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...strength has been sapped by internal bickering and by the loss of many of its ablest men (Gaitskell, Sir Stafford Cripps, Ernest Bevin, Aneurin Bevan). The feuding has faded, and Labor finds itself in the best shape in years to topple the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. A Gallup poll last week indicated that Labor had a 15½% lead over the Conservatives, the lowest the Tories have been in eleven years in power...
Diefenbaker is overestimating opposition in Canada to the use of nuclear weapons, Dupre said. Most Canadians realize that Canada would be involved in any nuclear war, and are therefore willing to try for the maximum deterrent. Several Gallup polls have indicated that opponents of nuclear armament are outnumbered by as much...
...Suede Shoe Act. Politically, though a Daily Telegraph Gallup poll last week gave the Labor Party a record 13% lead over the Tories, the Common Market, and Macmillan's appeal to "work together," were the kind of things that traditionally rallied Britons behind their government. As if to demonstrate his composure, the Prime Minister showed up for a grueling House of Commons debate on the Nassau pact wearing a jauntily informal tweed suit and suede shoes. To Opposition cries that Britain cannot afford to replace its bomber force with a fleet of Polaris-armed nuclear submarines (estimated cost...
Youth's rebellious mood was measured by a Daily Telegraph Gallup poll, which reported recently that 45% of the under-25 generation would leave Britain if they could. To the government's dismay, 3,300 highly trained scientists and engineers migrated to the U.S. between 1957 and 1961; 250 Ph.D.s, whose training cost the nation $28,000 each, go each year...
Hard times have fallen on Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and his Conservative Party since last June's election. Though the Canadian economy has staged a remarkable comeback, Diefenbaker and his minority government have remained unpopular. With growing talk of a spring election, the latest Canadian Gallup poll shows Lester Pearson's Liberals with a commanding 47% of those polled, up 10% since June, while Diefenbaker's Conservatives are down to 32%, a new low. The Prime Minister's personal popularity has fallen to the point where 45% had a lower opinion...