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a wen Ah Te Ste BY ce pect gent FE PRP LT EE: wag Lo a ONE toy BATE, CEE ee ae eye ts mee Oe ae SEEN BS qeoranmercmanes ene a ee De eet tater re aT alia fine! = " oe _ : SNe Pet tee i . j ° wet a A Res oe 5 eb. i Ag teeth oe Ca Be 2 TE eee ee pot ee ree ote {es 360$ Former Porelgn Office’ 4 NOVEMBER 1955 Officials —Dflappeardncs 1606f “~" hon. Member for Coventry, East (Mr> not go abroad, ‘a Diplomatic’ Service Crossman) spoke: +" +0"... +: which operated entirely abroad, a Con? Perhaps the purposes or the confext of sulas, Service again abroad and a Com-': «. those relorms are not yet entirely under- mercial Service yet something else, That“: ae stood. What happened was thai before scemca utterly the in these moderd># 1919 there was a Forcign Office in times and that the thing to do was to. 5... London and a Diplomatic Service, entirely bring all four Services together and to. _ Separate. In that year they were brought’ Make it possible for members of att fours. ¢.s-~ + together, Before they were brought to. © move from one fo the other according’ * ~~ gether, it ep pe fairly said that they had’ to where they were best fitted to go. n: rae a certain fairly close affiliation with the. -- am auite’es.. ice eit entaad thot tes: of the Cieil Sevine I am quite sure that that conception ! } Mey a a ne — _ They were as ig still the right one and that it is right” #7" part of the Civil Service before the two for someone ia the Consular Service, net rm - joined together. Then in 1943 we added shows the particular quality, to become? 4°"" to those two organisations—the Foreign an ambassador, as some have in- recent? #2: Office as it then was and the Diplomatic ears, or for someone in Grade A of the} “airs + e—two numerically very - farge cign Service, who “ton organisations, the Consular and Commer- orcign, Se who did & good “con-*. cia] and Diplomatic, We made the whole bere roe of te aby hearning ae into one single BOTW Ae «DT eee mercial matters than he would otherwiset ant or two hon. Members in the de. be able to do. es tise 2, The eh vee we dave suggesied that that was not a? ty ti on eadete nu thi sled 7” very good plan and that we should go! Horetore,, he Strong advice Pad ‘the, Loe back to considering putting the Foreign Use O0 ae at Snot to touch theses ....-<- Civil Service. Frankly, I think that that By is absolutely unworkable, and E should ° work out. J do not want new anything: ~ cape like to tell the House why. The first 35 the nature of @ formal review of how, | ..7*%": reason ig that members of this amaf. ¢s¢ changes—some of which have only, gamaied Foreign Service . undertook D&en in force for a very few years—are,s ee thereby to accept service either at home. §9 fact. working out, But that does nof: mers or abroad, That is something which can- Prevent us from taking say action wer" not be asked of anybody who is in the think fit at any time to make adjustments; «. Civil Service today. fe fact, at the 28 they seem necessary as these seformg, ~*~ Moment in the Foreian Office thece are devel | i h b Be Menke fers [~3 *z7 aes uae: teh nd ad I ecb beasts _— ~ . tarce abroad to one al home. The far "I say frankly that ¥ dee pegrettand-aacr° Proportion is still overseas, So an 4 ply reeret—and E + g ' i f i » eer = ee bee ee ety sew JCala-—~are,t aati “ 4 ¥ ques 1 know that the whole House does—that’ thier o ion of merging them with the for Mr. Bevin is not now here to take pat! ee, more closely must be ruled out. jn this debate tonight. 1 am revealing? -*=*":*° As a matter of fact, there aré very con.’ othing which is not known to mag eased siderable temporary exchanges—and that; people. whea I say that owe had many. wage is all to the exchanges with the discussions on this question of reforms- °" Commonwealth Relations Office, with the When Mr. Bevin succeeded me at ther ~<-*-~ rd of Trade and with the Ministry of Foreign Office { believe that they musti “dates ety Labour. Those are al! helpful and, over b€ given a fu triat. When that has been f <7" " " ” and above that, today individuals do done. and, if the House is not satisfied | Soe: sometimes transfer from the Foreign’ with their working, then by all means. ee: Office 10 other- Departments, ‘or vice let us have a review, bul I do not waat: *"~ versa. That bas been going on ever ¢ince’ to have that review now after such -al 4. TH Arms mare a amet Me TOIOTRS Were instituted. Tam frankly. short spell of experiment? oe hapa cette 2 believer in those reforms—naturally—? ‘cen sc gs! me a he eos and ¥ think that they ase having their’ J will bow deal with fome of the. a Rs efect on the working of the Foreign Westions which have been asked about™.jcsm.-- 0 Service, <r tte OF ME Foreig aclean, and to which the right: ho: --- re “oo fytre ee Member for Blyth added, My "3 When ¥ asked the Cabinet Le aE Rae earn garryy nm anat tome it * as se ave Sted. GiA eo to approve gallant Friend the Member for Perth and: -# ee. those reforms, my main concern then was East Perthshire (Colonel Gomme-Duncan)? ©0577 | to prevent the continuation of the Foreign asked whether there were any reports on‘ “8: 2-0 rvice in its vasious Departments, to Maclean. Yes, most certainly there were? “*-<* Prevent having a Foreign Office that did’ and they Were uniformly good until: - —--¢--56- fet ore eT ee Te tam . 2 wesw os “paling Arearees ee Oe aha ‘ce oe re MEP RE