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Like a Spaniel. During the British election campaign two months ago, De Gaulle offhandedly suggested that Britain might now be welcome in the EEC. When Tory Leader Ted Heath immediately challenged Wilson to respond, the Labor Prime Minister cuttingly retorted: "One encouraging gesture from the French government and the Conservative leader rolls on his back like a spaniel." But scarcely a week after his reelection, Wilson revised his Cabinet to give two ministers, George Brown and George Thomson, special responsibility for paving a road toward Brussels. They soon were dropping hints all over Europe that Labor wanted in, and fortnight...
Lord Harlech, formerly David Ormsby-Gore, comes to the Vietnam issue with rare credentials. A good friend of President Kennedy, he was ambassador to Washington throughout the New Frontier. Now, as deputy leader of the House of Lords, he is one of Ted Heath's "new men." Newsweek calls him "the Tory to watch," predicting that he will head the Foreign Office if and when the Conservatives are elected. He has had experience in the Far East, and advised JFK as well as his own government on the Laotian muddle. As a veteran disarmament negotiator and UN delegate...
...Dull & Stale." Tory Leader Ted Heath was quick to pounce on Wilson's program. "Dull and stale and very uninspired" were his words in the opening debate on the Queen's Speech. To prepare for the wrangles to come, Heath trimmed his shadow Cabinet from 22 to 17 members, scrapping the last vestiges of ex-Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home's influence. Out to the back benches went former Ministers Duncan Sandys (Commonwealth and Colonies), Ernest Marples (Transport), Selwyn Lloyd (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and two others. Lloyd will aid Heath in reorganizing the Conservative Party...
Significantly, Heath retained Reginald Maudling as Deputy Opposition Leader and added to his stock by giving him the Commonwealth and Colonies shadow portfolio. That gives Maudling responsibility for Rhodesia-a fulcrum that any oppositionist should be able to wield to advantage. If Heath and Maudling together can put the full weight of Tory leadership into the opposition, Wilson's plump majority could be thinned in ensuing by-elections. If not, Heath might well be supplanted by Maudling as the Conservatives' leader...
...Fool informed King Lear on the heath: "Prithee, nuncle, be contented; 'tis a naughty night to swim in. Now a little fire . . ." Russia's new Lear, Nilcita Khrushchev, passed his 72nd birthday on the heath outside his dacha near Moscow. His family held a pleasant little party all right, but alack, the palace-controlled Soviet press had neither poetry nor prose to mark the event. To them, the king is dead. And when the old dictator lit a bonfire to celebrate, the heavens opened and the rains doused Nikita's flame...