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Significantly meanwhile British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, no friend of Il Duce, went to "vacation" on the French Riviera, although Mr. Eden has only just finished enjoying the long English Christmas and New Year holidays. In London foreign policy was thus in full charge of Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, a leading figure last year in "The Deal" which sealed the fate of Haile Selassie (TIME, Oct. 14, 1935 et seq.). Last week such veteran correspondents as the New York Times P. J. Philip scarcely veiled their overwhelming hunch that the French, Italian and German Ambassadors and Sir Robert were sealing...
...John Bull's Secret Service," said the Herald Tribune last November, "is catching and jailing at a record rate spies with German contracts, and worrying the Nazi war staff and diplomatic chieftains by an uncanny knowledge of things which the Nazis thought were impenetrable secrets. . . . Vansittart is the only man living who knows all the Number Ones of the British Secret Service. Even the Prime Minister is denied that knowledge. But one other man is let in on the money side. He is Sir Warren Fisher, Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and Head of the Civil Service...
...separate. Under a Foreign Office rule, if an official paper is found to contain references to their doings, that paper is destroyed and a new one made and entered. Last week the British Embassy in Washington officially and the U. S. State Department informally denied that Sir Robert Vansittart is Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, affirmed that they do not know...
...stretch in the British Foreign Office (see p. 22). To Buckingham Palace was frequently summoned the brilliant directing diplomat who is not always permitted to prevail at once in shaping the British Cabinet's foreign policy but usually manages to prevail sooner or later. Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, Permanent Undersecretary of the Foreign Office...
With Sir Robert Vansittart in Berlin and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden vacationing in the country last week, the British Foreign Office happily came out with exactly the sort of announcement its civil servants love to make. Apropos of nothing they announced that His Majesty's Government have re-examined and consider fully binding upon themselves, "the Treaties of Alliance with Portugal, dating back...