Word: fienburgh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Adapted from a novel published posthumously by Wilfred Fienburgh, M.P., the film tells the story of an able, middle-aged Laborite from a Midlands mill town (Peter Finch) who arrives at a climactic (and climacteric) moment in his career. Re-elected with a thumping majority, he expects to be offered a Cabinet post, but for no clear reason finds himself quietly scuppered. The rejection rankles. A child of poverty, the hero has unhappily contracted one of the more dangerous diseases of deficiency: galloping ambition. He finds biological consolation by attaching himself to a gorgeous platinum blonde (Mary Peach) about half...
...would interfere with its planned economy. In the past, British leaders have tended to deny or at least to evade the charge that the Labor Party's national socialism stood in the way of British cooperation with Europe. Last week some Labor spokesmen were more frank. Wrote Wilfred Fienburgh, the Labor Party's newly appointed research secretary: "A nation which has undertaken full employment planning cannot be expected to relinquish any of its autonomy to an international authority ... If the balance of power on any international body were to tend toward restriction [of industry], the full employment countries...
| 1 |