Word: harold
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...unmistakably would like to see a peace settlement-on terms, of course, as advantageous as possible to the Communist cause. Indeed, Moscow clearly wants to have the leading hand in any negotiations, but it has made equally clear-most notably in spurning the peace overtures of Britain's Harold Wilson-that the initiative has to come from Hanoi. In the wake of a secret meeting on the Black Sea between leaders of North Viet Nam and Soviet Union (TIME, Sept. 2), a second North Vietnamese delegation showed up in Moscow last week; though ostensibly an economic mission, its presence...
...occasion was the 16th Commonwealth Prime Ministers' conference, and the primary issue was Rhodesia. Last January, Britain's Harold Wilson had talked the Commonwealth's nine African nations into going along with his policy of economic sanctions as the best way to topple Ian Smith's white rebel regime and prepare the way for handing the government over to Rhodesia's repressed black majority. But the sanctions have not worked, and Wilson last week faced a different kind of rebellion...
...black African nations might well do the same. But Britain's military resources are already stretched thin, and public opinion in Britain would not tolerate use of force against "kith and kin" in Rhodesia. Moreover there are the Commonwealth's white members to consider: Australia's Harold Holt is dead set against the use of force...
...worker in all this, but now they're going to freeze wages. This talk about workin' harder is a myth. By and large we do our best." Wilson's appeal for Britons to show some of the "Dunkirk spirit" is "so much piffle" to Electroplater Harold Lane. Southampton Dock Leader Trevor Stallard argues that Wilson should have clamped down on profits first, then come to labor for cooperation. "Every time there is a real crisis or an artificial crisis," he says, "the worker rather than the employer classes have to suffer." Shop Steward Tony Bradley, in Morris...
From Britain, the Royal Shakespeare Company is bringing Harold Pinter's success, The Homecoming, and Peter Weiss's The Investigation, a courtroom documentary about Nazi war crimes. Dinner at Eight, the 1932 collaboration of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, will be served once again, this time with so many stars (Robert Burr, Ruth Ford, Arlene Francis, June Havoc, Walter Pidgeon, among others) that the cast is to be billed alphabetically and refereed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie. (Explaining his first Broadway directing job since he left for the Minnesota Theater Company in 1960, Guthrie says...