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London provided an opportunity to observe at firsthand the political leaders of Great Britain arguing bitterly against each other in preparation for a national election. On the Conservative side the American business leaders talked with Foreign Secretary Rab Butler, Board of Trade President Edward Heath and Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling; in Labor's camp they interviewed Party Leader Harold Wilson and Deputy George Brown...
...leader, Lord Home, now the commoner Sir Alec Douglass-Home, must restore party unity and erase the Tory image of effete aristocrats trying to preserve as much of the present as possible. To do this Sir Alec has retained Reginald Maudling as Chancellor of the Exchequer and appointed Edward Heath Secretary of State for Industry, Trade, and Regional Development. The youth and energy of these men will supposedly demonstrate that modern conservatism is the party's keynote. But the absence of Macleod and Powell will cast doubt on the progressive bent of the Conservatives until a solid performance can prove...
...whom kept their jobs, Douglas-Home has already set in motion new government programs aimed at deflating Labor's claim to be the only reform party. Forestalling Labor's pledge to install a planning czar to direct the economy, Douglas-Home switched Lord Privy Seal Ted Heath, his able, longtime foreign-policy spokesman in the Commons, to an ambitious new Ministry for Industry, Trade and Regional Development. Armed with a long-awaited committee report urgently recommending educational expansion, the government pledged immediate action to double the number of Britain's universities...
Outwardly at least came the inevitable closing of the ranks. This week Home announced his new Cabinet containing the solid Tories, including Butler (named Foreign Secretary), Hailsham and Maudling (in their old jobs) and Heath (named President of the Board of Trade). Missing: Iain Macleod, co-chairman of the Tory Party, one of the rebels who could not reconcile himself to the way Home was chosen...
...Labor Party is already in full cry. Describing the Tory selection process as viciously undemocratic, the Laborite Daily Mirror wrote: "Butler has been betrayed, Maudling insulted, Macleod ignored, Heath treated with contempt and Hailsham giggled out of court by the jester in hospital." Deriding the Tories' "aristocratic cabal," Harold Wilson last week took aim and declared scornfully: "In this ruthlessly competitive, scientific, technical, industrial age, a week of intrigues has produced a result based on family and hereditary connections. The leader has emerged-an elegant anachronism...