Word: grimond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...business talent is lacking among them. The Conservative Daily Telegraph optimistically announced: "The government has a fresher and stronger look." Opposition leaders were derisive. Labor's Hugh Gaitskell called the Cabinet shake-up "a political massacre which can only be interpreted as a gigantic admission of failure." Joseph Grimond, chief of the renascent Liberals, declared: "After twelve years in office, it is too late for the Tories to try and put a new face on their administration...
Committed by its charter, the Treaty of Rome, to enduring and "ever closer union," the Common Market may become a United States of Europe in the 1970s, with general elections, as British Liberal Leader Jo Grimond predicts, "reaching from the Orkney Islands to Sicily...
...Senator Paul Douglas, President Adolf Scharf of Austria, Walter P. Reuther, Senator Joseph Clark, Mayor Willy Brandt, James Carey, David Dubinsky, Roy Wilkins, Chester Bowles, Kenya Political Leader Tom Mboya, Senator Wayne Morse, Governor Hughes of New Jersey, Robert C. Weaver, Senator Maurine Neuberger, Governor Nelson of Wisconsin, Joseph Grimond, leader of the British Liberal Party...
...issues of class and of the Common Market will both affect the electorate profoundly, but of all the party leaders, Mr. Gaitskell alone seems to be aware of it. Mr. Macmillan retreats inscrutably into Downing Street; Jo Grimond of the Liberals congratulates himself on the results of by-elections, tears down the other parties, and constructs a preposterous domestic platform. "Nice people, the British," Mr. Gaitskell imagined other nations saying shortly, "easy-going, kindly, tolerant; they have had a glorious past. The only trouble is their stagnation--somehow they have lost out, lost their dynamic." His is a very palpable...