§ Mr. F. Noel-Bakerasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what instructions the British representative on the Membership Advisory Sub-Committee of 279W the Security Council has received with regard to the admission of Portugal to the United Nations.
§ Mr. MayhewThe United Kingdom Representative on the Security Council was instructed to support Portugal's application for admission to the United Nations. Portugal's admission was supported by all the Permanent Members of the Security Council, except the Soviet representative, whose adverse vote, which prevented the Security Council from recommending Portugal's admission, was given on the sole ground that Portugal was not in diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union.
— (i) Foreign Service only. (ii) Foreign Service and Home Civil Service together.* (a) In 1945. (b) In 1946 up to date. (a) In 1945. (b) In 1946 up to date. (1) Number of eligible candidates who sent in applications 526 984 353 1,212 (2) Number examined 298 393 84 319 (3) Number successful 38 22 12 19 * (With the Foreign Service is their first choice. Successful candidates who applied for both Services but put the Home Civil Service as their first choice were of course assigned to the Home Civil Service.
Candidates who fail to qualify in the written part of the examination are informed in about six to eight weeks after the examination. Those who qualify are summoned to the personality tests at the Civil Service Selection Board, and to interview before the Final Selection Board at Burlington Gardens, at the rate of 48 a week, with an interval of a fortnight, on an average, between the two tests. These tests begin some seven to eight weeks after the Written Examination and continue for three to four months, according to the number of candidates who qualify. All candidates are notified of the final result within three weeks of their appearance at the Final Selection Board. The length of time that qualified candidates have to wait before they hear the final result depends on whether they are summoned to the Civil Service Selection Board early or late in the course of the examination. There are three examinations a year. At alternate examinations candidates for the Foreign Service alone are summoned first and candidates for the