Word: grimond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson cared less about Heath's reaction than about that of Liberal Leader Jo Grimond, whose nine votes in the House provide the extra margin Labor needs to operate comfortably. Since the Liberals are dead set against steel nationalization, Wilson's omission was calculated-and successful. Welcoming Wilson's steel retreat, Grimond exulted: "It is recognized in the speech that the government no longer stands for socialism...
...what he called its "sophisticated insouciance" in dealing with Europe. In Bonn, a West German government official said: "The U.S. has a role in Europe. When the time comes again, we hope you will have solved your other problems and can play it." British Liberal Party Leader Jo Grimond recently rose in Parliament to criticize President Johnson for not being "deeply interested in Europe." In Paris, a poll taken by the Institut Francais d'Opinion Publique to determine the world figure whom Frenchmen regard as the greatest menace to world peace, Lyndon Johnson ran a close second...
...Churchill lay in state in Westminster Hall, the three party leaders, Labor's Wilson, the Conservatives' Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and the Liberals' Jo Grimond, stood together in reverent silence before the catafalque. They must have recognized the Tightness of the scene, for in this very hall and on the very spot where Churchill lay Simon de Montfort had called together Britain's first Parliament 700 years before almost to the day. In its long history the hall had seen prodigies, from the Court of William Rufus in 1099 to the trials of Guy Fawkes...
...slap was aimed not only at the Prime Minister but at his party and platform as well, as Tory Leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home was quick to emphasize. "It is the country's verdict on the first 100 days of Socialism in practice," crowed Sir Alec. Added Jo Grimond, leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Commons: "If Mr. Wil son wants to stay in office, he really must start doing things which appeal to a wider public than the hard-core Socialist voters...
...hour later it was only 19. In the end, with 630 seats at stake, Labor had won 317, or a majority of only four. The Tories carried 304 constituencies, down 56. The minuscule Liberal Party had nine, up two from the last Parliament, and Liberal Leader Jo Grimond promised, "under certain conditions," to support a Labor government. In the popular vote, Labor captured 44.2% of the ballots, Conservatives 43.4%, Liberals 11.2%, Communists .2% , others...