to spend his evenlugs not in society" but reading diplomatic history. That is one reason for his level sense of proportion,. He can see things in perspective.

lo s only 15. But he has been Charge d'Affaires in Moscow, Chief of The League of Nations Scellon, hend of the Central European Department -his present job. Soon he will be a Minister somewhere: the Ofice is guing to miss him, badly when that tay comes.

William" has his own views about policies and people. But it would bo iscreet to talk of them. He, bring the soul of discretion, never does. H

na offein).

The P.M. could not havo a belter ex- pere at his side than the "wise ow!" with the quiet smile.

Hitler

was up a steep ascent of to the house. The door swung phone, bathroom and its fresh

1,000 feet from his hotel that open, showing him and his party Mr. Cimmberlain was taken to into a dimly-lit hall. Hitler's fortress-chancellery,

From there he was shown into Hitler's private wing. the place Once the house up there was where he can shut himself away modest. Just a cottage. Now It is from everybody--even his guests. a huge mansion, an impregnable fortress, and fully-equipped Government office.

It 15 Germany's alternative capital, When Mr. Chamberinli and his staff arrived there, they found no mere summier house, but n building and grounds as fit to receive a foreign delegation us anything in Berlin.

To them it must have seemed a little pocket State-rather like the

Vatican.

flowers.

Outside is a built-up terrace with tables, easy chairs, and big coloured umbrellas standing on it. All around is a garden full of nowers.

The house is bulit partly of con- There in the celebrated gun-

crete and partly of wood-making parlour the meeting took place. Il 1 not an otec, but a cheery Davarlan chalet.

it partly fortress and partly typical

lounge, into which the mountain sunshine beats.

Great underground bomb-proof, gas-proof chambers have been Hitler likes to seat his guesta inuut. All round the estate are con- the great bay window. Farther erete forts, with machine-guns in back in the room is a big English them. Anti-aircraft guns пг fireplace-piled high with pine- mounted in the grounds.

If war Jogs in cold weather.

emme, Berchtesgaden might be the seat of the German Government.

It was farther down the hili where Mr. Chamberlala slept last The view from the windows is aside for him at the Grand Hotel, night. The Royal Sulte was set one of the finest in the Bavarian over which fluttered the Union As they approached, there was a Alps. Right opposite is the Watz- Jack, flanked by Swastika banners.. polo across the road; frontler mann, 3,000 feet high. (Ben Nevis,

Eight Blackshirt guards, were. guards blood with loaded rifles: Britain's highest mountain. 15

sent to guard him. right round the eight square 4,400 feet high.) miles of estate was an electric fence topped with wire, viciously Limestone slopes all round shut off The hills are steep and wooded, barbed.

the rest of the world,

This is the suite that the wife of original cottage.

Iller has added greatly to his the ex-Kalaer uzea when she comes When in the to Berchtesgaden. It has a sitting- curly twenties ho used to go and room, a breakfast alcove, a bed- rest there he was a not particularly room, and a bathroom. well paid Party official. His sister used to do" for him.

In a suite on the same foor niept Now there are plenty of servante. many's Foreign Becretary.

Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ger- There are luxurious bedrooms for about 100 Kurais, The rooms aro. Next door, in the Villa Wahlhelm. equipped like those of a luxury were housed the staff of the hotel. Each room has its telo. Uritish and German delegations..

But there were no" frontier" formalities for Mr. Chamberlain. He went straight through and up

To-day's Thought. How strong an influence works 索陪 well-placed 100rds,

-CHAPMAN.

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