ABSTRACT
The man with the most information to manage was not in fact Arthur Mills, writer and MP, but Herman Merivale-prolific journalist, sometime professor of political economy at Oxford, and permanent undersecretary of state at the Colonial Office and then at the India Office. In turning to the very cultured Merivale, we are more in the world of sweetness and light than we were with Mills, and closer to the real centre of power.
