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...late, British officials scurried across the Continent to plead their government's case-resembling, in former Tory Party Leader Iain Macleod's withering phrase, "doves sent out from the Ark to tell people that Noah's sorry it's raining." Even so, hardheaded foreign bankers might have waited for Noah to reach dry land if there had been any real sign that the government was coming to grips with Britain's basic economic ills. On the contrary, Wilson clearly assigned priority to expanded welfare statism that Britain can patently ill afford. He also insisted...
...though technologically advanced, suffers from too many inefficient small firms, and Labor economists argue that if the industry is not nationalized, a massive number of mergers, leading to monopoly situations and price fixing, are bound to occur. The Conservatives admit the problem, but deny that nationalization is the answer. Iain Macleod, lately returned to the Tory front bench after a disgruntled self-exile in journalism, called steel nationalization "the application by small and foolish men of a 19th century solution to a mid-20th century problem...
Conservative politicians gleefully roasted the novel. Former Education Minister Sir Edward Boyle sniffed that Snow's fictional Prime Minister was "pretty incredible." Frontbencher Iain Macleod said that "as a portrait of Tory politics half a dozen years ago, it is charmingly square." Quintin Hogg mused. "Where are the snows of yesteryear?" Literary critics were kinder, except for Cambridge Don F. R. Leavis, whose 1962 onslaught on Snow as "portentously ignorant" remains a bloody monument in the history of British literary warfare. Leavis acidly remarked: "Snow is in his heaven, the House of Lords." Snow urbanely shrugged off the critics...
...effect, deputy leader of the party. A short quarter step behind came Edward Heath, 48, the Tories' tough-minded, troubleshooting economics expert, who will be responsible for the party's policy planning. Back from self-imposed exile came Renegades Iain Macleod and Enoch Powell, who had refused to serve in Sir Alec's administration after the unseemly struggle for succession to Harold Macmillan's premiership just a year ago. Macleod's job: leading the Tory attack against Labor's program to renationalize the steel industry. Right behind Maudling and Heath in authority Sir Alec...
...Rutherglen, outside Glasgow, Laborite J. Gregor Mackenzie, 36, a Glasgow city councilman, won over Iain Sproat, 25, a journalist of whom the New Statesman wrote: "If he was any further to the Right, he would be in the North...