Now, now, Class, we mustn't make fun

     












There are lights
in which none of
us is at our best.

   Stuart Hampshire observed that S.I.S.

   values information in proportion to

   its secrecy, not to its accuracy. They

   would attach more value, he said, to a

   scrap of third-rate and tendentious mis-

   information smuggled out of Sofia in the

   fly-buttons of a vagabond Rumanian pimp

   than to any intelligence deduced from a

   prudent reading of the foreign press.

   And of course he's quite right.

Hugh Trevor-Roper

Major, S.I.S.

Regius Professor, Oxford

Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge

Lord Dacre of Glanton

The Wartime Journals

April, 1943

op. cit.