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| == Stuff from the book to eventually put in the article or into the [[Colonel Charles Russell]] article == | | == Stuff from the book to eventually put in the article or into the [[Colonel Charles Russell]] article == |
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| Russell has said he will retire in six months. No one in his department really qualified to succeed him. the Home Secretary (who IS a Minister), Gabriel Palliser, says that Russell "was something special. He had it both ways: he ran the machine, and ran it beautifully -- the files, the dossiers, the interminable cross-checking. All that is essential, it's nine-tenths of the job, and it wouldn't be difficult to find a man to carry it. But it's the other tenth, nowadays, that counts in the pinches, and for that Russell had a flair. A nose. He smelt things...Colonel Russell is... something exceptional. He has a nose for the suspect but he detests suspicion; he's a humanist, a liberal in the oldest, best sense... you can't trust many when it comes to that sort of power." pages 12-13
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| Russell's room: untidyness; Benares brass and silver trophies; excellent Persian rugs; admirably attended mustache; soldierly but slightly donnish == page 34
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| Still smokes a pipe (54) and cigarettes when offered (60): champagne didn't agree with him... but he seldom declined it -- page 54
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| Says he's "an indifferent bridge player" (61)
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| has sherry and biscuits for lunch when too busy to go out (63)
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| "He was a churchgoer by mild conviction, but not a moralist." His vicar is a High Churchman. (64)
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