A Case in Camera

ngth, but I do not see how that can ever be a properly directed executive strength. There are too many cooks. Taken one at a time, how admirable are its impulses, how just in the ma

tanding; but ten will ever winnow the wind with talk, and a hundred are a me

ike poor Monty Rooke, I might almost as well have stopped in bed till midday. These were the occurrences that I had already dimly foreseen when that photograph of the house in Lennox Street had so

its solicitors were instructing counsel. The plane and parachute people, as I had expected, were investigating scr

ordinary remedy at civil law. The Committees had no authority whatever except to draw up reports for their ow

ectly by the heels would be one under those half-baked Orders that so far were the best th

or an influential Member, safely tucked away in its pocket, and you may invert this if you wish in the sense of an understanding. This is why bright-eyed secretaries, fresh from a dinner-table or a conference that has let them into the very heart of some secret matter, are not supposed to be asked what knowledge they have in their extra-secretarial capacities; and this is what the Man in the Club understands and what

k for a moment before I can remember whether the Scepter people won their case or lost it, and I have only the vaguest idea what the findings of the Accidents Investigation Committees were. For most of these things I have taken Bil

inquiries, was engaged on something enormously more important than the immediate results of an aeroplane crash. He was contributing his mite t