Word: harold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With perception and surprising accuracy, you catalogued the United Kingdom's basic problems and hoped-for solutions in your April 30 cover story. Britain was tired of Conservative complacency, and the world in turn was tired of Great Britain. A Tory at heart, I still realize that in Harold Wilson lies the best hope for Britain and the Atlantic Alliance...
...Harold's tie is crooked and he looks hunchbacked. Otherwise, très bien...
Last week everyone seemed willing to talk about Cambodian neutrality-everyone, that is, except Cambodia's Prince Norodom ("Snookie") Sihanouk and his Red Chinese mentors. In Washington, Lyndon Johnson applauded the idea of a Cambodian conference. In London, Prime Minister Harold Wilson heartily concurred. And in Paris, where Charles de Gaulle was playing host to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, both France and Russia gave their consent. To all and sundry it seemed an ideal backdoor to negotiations over Viet Nam, and it was precisely that which bugged the Snook...
...Harold Wilson's Labor government last week published its long-awaited blueprint for nationalizing Britain's steel industry, the fifth largest in the world. Though steel nationalization is the most controversial plank in the Socialists' platform, Wilson's White Paper was tough, uncompromising - and expensive...
...announced that it would send only an "observer" to next week's annual SEATO meeting in London, though all other members are sending foreign ministers. "Deplorable," declared the conference's British hosts, who had been flattering themselves that their understanding with De Gaulle was rather good since Harold Wilson's visit to Paris four weeks ago, and had hoped that the French might underwrite a condemnation of Indonesian aggression in Malaysia...