Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1930-08-08
BY MILTON
NEA Service Writer

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that big sums Of money can't
tempt and that promised literary
fame won't tempt-that's the way
sir Maurice Hankey is known in
the offices Of the clever gentlemen
whose Job IL Is to get best sellers
written
BY dangling fat check books in
front OF their eyes, the book pub
fishers Of America, Germany, Eng
land and France have been able to
get the World war story and the
peace story of nearly every ia
nous soldier and statesman. All
except Hankey. He ziS adamant. He
will probably never write his story.
And If he ever does. he will pro-
baby stipulate that it shall not be
published until a hundred years
after his death.
For Hankey knows more big Sc
crets than any living man. This
little military chap. who looks so
unmilitary. has packed away in his
diaries and note books and
documents, and also In his clever
clever brain. more inside stuff
than any dozen men who have
given their memoirs to the w Id
He has been custodian 10 the low
down stuff" OF cabinets and con-
ferences and commissions for SO
long that people forget that he
ever did anything else.
He was born in 1877. educated
at Rugby. and went into the Roy
al Marine Artillery In 1895 when
ne was only 10. At % he was a
Captain and when he finally and
definitely retired from that body
in 1908 it was with the rank Of
lieutenant colonel.
Quick Rise TO Fame
In the meantime. the govern
ment had already found he was an
ideal man for all kinds Of jobs and
so all kinds OF jobs were en-
him. From 1899 to 1901 he served
on the Families. flagship C. the
fleet. The former artillerymar
showed so quick a grasp Of n al
matters that from 1902 10 1906 he
attached to the Naval Intel
ligence Department. IN 1907 he was
made Naval Intelligence Officer
with the Mediterranean fleet. In
1908 he was given a tremendous
boost, being made assistant secretary
OF the Committee on Imperial De-
Tense. the body charged With
organizing all the war defenses of
the British empire. In four years
time he made himself so ~indispens-
able that he was made secretary
OF that body.
When the World War broke out
and England faced the greatest
crisis Of its history, a special War
Cabinet inside the regular cabinet
was formed. It va necessary TO
have a secretary and the whole
government turned with one ac-
to Hankev. In the following
year, when the Imperial War Cab
met was formed. Hankey was once
more secretary. He knew SO much
about the dcfenSes OF the empire
ne was SO quickly receptive OF new
IDEAS and he originated so many
II his own that nobody else was
OF for the job. When the
inventors OF the tank were fight
ng army and red tape 20 get the
Machine adopted. 1t was Hankey
Who largely won their battle for
hem.
When the cabinet had any spe-
'ial little job to do they called In
iankey. They all remembered
What Lord Fisher, the famous First
Sea Lord Of the Admiralty, had
NICE said of him:
He is a little fellow with a
forehead crammed with
)rains created by God for the dis
'omfiture Of the German kaiser"
Called British Colonel House"
After a while other people gave
other appelations. Some
him the British Colonel
House, because OF the implicit faith
he wartime Premier, Lloyd
George. had in him. Others said
Re was the real ruler Of the coun-
~. One of his jobs was to tell
he country what the war cabinet
lad decided. So nobody was sur
'rised when he was knighted in
GIG. The only surprise was that
e did not get a higher honor.
When the statesmen and gen.
rails met at Versailles to draft
he peace treaty. Sir Maurice was
tight there. III charge Of the Brit
secretariat and right-hand man
: Lloyd George. The tigerish old
'rench Premier. Georges Cleamen-
eau conceived a tremendous adj
liration for him. When the Big
'hree-President Wilson. LLOYD
and Clemenceau- were dis
lssing some important point and
some particular document
, refer to. the Tiger would turn
} Sir Maurice and say: