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Driving up to Stoke D'Abernon, the 23-year-old Oxford graduate nervously fingered his blond, bristly mustache. With a good war record behind him (he had lost an eye in a Jap air raid on Burma), he had come to Stoke in search of a peacetime career. A "houseparty" exam at the government's 300-year-old manor house is now the way to get a topflight civil service job in England...
Since its beginning less than three years ago Stoke has examined 2,725 candidates, passed only 608. Though a Conservative M.P. recently complained in the House of Lords that Stoke was turning out "plausible smart alecks," the government's Final Selection Board has accepted Stoke's recommendations nine out of ten times. Foreign service takes all its officers from Stoke; home service still chooses some by written and oral exams. U.S. Civil Service Commissioner Arthur S. Flemming, after watching 21 candidates go through Stoke, returned to the U.S. "definitely impressed." Said he last week: "The ones that survived...
Ballroom Questionnaire. In the quiet grandeur of Stoke's ballroom, the candidates were greeted by Colonel J. R. Pinsent, 59, chairman of Britain's Civil Service Selection Board. Colonel Pinsent invited the candidates to patronize the manor-house bar (Scotch, 30? a nip) in their free time, added a warning: "Naturally, if you start wrecking the furniture, we would probably have some doubts as to your fitness for government service...
...commission contained one pacifist, the Venerable Percy Hartill, Archdeacon of Stoke-on-Trent, who registered his disapproval of any kind of modern war in a minority note. But the report itself gave short shrift to his view: "There are those who say that the solution is to counter aggression by love. Ultimately that may be true. But is it applicable to the problem that confronts us? ... A nation that by disarmament rendered itself defenseless would not be assisting in the prevention of aggression, which is the only way to preserve justice in the world...
...political scientist, Walter Stoke, has long been working on a book to guide people in evaluating political ideas and politicians, a project which might have been useful in Louisiana a decade ago. Stoke favors no political party ("Temperamentally I'm bent to be against the party in power"), and no pat educational theory ("Both John Dewey and Robert Hutchins can play on my team"). But by the time L.S.U.'s Board of Supervisors picked him from 144 candidates, they knew what his terms would be. He had made it clear that he wanted "full authority to administer...