Whitehall to West Indies.
Publisher: Bodley Head
Published: 1952
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Civil service -- Great Britain.; West Indies, British -- Politics and government.
First sentence: IN 1904, THROUGH a competitive examination, I entered the Civil Service as a second division clerk and my first post was in the Science and Art Department of the Board of Education at South Kensington.
Description: In Whitehall to West Indies Frank A. Norman takes readers behind the cloak of anonymity which hides the part played by the higher civil servant in making history. But he was not always able to avoid public notice while in official harness. For he was, by turns, mistaken for the sinister "Professor Skinner," which was the alias adopted by Montagu Norman when, as Governor of the Bank of England, he paid diplomatic visits abroad; warned by a trade union leader that his outspoken expression of his Government's views at an international conference might well spoil his chances of promotion; and dubbed by the Press "the bearded giant of Whitehall". He has also been the subject of a calypso in Trinidad.