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...balance, Tory Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home fought a remarkable fight. A year ago, as an aristocratic amateur, he had inherited a party shattered by the Profumo scandal and enervated by a dozen years in power. They laughed when he sat down on the government front bench-but when he started to play politics, he very nearly led his party to victory. To a large extent, of course, it was a contest of personalities...
...their colleagues and the country, the statement was uncomfortably close to a specific accusation. Labor Chief Harold Wilson, who had ordered that the Profumo scandal not be raised by party leaders on the assumption that it might boomerang, gleefully picked up his cue and called on Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home to repudiate Hogg. Next day Hogg made a partial and grudging retraction. But he thought it was all most unfair, since "Mr. Profumo had paid a very high price indeed for a sin which is often committed by people who pay no price at all." Hogg...
...incumbent Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader, Sir Alec Douglas-Home might seem the automatic safe choice, but he isn't. His experience in foreign affairs does not compensate for his almost perfect ignorance of economics. He must depend on the competence and experience of his chief ministers to overshadow the talents of the Labour Party's "one-man band," Harold Wilson...
...consistent heckling of virtually every political leader has brought responses which have stirred interest in the election. Sir Alec has been helpless before the hostile crowd. Even worse, Education Minister Quintin Hogg (who used to be Lord Hailsham) replied to a heckler in Plymouth: "If you can tell me there are no adulterers on the Front Bench of the Labour Party you can talk to me about Profumo." Other indiscretions came from R.A. Butler, the Conservative foreign secretary, who told a reporter, "Things might start slipping in the last days. They won't slip toward...
...Wilson and his subordinates could not change the languid mood with their bland talks on housing, pensions, and education. But once voters--especially floating or undecided voters--began to take interest in the election, they seemed to respond more favorably to the issues Labour raises than to Sir Alec's favorites: the independent nuclear deterrent and the dangers of nationalization. And the possibility of a balance of payments crisis has reduced the appeal of the Tory prosperity...