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With a general election ahead, Ceylon's leader has every reason to be edgy. Mrs. Bandaranaike is contesting her late husband's old seat at Attana-galla, near Colombo, and while she may keep a place in Parliament, she may well lose her prime-ministership. Labor strikes and a binge of nationalization have crippled the economy. Last summer she tried to prop up her unstable government by forming an alliance with the island's Trotskyites, who received three Cabinet portfolios, including the Finance Ministry...
...decade in lonely, futile opposition to the appeasement policies of the government. Most observers considered his career ended. But when Neville Chamberlain's government collapsed in the face of Germany's conquests of Poland, Norway, Denmark, and the Low Countries, Churchill was the inevitable choice for the Prime Ministership...
...Nehru's most loyal lieutenants and who, like his leader, comes from Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state and the traditional breeding ground of Congress Party leaders. If Shastri is disqualified -he had a heart attack in 1959-a leading contender for the prime-ministership would probably be S. K. Patil, 63, a right-winger who runs Bombay with brisk efficiency and until the Cabinet purge coped ably with the thankless job of Food Minister, though grain shortages prompted the crack that he "gave India food-for thought...
...week following Harold Macmillian's retirement, Lord Home was everyone's second choice. While R. A. B. Butler and Lord Hailsham split bitterly in quest of the Prime Ministership, Home waited patiently for a deadlock, hoping for the appointment as a compromise candidate. Both the deadlock and the appointment came, but the compromise was only illusory. In seeking to resolve the Butler-Hailsham conflict with Home, unflappable Mac inadvertently produced nothing short of a party revolt...
...Douglas-Home's shrewdest appointments, to the crucial job of party chairman, was Labor Minister John Hare, 52, a hardworking, true-blue Tory. As for Sir Alec's defeated rival for the prime ministership, Rab Butler, he had always wanted to be Foreign Secretary (Harold Macmillan denied him the job), and Rab made his debut last week at a Western European Union conference at The Hague with complete professional aplomb...