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Next day, for the first time since 1814, the House formally recorded its admiration and gratitude for one man. The resolution was moved by the Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and was followed by brief tributes by Liberal Jo Grimond, arch-Conservative Sir Thomas Moore, Labor's Harold Wilson and Emanuel Shinwell...
When Kant Had a Cold. Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, who has made education a chief issue for the forthcoming election, demanded an investigation by a Royal Commission and went on the radio to decry the "miserably inadequate" research facilities provided by the government. Liberal Party Chief Jo Grimond pointed to the low prestige that Britain grants its intellectuals. "The citizens of Konigsberg rang church bells when Immanuel Kant recovered from a cold," he said. "Here nobody even gave one cheer for our scientists until they started to leave the country...
Last week in New Haven, Conn., where he was Yale's second Chubb Fellow of the year, Liberal Leader Jo Grimond conceded that his party has little chance of any "immense increase" in voting strength under the present electoral system in Britain. However, he said, the Liberals "are the only party in Britain today that is paying any attention to the implications of Europe." He chided the Labor Party for its anti-Common Market stand, and censured Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Tory government for having made Common Market membership "more difficult" by its failure to instruct...
...must understand that the political side of the Common Market agreement is going to be extremely important in the years to come," he added. "European elections and a European parliament are not an impossible eventuality." Under those conditions, thinks Grimond, the Liberals could conceivably "become part of a widely based progressive or radical party" supporting such Liberal ideas as changes in the educational and social system, and limited redistribution of property ownership. With citizenship in a United Europe, concluded Grimond, "our friendship with the Americans should not be based on any exclusive interests, but on the coordination of European...
...experts may well be wrong. The confident, well-disciplined party at Llandudno last week suggested that it could at least hold the balance of power in an electorate that is increasingly bored with the Tories and mistrustful of the Socialists. As for the "party of protest" label, Grimond retorts: "What's wrong with that for a start...