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Into the Act. A lot of other people were getting into the act. Among them was British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, so far a staunch defender of U.S. involvement. At a Commonwealth meeting in London last week, Wilson proposed that a delegation of Commonwealth Ministers go to Washington, Moscow, Peking, Hanoi and Saigon to strive for peace. Everybody was very polite about the idea; even President Johnson professed himself to be "delighted." But for a variety of reasons, the mission would probably never get off the ground...
Harvard first determined to conduct a ceremonial graduation in 1642 when nine bachelors' degrees were awarded. To that first commencement came, in procession, the same people who will be there this morning: the Governor of the Commonwealth, with his pike-carrying guards mounted on horseback, the minister of the six towns surrounding the College, various neighboring magistrates, and the Harvard Faculty...
...first Kenyatta kept his counsel. Then he fired Odinga as chief Kenya delegate to this month's British Commonwealth Conference, and rose to speak about his young nation's direction...
Banded together in the area are 45 countries-the Commonwealth and its traditional trading partners-as disparate as Jordan, Iceland, Pakistan, Eire, Ghana and South Africa. They invest most of their own foreign-exchange holdings in British gilt-edged bonds, thus swelling the reserves that Britain can use to defend the pound. When these countries run into deficits in their foreign trade, which happens particularly when commodity prices drop, the situation changes: the sterling area members cash in their bonds and thus pull down Britain's reserves. This is precisely what occurred this year; so far, the sterling nations...
Even today, a certain xenophobia, perhaps inspired by two world wars, still lingers, as does the reluctance to take any step that might "let down the Commonwealth." Moreover, the party's aging unionists, haunted by memories of Depression unemployment, oppose lowering tariffs against Continental merchandise, which, they fear, would imperil the jobs of British workers...