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...neither a lord, nor a privy, nor a seal," Heath quipped recently. The 900-year-old office, so named because its holder was once custodian of the monarch's private signet, today is a ministry without portfolio used for special assignments...
...Though no Prime Minister in modern times has been a bachelor. Of 43 men who have held the office, 26 (unlike Heath) went to Eton or Harrow; 34, like Heath, went to Oxford...
...Heath's declaration last year was a hopeful echo of Winston Churchill's ringing pleas for European unity in the 1940s-but also a bitter reminder that even Churchill had never brought his people to share his vision...
...charged by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan with the day-to-day burden of bringing about this goal is a lifelong, dedicated European. Blue-eyed, silver-haired Ted Heath, 46, was born on the Kentish coast within sight of France-or "the mainland," as he calls it today. In his maiden speech before the House of Commons in 1950, Heath urged the government (in vain) to join the European Coal & Steel Community, the germinal economic pact that was planned as a first step toward the federation of Europe. Last month E.C.S.C. members finally agreed to study Britain's application...
...support, the Lord Privy Seal has won a degree of respect from the Eurocrats that is rarely granted British officials on the Continent. Round the horseshoe table in the faceless slab that houses Belgium's Foreign Ministry on Brussels' Rue des Quatre Bras, they soon discovered that Heath's affable