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Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized WELCOME TO NEW STAFF - JANUARY (Seated L to R): Jennifer Homer. Department of Technical Operations. from Eastbourne. England; and Marlyn Smee. E.D.l•• from Vancouver. (Standing L to R): Helen Moore. Technical Assistance and Planning Stall. from Alexandria; Catherine Cooper. Eevnomic Stall. from Westfield. N.J.; Marion Peters. I.F.C•• from London; and Marie-Therese Clare. Administration Department, from Dublin. Vol. 15 No.3 INTERNATIONAL BANK NOlES March 1961 Published monthly by the Personnel Division, International Balik for Reconstruction and Development, Washington 25, D.C. CONTENTS Page The New Year Honours ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 3 St. Patrick and the City of Armagh......................... 6 The World Bank in Kenya..................................... 9 What number did you call please?......................... 12 BANK NOTES REPORTERS Office 0/ the President Joyce Johnston Legal Department Verna Via Europe, A/rica and Office 0/ In/ormation Joanna Slusarski Australasia Ann Geanacou Treasurer's Department Lillian Cardash Far East Carol Baber Executive Directors Rida Armbrust South Asia and Middle East Ursula Zieschang I.F.e. Valerie Rowles Western Hemisphere Mae McNeal E.D.I. Myrtle Higgins Technical Operations Ann Fernandez Administration Economic StaR Cecile Lim Personnel Bridget Langfield Technical Assistance and Premier Building Diana Drowley Planning Frances Haughey 8th Floor Jeanne McLennan Office 0/ the Secretary Hazel Fleming Office Services Rho",a Kelly 801 19th Street Anna Koukoula 2 -~~ THE NEW YEAR HONOURS • KNIGHTS BACHELOR .......... D..IFF, WIl.l.IAM ANGUS BOYD Vice-Pre­ sident. International Bank rorJ Recon­ struction and Development................ his announcement, which ap­ aircraft artillery. After the evac­ peared in the London ClTimes" and uation from Dunkirk, he was other newspapers on December 31, called back to Northern Ireland to 1960, must have delighted everyone become Pennanent Secretary of the in the Bank, and particularly those Ministry of Public Security. Between who worked closely with Mr. Iliff 1941 and 1948 he filled a succession during the eight years of the Indus of important posts outside Great negotiations which, after repeated Britain: first in Teheran, where frustrations and threats of collapse, he was Financial Counselor at the came to fruition in Karachi last British Legation; then in Burma, September. We all join in con­ as Financial Adviser to the Gover­ gratulating him. nor; and finally before joining This honour, officially bestowed IBRD, he was U. K. Treasury on February 7, rewards many years Representative in the Middle East, of public service both national stationed in Cairo. His first assign­ and international. Sir William had ment in the Bank was Director of a distinguished career before he the Loan Department. Three years joined our staff in 1948. He saw later he was made Assistant to the World War I service in India, President and in July 1956 he Mesopotamia, Iran and South Russia; became a Vice President. then in 1922 he joined the Northern Sir William, well-known in the Ireland Civil Service and became Bank for his analytical mind, his Assistant Secretary, Ministry of quick answers and whimsical Labor in 1935. The outbreak of humour is also well-known for his the Second World War put him back dedication to precise and simple into uniform, this time in France English. In 1952 he entertained in command of a battery of anti- and prodded the professional staff 3 Sir William with MOfarji R. Desai. Indian Minister 0/ Finance ([e/t). and Mohamed Shoaib. Finance Minister 0/ Pakistan (right), photographed during the 1960 Annual Meeting. with a lecture on writing which he were present to observe the in­ called ItGobbledygook," copies vestiture proceedings in the Throne of which are still read and circu­ Room of Buckingham Palace in lated to remind Bank writers that London. Sir William was "dubbed" the simple style is best. knight by Queen Elizabeth the The "London Times" of Septem­ Queen Mother in the absence of ber 12, 1960, in a profile of Sir Queen Elizabeth II who was, William, described him as !tan fittingly enough, paying her first exemplar of the British Civil Ser­ royal visit to India and Pakistan. vice,...•a modest and gentle man, The Knighthood ceremony has with a capacity to relax. Over an been simplified a good deal since evening's bridge, which he plays the Middle Ages, the traditional inordinately well, or in a chance days of chivalry when the prospec­ meeting at some Washington func­ tive knight was expected to spend tion, one would never divine the a night or so on his knees in prayer scope and complexity of his pre­ beforehand. The actual knighting occupation; but his associates was accompanied by elaborate say that without the patience of religious ceremonies and a long Job and nerves of steel, and his ritual during which the knight was sheer refusal to let go, the Indus successively presented with his negotiations must have exploded robes, arms, spurs and so forth. years ago, with all the risks of By the time of Queen Elizabeth war between the two parties." the First, however, the ceremony These qualities make us all grate­ of the accolade had been reduced ful for the honour that has come nearly to its present-day fonn; the to him. would-be knight knelt before his Lady Iliff and young son John sovereign, who tapped him lightly 4 on each shoulder with the flat of being that the service is no longer a swordblade, saying (in medieval almost exclusively military. The French) ftSoys chevalier, Saint title ftKnight Bachelor" has nothing George" and then, commanding him, to do with marriage. It is a sur­ ttAvencez!" The invocation to vival of the order of command in St. George has now disappeared medieval armies. Overall command and ftAvencez"has become ftRise!", was exercised by the king, through but the general picture today is his constable and marshals. The much the same. divisional commanders,so to speak, Knighthoods are not bestowed were the greater nobility and the lightly. The twice-yearly Honours so-called ftknights banneret," List (one published at the New whose rank was indicated by a Year and the other in June) are square banner flown from their long, often including many hun­ lance-tips. The smaller fighting dreds of names, but Sir William's fonnations were commanded by the name appeared in the 1961 New knights bachelor, flying long pointed Year Honours as one of only 31 or forked pennons from their lances. new knights. The other 30 had Occasionally a knigh t bachelor distinguished themselves in a wide who had distinguished himself, or variety of fields; the list included who had accumulated enough wealth businessmen, politicians, govern­ to mark him for promotion, would ment servants, a judge, four pro­ petition to become a knight ban­ fessors and a theatrical producer. neret, and ifhis request was granted Unlike a baronet (who is addressed would have his pennon ceremonially in the same way) a knight cannot chopped short to signify the change. pass his title to his son or other Whether or not he has equipped descendents. All knights, in fact, himself with a pennon, our Vice earn the honour by their own exer­ President's chances of becoming tions. Just as in the Middle Ages, knight banneret seem slim. The the dignity of knighthood was last three were created by the awarded by the sovereign in recog­ Lord Protector Somerset on the nition of outstanding service, the field of the Battle of Pinkie in difference between then and now 1547. Sir William and Lady Iliff. lesser site for his first church and, When March comes around each although nothing remains of it year I always think it worthwhile today, it may be of interest to to pause for a moment or two with know that a branch of the Bank a thought upon which the Irish, of Ireland now occupies the ground. North, South, East and West, are I might add, without wishing to do unanimous - PATRICK IS OUR battle with those from County Down PATRON SAINT. If, as an who claim that St. Patrick is buried Armachian, I take special pride in in Downpatrick, that Armachians the good man, it is not without believe that not only the Sain t cause; after all, he had a hand in but also his sister are buried at the planning of my home town and the site of the ftfirst church." established it as the ecclesiastical Need I tell you St. Patrick even­ capital of the country. Today we tually converted Daire and got the perpetuate his memory, not only commanding site? The story goes in our hearts, but with two cathe­ that on the night he received the drals, both caned after him and gift, St. Patrick had a vision in locally referred to as !told" and which the angel Victor showed ftnew," mainly because their building him how the lands he had been was separated by about thirteen given should be laid out. (It wasn't centuries. until 1944 that the City Fathers History books vary as to where got around to appointing another St. Patrick was born and how he came to Ireland. For what it is St. Patrick"s Roman Catholic Cathedral. worth, my story is that he was born in Scotland, kidnapped by the Gauls or their second cousins, and, in his escape from them, was ship­ wrecked on the shores of the Em­ erald Isle. There seems to be no doubt, however, that St. Patrick arrived 10 Ard Macha (Annagh) about 444 a.d. and immediately approached the local chieftain, a pagan by the name of Daire, to ask for the most commanding site in the city on which to build his church.

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