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...your article on Sir Alec Douglas-Home, you quote his brother as saying that under Home there will not be the nepotism of Macmillan's Cabinet. This seems hard to believe, since his very succession could be regarded as nepotism. Lady Macmillan and Sir Alec are cousins. Both are descended from the interesting-looking great-great-grandmother who is holding him in the picture accompanying the article. This ancestress, whom you left unidentified, was Louisa (1812-1905), daughter of the 6th Duke of Bedford and wife of the 1st Duke of Abercorn. If her contemporary, Queen Victoria...
...qualified for election to Parliament from a safe Tory seat (Kinross and West Perthshire, Scotland's second-biggest electoral district). Said he: "I don't feel any different." But Britons, who at first were widely skeptical of Lord Home, were already beginning to feel different about Sir Alec...
...empty seat, Labor's Harold Wilson thundered that postponing Parliament's next session to suit Douglas-Home's convenience was tantamount to treating M.P.s like "awkward or refractory tenants" and constituted a "very serious tampering with the rights and duties of the House." Sir Alec (as he prefers to be known) merely sat out his first showdown with Wilson in 10 Downing Street and refused to budge...
...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...
Political Blood. To his father's regret, young Alec Home lost interest in fox hunting after falling off a walking horse the first time he rode to hounds. Home still follows his other boyhood pursuits: bird watching, butterfly collecting, flower arranging, piano playing. Macmillan occasionally visits the Homes for the grouse shooting, and, friends say, was about to tip the gillie ?2 one day, when the thrifty Earl advised him sharply: "Half as much will...