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...Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs since 1930, Sir Robert is generally conceded to have "made" British foreign policy in its more important aspects, and he more than anyone else has kept the British & French Governments in a position of ''maintaining the balance in Spain" between Rightists and Leftists. It is Sir Robert's view that nothing would be more dangerous for Europe, nothing more likely to provoke an immediate war, than for Germany to feel there had been a clear-cut "Red" victory in Spain, or for France to feel there had been...
Incidentally Sir Robert has had the British Secret Service under his immediate control, and has disbursed many thousands of pounds of the Foreign Office's "secret funds"-money for the spending of which the law not only does not require but forbids any detailed accounting to Parliament. Beyond all this, Sir Robert, himself, is recognized as a brilliant, persuasive and what the British call "sound" man, at whose London house the Prime Minister of the day and even the King are glad to lunch or dine. It was no wonder, therefore, that two small news items about Sir Robert...
...first item declared that His Majesty had been graciously pleased to elevate Sir Robert to the title of Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. The second announced that the Prime Minister had caused to be created for Sir Robert the new post of Chief Adviser to the Foreign Office. His duties, according to this unusual official announcement, will be "advising the Secretary of State [Anthony Eden] upon all major questions of policy concerning foreign affairs . . . and representing the Foreign Office on any occasions, whether at home or abroad...
While Mr. Eden, whose good looks and idealistic pro-League reputation are reputedly worth some 1,500,000 votes to the Government at election time, remains Foreign Secretary, sound Sir Robert was thus given the widest conceivable authority and mobility in conducting British foreign policy. Technically he will still be subordinate to Mr. Eden, advising the Foreign Secretary only on request, but the terms of the new appointment show that Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain intends to use Sir Robert much as President Roosevelt uses Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, to, handle big diplomatic jobs wherever they crop...
Best-known Greek adventurers of all time have been Homer's Ulysses and the late Sir Basil Zaharoff, munitions tycoon and Europe's ''Mystery Man." Until last week, no one thought of drawing a parallel between the two. Forever Ulysses, a fictionized biography, makes its hero a modern Greek named Ulysses whose career, recalling Zaharoff's, also recalls Ulysses...