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...towns in Britain are so contentedly Tory as Bournemouth on England's south coast -a palmy haunt of the retired rich, of Pekingese dogs and uniformed chauffeurs. But last week, with a general election possibly a few months off, the parliamentary constituency of Bournemouth East was making a spectacle of itself...
...Bournemouth Tories confidently elected to Parliament Publisher Nigel Nicolson, son of British Authors Sir Harold Nicolson and Victoria Sackville-West. Tory Nicolson, 42, has all the proper caste marks (Eton, Oxford, Grenadier Guards), but he also likes to think for himself. First he expressed his opposition to capital punishment, for which some of Bournemouth's retired officers and wealthy widows have never forgiven him. Worst of all, Backbencher Tory Nicolson publicly criticized Sir Anthony Eden's Suez invasion. Outraged, local Tory leaders formally forbade members of the local party to have any contact with him, and pointedly announced...
Retreat. Fortnight ago, the Tory brass of Bournemouth sank into deeper trouble. Major Friend, they learned, was in close cahoots with the League of Empire Loyalists, a quasi-fascist group that recently heckled Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan himself. Friend, it turned out, had written letters arranging that every time Nigel Nicolson tried to hold a meeting, the Loyalists would break it up with their heckling and roughhousing. Unhappily, the Bournemouth East Conservative Association accepted Major Friend's withdrawal...
...they were still as hostile as ever to Nicolson, whose reputation in staid Bournemouth had not been enhanced by news that his firm, after other proper English publishers had turned it down, was about to publish the British edition of Lolita...
Beneath the bright white lights of Bournemouth's Pavilion-more commonly switched on for comedians and jugglers entertaining the seaside resort trade-Britain's trade-union movement showed its age last week. World War II and service in Britain's postwar Labor government have given the brash, rash revolutionaries of yesteryear a more mature sense of responsibility, a new aura of middle-class respectability. Less anxious to "nationalize everything," more alert to the Communist menace in their ranks, the leaders of the Trades Union Congress (8,377,325 members in 185 affiliated unions) have moved steadily...