Word: hailsham
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...young Quintin McGarel Hogg, complaining that the new family title would one day keep him from becoming Prime Minister-since British Prime Ministers by tradition are chosen from the House of Commons, not the Lords. In 1950, after his father died, ambitious Tory Hogg reluctantly became the second Viscount Hailsham and thus a member of the Lords, which he described as "a political ghetto." Last week, having triumphantly returned from representing Britain at the Moscow test ban talks, Science Minister Hailsham, 55, finally got a chance to escape that ghetto-and thus enter the running as one of Harold Macmillan...
...renounce his title to run for the Commons. As originally drawn by the government, the bill would not have gone into effect until Parliament was dissolved for the next election, which need not be held until fall 1964. That, to the Lords, looked suspiciously like a maneuver to keep Hailsham from getting into the political swim, presumably engineered by some of his rivals for the prime ministership-or even by Harold Macmillan, who is sounding increasingly reluctant to step down. When the bill reached the Lords, they voted to amend it to make it effective as soon as the Queen...
Around a green baize table sat U.S. Secretary for Political Affairs W. Averell Harriman, British Science Minister Lord Hailsham and Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. At each man's elbow was a copy of the agreement, bound in red leather, initialed a few minutes earlier...
Harriman, Hailsham and their advisers met at the British embassy; after about a three-hour daily meeting with the Soviets in Spiridonovka Palace, the Westerners talked over the day's negotiations in the U.S. embassy "tank," a small room safe (hopefully) from ubiquitous hidden Soviet listening devices. During one informal evening that he spent chatting with U.S. correspondents at the Sovietskaya Hotel, Harriman suddenly looked up at the ceiling and said, "Mr. Khrushchev, if you hear what I am saying...
...opposition to onsite inspections of possible underground blasts. As usual, Gromyko argued that such inspections were unnecessary anyway, in view of long-range seismic detection devices. When the sudden crash of an accidentally overturned chair startled the delegates, Gromyko said quickly: "This is confirmation that everyone detects it." Growled Hailsham: "It still needs inspection...