Word: servant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the House of Commons got its first detailed report on the effects of these measures from Minister of Economic Warfare Ronald Hibbert Cross. Tall, fair-haired, direct, pleasant, incisive, 43, a merchant-banker and civil servant of the conservative Eton-Army-business pattern, Ronald Cross is considered one of the most promising of the Government's younger supporters. Politically brash, he nevertheless once thoughtfully sent flowers to an ill and defeated opponent. His present job is to see that the enemy gets no flowers until its funeral...
...that time the sands of peace had almost run out. The Prime Minister, with his faithful civil servant Sir Horace Wilson as economic adviser, set out to direct foreign policy along the lines he had chosen when he parted with Anthony Eden. To carry out that policy he had to have a man who had the sympathy and respect of both friends and foes of appeasement...
...till peace finally collapsed, Viscount Halifax occupied a unique place as Foreign Secretary. Even at the time of Munich he had the sympathy and respect of such men as (appeaser) Sir John Simon and (vigorous anti-appeaser) Winston Churchill. To all of them he was a sort of civil servant of the highest order. Winston Churchill recently called him "a gentleman, a fox hunter, a friend...
...Diplomacy. His servant calls the Foreign Secretary at 7 in the morning but he does not breakfast until 8:45, for like his father he goes to church before breakfast. From 9:30 in the morning till 11:30 at night he is occupied at home, at the Foreign Office, across the street at the Prime Minister's (No. 10 Downing Street) or in the House of Lords. He allows himself only about an hour out for lunch and the same amount of time for dinner. The rest of his day is work. It is no life...
...first time in some 60 years, white-polled, popular, old (70-odd) Negro Harry Parker, grandson of George Washington's body servant, longtime (48 years) messenger for the House Ways & Means Committee was absent from the opening of Congress. What kept him away was the misery in his back. Said Harry Parker sadly: "The Lord has took me up the big hill for 60-odd years, but now He's put on my brakes and it ain't for me to complain...