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Died. Diana Churchill, 54, eldest daughter of Sir Winston, a quiet blonde who saw her first marriage, to a South African gold-mine heir, go on the rocks within months, her second, to Tory Politician Duncan Sandys (now Commonwealth Relations Secretary), end after 25 years in 1960, reverted to her maiden name and devoted her time to the Samaritans, an organization that tries to dissuade would-be suicides from taking the final step; by her own hand (barbiturates); in London...
Home's rise to the premiership has no parallel in modern times. He has been in politics for 27 of his 60 years, but he had held no Cabinet post before he became Commonwealth Relations Secretary. Though he worked diligently in the Commonwealth job and was also an able leader of the House of Lords before he took over the Foreign Office from Selwyn Lloyd in 1960, few Britons knew his name, and even fewer could pronounce it correctly. Most critics were angered by the fact that the Foreign Secretary would sit in the Lords, sheltered from the heavy...
...rebuked British anti-Americanism: "The British people must recognize who are their friends and who are not. 1 am all for being fairminded, but 1 do wish this country had a little less of the intellectual fringe and more horse sense." On his first visit to India as Commonwealth Relations Secretary, Home questioned the value of neutrality in talks with government leaders. "Weakness invites aggression," he said. He is an informal, unself-conscious diplomat who sometimes shows up for conferences in old worn carpet slippers, but his blunt talk often infuriates people. A cherished tribute to his forensic skill...
...Alliances: "Internationally, Britain's strength rests upon a tripod of the Commonwealth, Europe, and the Atlantic Alliance. But a tripod is a particularly uncomfortable seat if one leg is shorter and weaker than the other, and so it must be the positive purpose of our foreign policy to strengthen all three...
...doubt "fornication" is only one of the more genial of a long list of activities illegal in Massachusetts; if Harvard is going to make itself responsible for this, it ought not to ignore duller sins. Certainly Harvard has the right to see that the laws of the Commonwealth are upheld by members of the University -- and I'm sure that residents of the Houses would surrender more gracefully to the inevitable if the problem were stated unequivocally. But why in heaven's name must anyone haul in "love and last" and a lot of other orotund phrases which are quite...