Brooke, Lord

Normally the role of officials was to ensure that decisions were taken by ministers in an orderly way, but inevitably officials briefs drew ministers attention to discrepancies in expert advice, and some officials, of whom Brook was one, and his successor as Cabinet Secretary, Sir Burke Trend, another, could be influential advisers on their own account. Brook had acquired considerable influence over Churchill and became accustomed to putting forward his own opinions in the briefs that he prepared for prime ministers. On the other hand he was unable to dissuade Eden from what he (Brook) considered to be the folly of the Suez operation. Trend was said by Lord Rothschild in 1970 to be one of the two men who ran the country, the other being Sir William Armstrong, the permanent secretary of the Treasury. Trend was a great believer in the Anglo-American special relationship, and this is reflected in the advice that he gave Harold Wilson, of whom he was a close confidant. ... 

Price, D.M., Brooke, B.P. Woodroffe, C.D. (2001) Thermoluminescence dating of eolianites from Lord Howe Island and south-west Western Australia. Quaternary Science Reviews 20, 841-846. 

This, however, still leaves many options. Stories about children often lend themselves to the moral tale. They also lend themselves to excess and fantasy. A good example here is Peter Brook s Lord of the Flies. Novels such as Orwell s Animal Farm have their filmic equivalent in George Miller s Babe in the City. Stories about animals, such as the above mentioned, are naturals for hyperdrama. So too are stories set as fables. Even a film like Warren Beatty s Heaven Can Wait becomes hyperdrama when issues of birth, rebirth, angels, and Heaven become active elements of the narrative. Finally, stories about mythical figures or periods, such as Vincent Ward s The Navigator, work well as hyperdrama. In these stories, the characters are either archetypal or they are metaphors serving the moral tale that is at the heart of the narrative. 

In England such peers as Lord Saye and Seal, and Lord Brooke in Soodand the coven-anting Lords. Overton is describing splits in the ruling classes of the two nations who shared the same king. 

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