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"Reputed to be Room 40's most brilliant member, 'Dilly' Knox was the second of four remarkable sons of the Bishop of Manchester. [...] Dilly had established himself as leading King's eccentric and prominent supporter of his friend, the great economist Maynard Keynes's campaign against the Bursar. [...] Knox did some of his best work for Room 40 lying in a bath in Room 53, claiming that codes were more easily cracked in an atmosphere of soap and steam.{76} [...]

Ewing also recruited a series of other academics, mostly classicists and German linguists, from Cambridge and other universities. They included, in addition to Knox [... t]he Old Etonian King's historian Frank Birch [...] Birch was a brilliant conversationalist and comic actor who later appeared in pantomime at the London Palladium and wrote a comic history of Room 40, Alice in ID25, which included a celebration by Knox of his bathtime brainwaves:

The sailor of room 53

Has never, is true, been to sea

But though not in a boat

He too served a float -

In a bath at the Admiralty{79}

In the Second World War, Birch and Adcock were to take the lead in recruiting one third of the King's Fellowship to Bletchley Park (including its greatest cryptanalyst, Alan Turing).{80} But for the experience of the contribution made by King's eccentrics to codebreaking in the First World War, it is unlikely that Turing would have been recruited in 1939. [pp. 517-18; note 76 sends to Fitzgerald's Knox Brothers, pp. 90-92, 137, and Andrew's Secret Service, p.94; note 79 sends to the original copy (of Alice in ID25, I presume) in Denniston MSS, CCAC DENN 3/3; note 80 sends to Andrew's Secret Service, pp.452-53]

The underlying problem for Room 40 was the weight - often the deadweight - of naval tradition. [...] Traditionally minded naval officers were bound to look askance at civilians meddling in naval matters. [...] As stories leaked out of Dilly Knox's bathtime brainwaves and the practical jokes played on and by Frank Birch [...] suspicions must surely have deepened and darkened.{105}

According to a memoir by one of the lawyer recruits of Room 40, William F. Clarke:

Admiral Thomas Jackson ... displayed supreme contempt for the work of Room 40. He never came into the room except in two three occasions, on one of which he came to complain that one of the locked boxes in which the information was sent to him cut his hand, and on another to say, at a time when the Germans had introduced a new code book, 'Thank God, I shan't have any more of that damned stuff!'{106}

Not merely was Room 40 not allowed to send intelligence direct to commanders at sea: it was also denied the information it needed to interpret fully the signals it decrypted. Not until Room 40 was fully incorporated into the Naval Intelligence Division (NID) as ID25 in 1917 was it allowed the flagged charts where enemy naval movements were plotted. [p. 524; note 105 sends to Andrew's Secret Service, pp. 101-02; note 106 sends to William Clarke's 40 O.B. and GC & CS 1914 TO 1945, chs. 1, 2 CCAC Clarke MSS CLKE3.] 

"After Lovell had sent him a number of decrypted British dispatches in March 1782, Washington wrote to him:

I thank you for the trouble you have taken in forwarding the intelligence which was inclosed in your letter... It is by comparing a variety of information, we are frequently enabled to investigate facts, which were so intricate or hidden, that no single clue could have led to a knowledge of them[. I]n this point of view, intelligence becomes interesting which but from its connection and collateral circumstances, would not be important.{63}" [p.309; note 63 sends to Durey's William Wickham, Master Spy, ch.3]

"The July Days brought about a change of regime rather than a revolution; the Bourbon dynasty was replaced by that of Orléans, whose head, Louis Philippe, agreed to a more liberal constitution. Charles X and Polignac fell back on conspiracy theory to explain their overthrow, repeatedly claiming that a revolutionary comité directeur had been planning an insurrection and distributing money to workers, manufacturing daggers and acquiring firearms.{74} Tsar Nicholas I became obsessed by similar conspiracy theories, particularly after an uprising in Russian Poland in November took him by surprise [...]

Early in 1831 Nicholas was reduced to a temporary state of panic by reports that the Illuminati, a secret society of small real significance which became subject of grandiose conspiracy theories, had infiltrated the highest circles of the Russian administration, including the Third Section, and was planning to assassinate him.{76} The extent to which Russian intelligence assessment continued to be degraded by conspiracy theory was demonstrated by the Lukovsky case four years later. In 1835 an informant named Lukovsky, probably Polish, arrived in St Petersburg from England and informed the Third Section that a secret Russo-Polish society in England was preparing to overthrow the Russian monarchy by an invasion of Russia which would begin in British India and advance through Persia, Georgia and Astrakhan. Though Lukovsky was unable to identify any of those involved or to provide other details of this preposterous invasion plan, Nicholas I, despite describing the intelligence as 'unclear', ordered it to be followed up. 'In our times', he insisted, 'nothing should be ignored.'{77}" [p.376-77; note 74 sends to Zamoyski's Phantom Terror, p. 361; note 76 Ibid., p.350; note 77 Ibid., ch. 22]

"Let's see, do you believe that without... how can I say? Without lust, would we see many children born? And on a hundred of children that will not see the light of day, perhaps one is born in the end. It's excess that yields to us the bare minimum, isn't that true? [...] Well! Without speculation there would be no business my dear... Why the hell do you think I should come up with my money, I should risk my capital, if you'll not promise me some special bargain, a sudden, sky-opening happiness? ... Left at the well-earned, mediocre fruits of labor, at the prudent balance of everyday transactions, existence would only be a barren desert, a swamp in which every strength would sleep and rot; conjure a dream spark just over the horizon, instead, promise that a cent will yield a hundred, offer all the sleepers the hunt for the impossible, for millions earned in two hours spans, in the company of the craziest of the daring; then yes, the race begins, the energies multiply, the hubbub is so vast that everybody, sweating pleasure, will start making children, for which I mean things alive and great and beautiful... Ah! Goddamn! This world is full of useless rubbish, but it could not exist without." [p.211-12]

"[...] and while she was tying the knots, she happened to think of Mr Saccard, who she knew in Holland, knee deep in an another colossal undertaking, the cleansing of immense swamps, a small kingdom torn from the sea by a complex network of canals. He was right: Money, till now, was the manure from which the humanity of tomorrow germinates; money, the poisoner and bane, fertilized all social shrubs, the necessary soil for all projects easing life. This time, she finally saw that clearly, didn't all her unbreakable hope come from faith in the fruitfulness of toil? My God! Further from all the dirt dug, all the victims, all the horrible suffering coming with all humanity's steps forward, isn't there something dark and far, something superior, good, just, final, toward which we walk without knowing and that fills our heart with the stubborn need to live and hope? 

Miss Caroline was happy nonetheless, with her face still young, white hair-crowned, as a plant again young in an old field. Thinking of the shame that her relationship with Saccard brought to her, she thought of all the dirt that soils love either. Why, then, to blame money of all the crime and dirt it causes? Is love, creator of all life, less dirty?" [p.603-04]

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