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THE PROFESSOR GOES

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TO WASHINGTON

XTERNALLY everything

about Sir Oliver Franks denotes the scholar. The loque-fitting clothes cascading over the aloping shoulders; the high and wide expanse of fore- bead dominating the well-shaped sensitive face; the long, Grecian nose separating the thoughtful blue-green eyes; the tall, thin, almont ascetic, frame; the pipe | cleriched · determinedly and

tightly between the. teeth.

But this academic surface hides more than it reveals of the real man beneath it. For it does not explain why this phl- losophy professor has been appointed British Ambassador to the United States

-the nation's most important dip lumutic post.

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Nor does it indicate why he was so successful in synthesis- ing and harmonising the aims and conflicts of the 16 nations at Paris last July so that a. unified report of Europe's views on the Marshall Plan could be presented to the American Con- gress.

Crystal-clear Words NOR does it explain why he

Sir Oliver Franks is Britain's new Ambassador to the United States

by MILTON shulman

FAMILY MAN

Sir Oliver with daughter Alison, aged three.

in

Chicago, to spend some time

1,000 miles from the sea, where the natural horizons are New York and San Francisco," he said.

In 1937, when only 32, he was invited to become Professor of

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ernment are good methods and a world in which a large number of countries govern themselves in that way is a better world."

Last December Sir. Oliver returned once more to Oxford intending to study, think and, as he put it "ro- charge his battenles." But he was no longer the master of his destiny. By now he had acquired the ex- perlence, the knowledge, and the training to make him a logical choice for British Ambassador to the United States,

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When it was offered to him, he nccepted. "It is the kind of job in man can refuse only when he is very -clear that there is something more important he can do," he explained.

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tions spring ultimately from the

IS EIRE'S NEW PRIME MINISTER...

ITE is John Aloysius Costello,

Moral Philosophy at the University Likes The Place. of Glasgow a remarkable distinc- tion for one so young. And Moral CIR Oliver recognises the fact that Philosophy, Sir Oliver defines

while British and American tradi- "gystematic reflections on the prin- elples underlying human conduct." war, an official telegram ordering him to report to the Ministry of America. Supply tore up the academle roots he had cultivated so well. And in an allen environment of Civil Ser- vants, statistics and production tar- gets, he applied the principles of human conduct he had studied so thoroughly,

Then, in 1930, with the coming of same roots, cach nation has habits HK.C., the new, short, grey

An Achievement DEGINNING as a temporary ad- Bministrative oficial, his intelli-

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of action and conduct which differ.. He is quite open and sincere about Premier of Eire, and he succeeds have been there the tall, dark, gaunt stranger number of times and I like the place."

overseas, Eamon de he told me, "The result of ench from visit lins been that I have wanted to Valera.. go back."

HE in Jack to fellow-members in Legends tend to cling to men of Sit Oliver's

like the Portmarnock (Co. Dublin) golf slature netoplasm to a medium. Already be house, where he is caplain with a is salt to be forbidding and aloof, a handicap of 14. disciple of the German philosopher De Valera wuld be Dev to many Kant. and n wearer of sombreros. intimates if he had many Intimates. On the contrary, journalists find him Theatre, cinema, and bird-life are

more to his taste than sports. responsive, co-operative and easy to

10. Kant is only one of group -Descartes and Plato gence, tact and determination soon talk marked him as a man to be watched. of philosophers-D By the war's end he had reached the are two more-to whom he has de- voled special attention. And he has tho in highest non-political post

worn only one wide-brimmed Stetson Ministry of Supply-an almost un-

life. in his

it in Ile bought ted achievement. precedented

Washington after he had lost the hat be had been wearing.

By 1940, Sir Oliver Franks

acknowledged as # practical

was

and

to lure

Him into either privato business or of

HE is 57, father of three sons and two daughters. He likes a drink, a smoke, a joke, a dance.

De Valera is 65, father of four living sona (one was killed) and two He neither tirinks nor daughters. smoke nor jokes nor dances.

HE is the foremost inwyer of his

rose in six years from an £850-a-year Principal in the Ministry of Supply to a £3,500- n-year Permanent Secretary of the Ministries of Supply and Aircraft Production, responsible for administering one of the most complicated and extensive of Government departments.

His voice, however, provides modern course at Bristol Gram- nationalised industrice Government's problem to which I have yet given But he dislikes speeches. some clue to this series of per- mar School, his father quickly sonal whys. For when he speaks made up his mind for him. The there comes from him an easy winning of a classical scholar- and effortless flow of crystal ship at Bristol further restrict- clear and purposeful words.. ed his freedom of choice when And each word, like a profes. he entered Oxford.

sional ballet dancer in a com- plicated choreography, moves smoothly and precisely into its place in the formulation of nin iden. Nothing is superfluous; nothing is unessential,

He goes to America with only a highly efficient man of affairs. Temp- emattering of baseball and American ting and lucrative offers were made fims. Asked about his favourite land, the keenest in cross-examina- film star, he answered: "It's not ation, and was earning £6,000 a year. De Valera, Intended for the priest- hood, became a professor of mathe- matics, As Premier he got £3,000 a year, and his speeches have punc- tuated Eire's history.

But Sir Oliver had already made hin cholce. The academie ivory lower blinked Its welcome, offering

autumn of 1940.

much thought,"

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Most Difficult Act

LTHOUGH Sir Oliver comes from

IIE was Enemy No. 1 of the irish

of bom

créte action. Under the fierce After a year on the Continent. I Paris, as head of the British "from

him ume for reading, conversation and contemplative thinking. It was

does not hold strong party views. "In Republican Army. As attorney- a temptation he could not resist. traditionally Liberal family he Spurning the more material rewards,

the past nine years I have had little general in the Cosgrave Government he returned to Queen's College, Ox- ford, to become its Provost in the opportunity to consider my political of the 20s he framed laws to sup-

position," he said.

press the LR.A. He went around Taste For Philosophy for

Hia beliefs are probably best set freely-with a bodyguard. However, Fate is seldom diverted out in a series of lectures on Central De Valera fought with the LR.A.. BY the time he was ready to by men's decisions alone. War left Planning which he delivered at the was sentenced to die for the. I.K.A.,

London Inst year. was reprieved because he was. the Marshall Plan.

with American, Hero, in prose that crackleu

breame Premier-and Braduate from Oxford in 1927 hunger as its aftermath. And with University he had cultivated a taste for hunger come

Reluctantly, but yielding to that clarity, he expressed the view that banned all mention of the I.R.A. philosophy. Offered an oppor- passionate sense of duly which some form of central planning and

HE has no conviction control is inevitable." By using his well-trained, tunity to lecture at Queen's characterises his actions, Sir Oliver I sail Fronks came back to public life a

But he admits that "the most leadership or of appointment with logical mind to dissect the College, he accepted.

difficult net of those in positions of destiny. He said after his election: worldly problems around him, 'yes' because at the time I was year after he had left it.

great power is the deliberate decision "The honour was not sought by me Sir Oliver Franks has mastered more interested in philosophy Marshall Plan Talks not to use it." And he recommends or wanted by me."

that Government should

refrain

De Valera waa ever leader, the alchemy that transmutes than in anything else," Sir

treating industry and com- When the Easter Rising was put immaterial thought into con- Oliver told me.

"Shoot me if you Marshall meree as instruments of its policy down, he said:

and treat them instead as equal | Ilke. Let my men alone." He was his burning moral

In the natlorial enterprise | born, he said, dreaming of Irish in- partners fuckd

Brash

with different but complementary dependence. ing solutions emerge where only Italian, and attending occa of the economic problems of

functions." responsible

Clear thinking and

fervour moral

HE has become the new Taoiseach of unanimity OFC measure

needed to lead the world (tee-shock). He saw his. Govern- attained by the 16 nations in their through the jungle of economic and men: ratified by 75 votes to 05. He political crises that face it. Slr went to the Prime Minister's rooms, response to America's offer of aid.

He subsequently spent a month in Oliver Franks possesses enough of A new era had begun. washington expinining, discussing both to equip him for the task of De Valera reluctantly vacated the and answering every question and leadership which, will be his. One rooma. For 16 years he, had filed uspect of the European report with might well say with the great orator them with his spirit. An epoch had the American-State-Department Lord-Brougham,The schoolmaster effed. individual Congressmen, important. is abroad, and I trust to him, armed Government leaders and represente with his primer, against the soldier

Zeal

the

and

his

the

ол delegation light of his analytical reason- studying German, French and Plan... falks, stalemates existed before. His sional lectures at Heidelberg Europe were largely career demonstrates. the truth and Berlin universities, Oliver for of the axiom that "philosophy Franks settled down to teach. is common-sense in a dress During his next 10 years only suit."

two significant incidents inter- rupted his quiet, secluded life in Faced Alternative

the cloisters of Queen's.

Barbara In 1931 he marrled YET his decision to become a

philosopher was more his Mary Tanner, an Oxford graduate, father's than his own.

and they are now the fond parents For al

of two daughters, Caroline, 8, and though the Rev. R. S. Franks Alison, 3. And in 1935, as a guest had been a brilliant student in lecturer, he spent three months at mathematics and physics at the University of Chicago teaching Cambridge, he had always re. Ainerican students his concept of 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. gretted his failure to study the morals and life.

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Here he made his first contact with the nation with which hls Oliver future has become so significantly linked. The impact this experience made upon him can best be left to his own words. "I was very im- portant for a small istander like me

Thus, when

young Franks born in -1905-W faced with the alternative of

classical taking either

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of every significant body "In full military array." American opinion. It has been sald that when he left many of those- working with him on the Marshall Plan felt like travellers suddenly bereft of their 'maps.

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Sir Oliver belleves that the inter- est of the American people in the Marshall Plan is derived from combination of innate generosity and practicni policy. "Their generosity is moved by a knowledge of the conditions that would superyenc in Europe if no hein came," lie said. "Their policy springs from the belief that

democratle, methods of gov-

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

HE annual attempt to in- Bitter truth

duce Mrs Wretch to re- turn to her first love, and do a short season' with Wugwell's Circus, is in full swing.

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from a regional control commis- stoner's office in the nearest, town. 4 ALL I want her to do." persist. But that's not good enough for

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Wugwell, "is to Jump go-ahead fellows. We want cows to the through the burning hoop, and then be milked by electricity from get sprayed with ink by the clown stratosphere, thanks to plucky little Anselmo." "Is that all?" retorted milkmaids in Jet-propelled rocket- Colonel Wretch, sarcastically. - planes. If the wrong herd gels Wugwell called in person at liking this tone of superiority, Wug milked, blame the atmospheries. Wretch Manor, and put his proposi- well said, "Let me remind you old tion to Colonel Wretch. These are sporty-guts, that your lady wife be- For evenings by the fire

gan life by handing our ape the bell democratic days," he said. "Not de to ring for its dinner." The Colonel mocratic enough," replied

winced as though he had received, Colonel, "for any wife of mine to go smack in the face, an enormous lump round the ring with her feet on two of decayed bloater. horses' backs." "Colonel," said Wug Wrong herd,

"the

Miss Whickster”

well, "would it surprise you to know that the lady who balance the glass of port on the seal's nose is the cousin of a baronet?" "Nothing sur- prizes me nowadays," sald the rage, and one young enthusiast talks Colonel, "If merely disgusts me." of whole herds of cows being milked

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