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...like a dream, that the next name in the lists after Harold Macmillan, Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath is Margaret Thatcher." With those uncharacteristically emotional words, the coolly competent M.P. for Finchley accepted her triumph as the first woman ever to head a political party in Britain. Winning seven votes more than the mandatory majority of 139, Mrs. Thatcher, who had toppled former Prime Minister Edward Heath from his ten-year reign as Conservative Party chief the week before, soundly defeated a formidable array of four male challengers. Her leading opponent, Party Chairman William Whitelaw, drew only...
...scrutiny that Mrs. Thatcher can expect to receive from her own party will hardly compare to the dressing-down Labor will try to inflict upon her as leader of the opposition. Perhaps exhausted by the tension of the past two weeks, she seemed unprepared to deal with Prime Minister Harold Wilson's irrepressible gamesmanship in their first parliamentary encounter. Admitting a "deep gulf between her and me in political philosophy," Wilson said that he nevertheless "looked forward to the informality and, if I may say so, the intimacy of our meetings behind [the House Speaker's] chair...
...nice to see you again," said British Prime Minister Harold Wilson to Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, when they met in the Kremlin last week. "Have you been resting?" Brezhnev brushed off the loaded question with a wave of the hand. "I'll explain about that later." As if to dispel reports that he had been stricken with pneumonia and a variety of other respiratory ailments, the Soviet leader nonchalantly lit a cigarette. "One of my faults," he conceded...
Every weekend during the six years that he held various jobs in the 1960s Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Richard Crossman would retire to his 17th century country house near Oxford and dictate the week's experiences into a tape recorder. Nothing remarkable about that. Memoir writing -and now taping-is a well-developed art, and Wilson himself had published his bland prime ministerial recollections...
This time the expected did not happen, because Sunday Times Editor Harold Evans saw in the Crossman diaries an opportunity to publish an important document and frustrate censorship at the same time. The diaries are indeed uncharitable: they depict Wilson making major policy decisions without informing the Cabinet, the Queen showing more interest in discussing her Corgi dogs than affairs of state, civil servants hiding important documents from Grossman. But they spill few state or industrial secrets; so prosecution under the Official Secrets Acts or on other grounds would be difficult. Besides, during last year's election campaign Wilson...