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Reason for Confidence. Seeking a solution to the problem of jobs, Macmillan last week gave Lord Hailsham a new ministerial task of studying the northeast depressed areas, and told Birmingham businessmen that "with a little bit of luck" the economic slump might be reversed this year. As another weapon against political decline, Macmillan is clearly counting on admission to the Common Market despite the overwhelming obstacles ahead. On TV he said: "I believe that as soon as the Common Market is settled, and as soon as it is clear that there will not be another Socialist government, you will find...
Lethal Chamber. Both major parties would welcome the return to Commons of respected and experienced politicians who have been exiled to The Other Place. Among them: former Tory Party Chairman Viscount Hailsham, now Leader of the House of Lords, who as Quintin Hogg, M.P., was a longtime star of Commons debates, and Foreign Secretary Lord Home, who was a lackluster Tory M.P. but has made a deep impact on the party in the past two years. In Tory inner circles, both are regarded as among the half-dozen potential candidates to succeed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...
...Viscount Hailsham, the government's leader in the House of Lords, described the Communist conspiracy in memorable phrases that might possibly lodge in top Britons' memories. "In matters of security," he said, "we live in the penumbra of a ruthless and diabolical war, the like of which has scarcely been seen in Europe since the time of the Borgias...
Great Possessions. Pale with anger, the bewigged Lord Chancellor, Viscount Kilmuir, rose to Macleod's defense, calling Salisbury's speech "the most bitter attack I have ever known on a Minister in my 26 years in Parliament." Next came Lord Hailsham, 53, Tory campaign manager in the last election, who referred scathingly to Salisbury's "great possessions which, here and in Africa, give him the right to speak about affairs." (Salisbury, the capital of Southern Rhodesia, is named after his grandfather.) Hailsham went on: "My lords, we cannot all have great possessions...
...behaved much like the U.S. Republicans of 1948, campaigning decorously on the confident assumption that all they needed to do was to avoid rocking the boat. But unlike Tom Dewey's cohorts, the Tories awoke in time to change their campaign style. "Attack," ordered Tory Chairman Lord Hailsham last week. "Expose the grisly Socialist record. Ridicule their crude pretensions...