Word: blackpool
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seaside resort of Blackpool in industrial Lancashire, Soviet Ambassador Jacob A. Malik found an unlikely path to the heart of the British masses. He pulled a silver-handled switch, turning on 450,000 colored lights that run for seven miles and cause illuminated tableaux, moving figures and patriotic portraits to glitter brilliantly against a background of 50 miles of electric bulbs. The lights are the pride of the working class of Lancashire, and the wily Soviet ambassador praised lights, people, town, county, and even allowed that the celebration was not unlike certain Soviet celebrations, before crying, "Long live light...
BRITAIN'S PRIME MINISTER WINSTON CHURCHILL, addressing the Conservative Party conference at Blackpool...
Never had Anthony Eden seemed more quietly confident or the Tory faithful more pleased with him. In Blackpool's Empress ballroom, 4,100 delegates to the annual Tory Party conference gave him a two-minute ovation and burst into For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Even dapper Julian Amery, who last year led the diehard imperialists in an attack on Eden's decision to evacuate Suez, had only praise for Eden's achievements at the London Conference: "Far from renouncing our imperial mission, this gives us the chance to lead the world once more...
...despite the cheers there was an underlying tension. Nearly all those assembled at Blackpool and. according to a new Gallup poll, nearly half of all Tory voters, feel that Winston Churchill should retire. In the months before the conference, Sir Winston twice set a date for retirement, twice put it off. Two weeks ago, he suggested that Eden should leave the Foreign Office and become Deputy Prime Minister, where he could acquaint himself with domestic problems. As an inducement, he even offered Eden the use of Chequers, the Prime Minister's country residence (which Churchill has never liked...
...when Sir Winston lumbered on the stage on Blackpool's closing day, the delegates gave the grand old man an ovation which brought happy tears to his eyes. Eden warmly introduced him: "Throughout the world, you are today acknowledged as the greatest man upon this earth...