Trust and Trustees

In his message welcoming Murilo Portugal, Kim Williams, chairman of the Founders Share Company’s Board, said, “I am sure he will make a fine contribution to our thinking in defending the Principles and ensuring that we act at all times in a way that is consistent with the best ethical practice, ensuring that values core to the successful sustenance of the Principles over the last 80 years are maintained through sensitive, and sustained, vigilance.”

One must trust the new member on assuming his duties will carefully examine the British Army imbroglio during which it appeared to many that the Trust Principles had been carelessly abandoned with no sign of wakefulness by the Trustees, never mind “sensitive, sustained vigilance”. ■