Word: chancellorship
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...middle-road and right-wing support. A naval petty officer's son who would have been Chancellor of the Exchequer in a Gaitskell Cabinet, "Stoker" Callaghan is a hard-boiled debater and effective TV performer, but is regarded by many colleagues as a lightweight. To prepare for the chancellorship, he has been cramming with some of Oxford's brightest young dons, who privately rate him "B or B-plus." He is an engaging, hard-working politician, and many of Brown's supporters fear that he may split the right-wing vote. In a deadlock, he could even...
...obsession with his political career. Whenever something threatens the Chancellor's reputation, or tries to influence the date of his retirement or his plans for a successor, it washes away his dignity and vision. There were his childish assaults on Dr. Ludwig Erhard when it seemed that the Chancellorship, and his campaign of vilification against Willy Brandt. At the moment he appears to be under going an extended lapse, which his most faithful lieu-tenants (Herr Dufhues and Herr Krone) no doubt recognized last week: they called upon him, as if to wake him up, to reassert control...
...year-old Bavarian, his forced resignation might well be the end of a political career that once seemed headed for the chancellorship itself. Although he is bright and talented, Strauss's muscular methods have led him into many political blunders. Once, after he deliberately jumped a red light, Strauss caused a national scandal by trying to fire the traffic cop who sent him a summons. More recently, he was involved in an unsavory case of favoritism in contract awards for military housing. He has since been exonerated. If he is to retrieve his reputation and once again climb back...
...announce the news, a longtime associate let it be known that the Chancellor is seriously considering running for the ceremonial office of President in 1964 to guarantee continuity of policy-and also to buy himself another year as Chancellor. Nobody, after all. would insist that he vacate the chancellorship in 1963 if he intends to move over to the presidency in 1964. Adenauer is still fighting to keep Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard from becoming his successor; he considers Erhard too weak and indecisive to be Chancellor...
...choleric, keen-witted Conor Cruise O'Brien, 44, the literary critic and critical diplomat who was chief of the U.N.'s Katanga force until he resigned in a huff over British and French policy in the Congo. New post for Dr. O'Brien: the vice-chancellorship of the University of Ghana, under "Chan cellor" Kwame Nkrumah...