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« are egal. . Garter, by simple and, natural means, helped to create the: * ff ling that it was wrong to. inquire too closely into the whole © © affair, and especially to question Mrs, Maclean. Et has t ed ; ' o&t that she (not the popular press) was wrong.. °°. #37 - The spread of the ‘Establishment'’s’ influence is due partly to’ * thei increase in the number of official and semi-official bodies— ' IT regard the patronage exerted by bodies such as the Arts ' suspicion, especially because it is becoming increasingly difficult for young writers and artists to cock a snook at them— and partly to the apparent diminution in the formal powers of - the ‘Establishment’ which has made people less suspicious of | the actual power and influence which its members exercise. It. _ is Mr, Randolph Churchill’s letter which interests me. (Mr, - Connell, if he wishes to understand the genius of the ‘Estab-". h’ not his faith in the present methods of recruitment. But even if. k ._ lishment,’ need go no farther than read the cry of pain which 4s ultered in a leading article on the Burgess-Maclean affair | ah ine contemporary two weeks ago.) Mr, Churchill spends mapt °. of his time conducting assaults on the ‘Establishment.’ o .Mr. A. L. Rowse and the circus will be complete. “reason why, j in this specific case, he has Tallied to the. ‘Estab, lishment’s’ side would, I think, provide a clue to its nature. F . (In any case, I never suggested that Lady Violet Bonha Carter had had any contact with Lord Beaverbrook, or that ., fast \ Dave thee? any pressure she brought to bear was successful.) But another: clue was provided by Mr. Sparrow, the Warden of All Souls’, - . in his letter which was published last week. As Sir Robert’ * Council, the BBC, the British Council and so on with extreme © Boothby has pointed out this week, that letter confirmed most ° of what I said. All Souls’ is one of the centres of the ‘Establish- . ment." All that is needed now is a piece of homely piety fom tye There is, however, one factual answer I would like to give to Mr. Sparrow. I was careful to say in my piece two weeks ago | . that it is the traditions as well as the methods of recruitment °; of the Foreign Office which determine its character, I have : “ Thad, I would still answer that it is what happens to the yo 1g | “men once they get inside, the Foreign Service: which [is important. >‘ ' . .