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aly Met os ae fn na) Siig pale te I On San ARBOR cite ope oe Bem aE wou pee ee eee oe pale ne cree gene nema cet or Cpe Me oe 4 jou te 1543) Former KR snign Office = “7 NOVEMBER 1955 Officlals--niappeorance hy: . }¢ {Mr. CrossManJ ooo) 2020 tetcl) reform do? 1 cut the Foreiga Office, - . bin our codes, because of documents being from the rest of the Civil Service & thee cos oe Bees Jeft about, or because of careless talk; made it aulonomous, and, at the : , ope and it should be that way. for we get time, sadly undermined the speciali : L mine-tenths of our information about the services inside the Foreign Office. , . roi. other side by reading their newspa ; : ; by doing things uhich can Be doce we Lwas very struck by three excell ‘. -k: ublic, or by using techniques for getting 2tticles in the Manchester Guardian & r Inside which are not known to them. week—three thoughtful articles—on 6 re: ~ ete: i wo ‘ . subject. My tentative conclusion is t j This means that the Foreign Office, tike we got the worst of both worlds, 4 re 2a ae hs every other part of the Civil Service, must certainly Jost by the diminution of ¢ ’ ’ have strict rules about carelessness and specialised services; and we probat pomernmenns omen peers ° cannot go On saying. “We are t00 gained nothing, instead, The autonot te eke talented and sensitive to work under Pat ¥ 1 \ ” vs, granted to it only increased the arrogas : fou security rules.” As a matter Of fact, it iS of the Foreign Office and the jealousy: L. fe & greai renci tO nave security rules. § . t] A . ° a . : a of us who had the secret for ten weeks the fecal of giving the Fovega Othe hoe ' before D-day thanked God for security. rivileged Sitiog. ne Poreige & .- kg GQ There it was, a corset to keep us safe. Hf PIIND CECE POsIOM. eer what oe : es are we put the documents back in the safe, we I should like to see the Foreign Off : 7 oy were safe, If we ielephoned on the correct pan of the Civil Service along with ever : 2. line, we could not be court-martialled. nody else, ‘but encouragement to fost: i- a an It is untrue to say that this type of {he specialist services, which it requir, z F - security, if sensibly enforced, is demoral- just as every other Department requin cpt 2 7 T ising. If there is not too much of it, and them. I do not see that the case k -. oR F every regulation makes sense, the Foreign cutting it off has been proved in any wa ~ — Oifice should not think it infra dig. to be =90F. H OL may Say So to some of my ba ; i - like an ordinary officer in the Army or Friends bclow the Gangway, do I belie + ‘ : an aircraft worker, who is subject to this that the so-called democratisation of t Z ae sort of thing. I hope that what the Foreign Office has had any of the effea i n+ i Foreign Secretary means is that the which Ernest Bevin hoped for. ~.:* -- wee roe : orcign Office did learn this lesson in -- ret us be candid. If we take 100 boy g _ 5 aT 195 I and has already accepted the need from Jesser grammar schools, we do po 5° - toe y observe security regulations, ;, take 100 people who are Jess snobbig : ce pe deed As for security against the spy, I think ‘than those from larger grammar schook ‘ t er een ae that this issue is relatively unimportant. What we have done generally—I am gla i Ree OF The number of people to whom this sort we have done it—is to take the best fron é i-. wa of thing will be applied in our country is the secondary and smaller grammz 3: - otc ae small. Our great danger is that of getting schools in rather larger quantities and & & : so panicky about the relatively small reduce the high proportion of the of a roblem of searching out spies in the public school. But if anybody thinks thz 4 . oreign Office that we shall neglect the that is democratisation, that is not th ro big problem of setting up a security case. It very often happens that a persor E organisation against Jeaks.,. oa ce, uit. who comes up from be low and enters th ¢ The final point is this. The real prob- Foreign Office. with its august position bd Jem of the Foreign Office is not security in order to obtain the protective colour 5. at all, but whether the reforms which were ing required, becomes more Forcigt — introduced ten years ago were soundly Office than the rest. Indeed, in my litth ee - based and have produced the right results. experience of going round embassies, | % 1 may be told that they were introduced have found that, on the whole, the mai 7 —_ ten years ago and that it is much too early from the smaller grammar school is eve: ee ee i i ied i for another inquiry. 1 should have more Foreiga Office than those who cam " Dol EE | ca . thought that the period of ten years was from the kind of schoo] from which ae i ust about right and that it was, therefore. come. Therefore, do not Jet us tatk to - ceaners PAbsd ew Just about time to look at the effect. As much about the effect of democratisatic fon Pee omer os the Foreign Secretary reminded us, this on the Foreign Office. ¥ do not thin! a ae ade j was. afier all. a Coalition reform. Again, ‘here has been any democratisatior — . wie ee [4 - 4 we are looking at the matter as a Council and if there had been, F am not sure tha ‘ese. a ee of State and not as parties. 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