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When he had been in that post less than a year, Ted Heath's reputation was put to the test in the ordeal of the Suez crisis. For weeks a top-to-bottom split in Tory ranks threatened to topple the government. In night after night of impassioned debate, Ted Heath's plump, pink face bobbed up wherever, as one M.P. says, "there was a soul to be saved." Convinced that it was too perilous a time for a general election, he averted that disaster almost singlehanded...
Britain has a more pressing problem. By the mid-1970s, British electricity consumption is expected to double. To supply the extra 50 million tons of coal that this would require each year is probably beyond the capacity of the nationalized British coal mines, and the 1956 Suez crisis indelibly etched on Britain's consciousness the risks and expense of relying on imported oil. To reduce to a minimum their dependence on imported fuel, the British hope by the 1970s to make atomic reactors second only to coal as a power source in Britain...
...clawing for their blue pencils. Burke's theme: "America and the West in general have a guilt complex about power." The complex, said Burke, derives from the "fundamental unreality" of seeking peace without being willing to use power: "It frustrates our every use of power. In Cuba, in Suez, in Korea, currently in Laos, we half use it in a compromise between dream and reality . . . The first signs of a refurbished wisdom will be found in a frank, conscious and determined use of our power-in all its forms -to determine the course of international events in the modern...
Flex the Muscles. East of Suez, Brian finds that the best is indeed like the worst; it is the same old We-They world, with the disconcerting difference that he is now a They, while the Communist peasants he is fighting seem to him to be little blokes. In a brilliantly described jungle patrol, Brian, alone, is attacked by one of them. He manages to disarm...
...Lords, there was a Prime Minister (Rosebery) with a Rothschild wife, a host of great English families with Rothschild blood. Disraeli was dining with Lionel Rothschild the night a Rothschild courier brought in a message from the Khedive of Egypt, offering to sell his shares in the Suez Canal for ?4,000,000. Since the Bank of England could not scrape up the money to meet the 48-hour deadline. Lionel politely supplied the cash...