Theoretical concepts made up the main part of Rudi Mercer"s life that was devoted to the cause of American security, conducted from various bunkers around the world; but his all-time favourite was in Regent"s Park London, beneath Winfield House, sold to the American nation by Barbara Hutton for one dollar at the end of the Second World War. As heir to the Woolworth Winfield empire, she could afford such charity. When in 1955 the Ambassador to the Court of St James took up residence he, and those that followed, praised her bigheartedness. They strolled around the private garden before being ushered, on yet another practise drill, into the nuclear war protection level, five hundred foot below those manicured grounds.
Rudi, on the other hand, could ill-afford philanthropy in his daily dealin
