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Chilly Chancelleries. Partly, the change is the result of great expectations. Hugh Gaitskell, the first important Briton to meet with Kennedy after his election, virtually granted him honorary membership in Britain's Labor Party and returned to London predicting marvelous new things from the new broom in Washington. Visiting the White House in his turn, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan swiftly lost whatever misgivings he had had at parting from Old Friend Dwight Eisenhower and was reportedly convinced that Kennedy "possessed skills in abundance.'' France's lordly Charles de Gaulle hailed Kennedy as his "dear partner...
...hunting prowess, and the Nepalese still fondly recall the bloody 1911 visit of Britain's King George V, who carted away the carcasses of 39 tigers, 18 rhinos and four bears-plus one unfortunate leopard, run over by the royal mail van. Last week another royal Briton, Queen Elizabeth II, flew into Katmandu from India, and for George's granddaughter, impoverished Nepal (per capita income estimated at $70 cash a year) planned the most elaborate one-day shikar in its history...
...Britons actually had very little to be complacent about, snapped Britain's weekly Time and Tide; the U.S. Negro was actually better off. Basing its article on a U.S. embassy pamphlet, The Economic Situation of Negroes in the U.S., Time and Tide reported that U.S. Negroes make more money ($2,700 a year) than the average Briton. More Negroes live in their own homes (36% v. 32%). More than one-third of U.S. Negroes between 18 and 19 were still in school, as compared with fewer than 17% of English children over...
Time and Tide's comparisons failed to take into full consideration some of the differences in the cost of living between England and the U.S. The average Briton pays little for his basic necessities, though what he gets for his money is admittedly basic. Two-bedroom apartments owned and subsidized by local authorities can be rented for as little as $7.60 a week, while the maximum for a four-bedroom house in the suburbs begins at $11.20 a week. The average British family can be fed on $14 a week. Taxes are heavy, but the government pays for womb...
...novel, Irish-Scottish Honor Tracy emerges as a satirist wielding bludgeon and scalpel in defense of the Establishment-that in domitable, mutual-aid group of clergy, big business and old school ties who rule Britain, no matter who wins the elections. Her hero, a proper and rather priggish young Briton named Henry Lamb, is sent to Trinidad in the West Indies as correspondent of Torch, a lit'ry weekly "that's going to teach us all to live." In Trinidad, gushes Torch's lisping editor, "the dwegs and outcasts of the community now are forging a destiny...