Word: harolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945, by Harold Macmillan. Wartime England's darkest and finest hours are remembered with wisdom and clarity in the second volume of the former Prime Minister's autobiography...
...rage among British cartoonists these days is to picture Harold Wilson in the buff, thus reflecting Britain's denuded estate. Though he frequently comes out looking quite cherubic, the cartoonists' jabs are just one of the painfully bare facts of life that Britain's Prime Minister has to face in the nadir of his popularity. As he leaves for Washington this week for his first talks in eight months with Lyndon Johnson, Wilson finds himself under fire from almost every direction. So bitter has the criticism become that Lord Gardiner, the Lord Chancellor, recently rose...
...Even the left and right wings of Wilson's Labor Party are in the full cry of revolt. Veteran Right Wing M.P. Desmond Donnelly has bucked party discipline, and called for Wilson's resignation. Says Laborite M.P. Reginald Paget: "It really boils down to the fact that Harold Wilson has reached the stage which Lloyd George reached at a certain point-that no one in the world believes a word he says...
While Lyndon Johnson will be able to pull some polls from his pocket to show that his popularity has begun an upswing after a long decline, Harold Wilson's notices are dominated by those embarrassing cartoons. The most telling one, run in the Daily Mail, was a biting play on names, involving Wilson and Britain's Great Train Robber Charles Wilson, who was captured in Quebec two weeks ago. The cartoon showed two trusties chatting outside Robber Wilson's jail cell: "Like the proverb says, Fingers, you can fool some of the people some of the time...
...NEVER LOVE A STRANGER, Harold Robbins...