Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
deputy-chairman. Teixeira, as the head of the Intelligence Section, controlled the supply of advice on the export of "prohibited commodities" to neutral countries; as a member of the Advisory Board, he came later to share in responsibility for the department as a whole. Among his colleagues, not already named, were "Freddie" Browning, the first organizer of the department, O. R. A. Simpkin, now Public Trustee, H. B. Betterton, now a member of parliment, Michael Sadleir, the novelist, R. S. Rait, the Scottish Historiographer-Royal, John Palmer, the dramatic critic, and G. L. Bickersteth, the translator of Carducci.
When the department came to an end, Teixeira resumed his interrupted task of translation, which had, indeed, never been wholly abandoned; his daily programme during the war was to work at home from 5.0 a. m. till 8.0 a. m. and in his department from 5.0 a. m. till 6.0 p. m. or 7.0 p. m., then to play bridge for an hour at the Cleveland Club, returning home in time for a light dinner and an early bed.[1]
- ↑ Even in Teixeria's wide reading there were occasional gaps;
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