The B.B.C. in the course of the latest general post
of its officials has created so many new offices that it. is hard to decide whether any given person has moved up the ladder , or down. Take Mr. Gladstone Murray, for instance. He ceases to be Director of Information and Publications, and Sir Stephen Tallents—with his remark- able record of service in the Baltic States, Northern Ireland, the Empire Marketing .Board and the Post Office—comes in from .St. Martin's-le-Grand as Director- General of Public Relations. What his precise task will be is not yet clear, but he can be counted on to cary it out with energy and resource. But Mr. Gladstone . Murray has, I believe, in fact moved on to a position of considerably greater responsibility than he held before, for, with the rank of Assistant Controller of Programmes, he will have under his hand all the Talks of every kind, including the News. Both News and Talks are a standing target for critics, and Mr. Murray will not lack gratuitous advice on both how and how not to do it.. But he is not an easy man to deflect from his . chosen path. Speaking generally, while promotion is always welcome to those who get it, there is no excess of peace and security at Broadcasting House.
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