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...Robert Hankey, 46, now Minister in Budapest and once Anthony Eden's assistant private secretary. This week, Iran refused to accept...
...Foreign Affairs, and that was when his power began. Though Foreign Secretaries came & went, Sir Robert's influence remained so strong that it was said he was one of the three men who really ruled Britain. (The others: Sir Warren Fisher, Permanent Secretary of the Treasury, Sir Maurice Hankey, Secretary of the Cabinet and Clerk of the Privy Council.) Sir Robert had a hand in all the steps that led to Britain's isolation: the knifing of Locarno (when Britain would not support France against the German occupation of the Rhineland); the Anglo-German Naval Pact...
...Voluntary Methods." Nearest any member of the Government has come to touching the Keyres Plan in public was when Minister Without Portfolio Baron Hankey told the House of Lords that, "It has not been rejected." A forced loan was out of the question, said Lord Hankey, while the Government is still trying to see whether the same object cannot be attained voluntarily. In retort last week Professor Keynes snorted: "To depend on voluntary methods, when the Treasury has to take half the national income, is comparable to relying on these methods to raise an army...
Brisk, businesslike, ultraconservative Colonel Sir Maurice Hankey. permanent Secretary to the Cabinet, the Committee of Imperial Defense, and Clerk of the Privy Council, last week relinquished these posts, accepted a $9,000-a-year directorship on the Suez Canal Co. board...
Concluded Lord Melchett: "In the hands of Sir Maurice Hankey [Secretary of the Committee for Imperial Defense] there is the famous War Book, containing detailed plans about practically everything for the event of war. Well, we ought to have a Peace Book, mobilization plans for times of peace!" ¶ "Officials here are trying assiduously to prevent the British Lion from roaring or showing its teeth as Mussolini twists its tail," cabled United Press last week from London. "Within the limits of freedom of the press prevailing in Britain, where there is no censorship, authorities are trying to modulate the openly...