The Commons
The House was advised that $892,960 was the cost in 1936 of the British Secret Service. This was "less than had been expected," and the ever-efficient Secret Service, far from having overrun its budget as Government departments are inclined to do, reported a tidy little surplus of $7,035. In so far as any British public man has to carry off the honors of being called ''head of John Bull's Secret Service" by such careful newsorgans as Manhattan's Herald Tribune, this duty is discharged by Sir Robert Gilbert Van-ittart, brilliant permanent...
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