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...Downing Street or Westminster. Queen Elizabeth is a personification of the unspoken social contract Englishmen have made with each other over the centuries, the contract that preserves the continuity of the community and order despite political or economic or social differences. In the atavistic recesses of virtually every Briton's mind is the real, if irrational, sense that the Queen as a person is there, alert and ready with a cool, restraining hand, to protect him from the excesses of his fellow man. It is a delicate arrangement which must depend on an instinctive confidence between the parties involved...
...comprehending commissar has seemed "the best of a bad lot." To the rough, tough muzhik Khrushchev, he is the useful Mr. Worldly-Wise of the Russian proverb who "knows where the shrimps stay in winter." Today, as in Stalin's time, Mikoyan serves indispensably-and survives. Says a Briton who has watched Mikoyan for years: "He knows how to jump at the right time...
...Mikoyan felt about doing the Hungarian dirty work no outsider knows. A Briton who has lived long in Moscow says: "Mikoyan disappeared from the Moscow round from mid-October to the beginning of December. In those six weeks he aged ten years. He was drawn and haggard, and his skin was yellow when we saw him again. Instead of an old man looking young, he was an old man looking more than...
...descending on the Continent in overwhelming numbers again. The $150 million spent by some 270,000 Americans in Britain alone this year will provide enough hard curency to pay for most of the dollar-short United Kingdom's purchases of U.S. tobacco and wheat. But to many a Briton, forced by a still constricted travel allowance ($280 in foreign currency) to stay at home while others wandered, the warm economic comfort of tourism was somewhat chilled by recognition of the fact that his tight little island was terribly overcrowded...
...those who took the trouble to look beyond the headlines into the body of Lord Altrincham's article, the point was clear enough and one that has troubled the thoughts of many another Briton now recovered from the first, fine rapture of enjoying a pretty, well-mannered new Queen: What and where are a monarch's responsibilities in a democratic world? "When the Queen," wrote Altrincham, "has lost the bloom of youth, her reputation will depend far more than it does now upon her personality. She will have to say things which people can remember, and do things...