FOREIGN OFFICE NO LONGER HOME FOR “BLUE-BLOODS"
Recd. 10 p.m. London, Oct. 3. Of lhe first 47 candidates who passed the recent British Foreign Office Service Examinations, 32 came from different schools and 17 from Government grant aided schools. This, it is claimed, is an indication that the public school monopoly of staffing of the Foreign Office has been broken, by the new regulations which are intended to make entry into the service easier for men with good service records, but who lack the academic qualifications formerly demanded. Many candidates accepted at examinations came from the services. One won the D.S.O. and D.S.C. as a submarine commander, another won the M.C. and bar in Italy and another escaped from a prisoner of war camp in Poland and lived 14 months behind the enemy lines before recapture. The new system of examination closely follows that adopted by Army Officer Selection Board. One in every 10 of the first list of candidates passed.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WC19461004.2.56
Bibliographic details
Wanganui Chronicle, 4 October 1946, Page 5
Word Count
161FOREIGN OFFICE NO LONGER HOME FOR “BLUE-BLOODS" Wanganui Chronicle, 4 October 1946, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Wanganui Chronicle. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.