Word: grimond
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another election imponderable as the race tightened was the weight of the third-party vote. "Get out and get in," cried Liberal Party Leader Jo Grimond to the candidates his party dispatched to fight in some 200 (out of 630) constituencies. The Liberals slugged hardest at the Tories' Suez failure and at "police state" colonial methods in Kenya and Nyasaland; they were also the only party campaigning for British membership in the European Common Market. Grimond & Co. did not expect to add more than half a dozen parliamentary seats to their present six, could only hope to exert real...
...need for us to play a leading and independent part. We cannot play this role as the 49th State. A spoonful-and it should not be more than a spoonful-of isolationism should also be permitted to us." The new leader of the Liberal Party, J. Joseph Grimond, wondered aloud whether Britain would not do better to reduce the Commonwealth to the "white Dominions"-Canada, Australia, New Zealand-and foresaw the day when Britain's economy might "look to Western Europe to give us added strength and wider margins. European unity would then become the major British interest...
Eden parried and dodged, then said flatly, thumping the dispatch box angrily: "To say that Her Majesty's government was engaged in some dishonorable activity is completely untrue, and I must emphatically deny it." Liberal Leader Joseph Grimond, still not satisfied, demanded to know whether the government could categorically deny that it had had information that Israel was going to attack Egypt. The House rang with cries of "Answer, answer." Finally Eden got to his feet. "There was not foreknowledge that Israel would attack Egypt-there was not," he insisted. "But there was something else. There was-we knew...