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While the Conservatives celebrated their unexpected victory, Prime Minister Edward Heath formed a government with great dispatch. Between a party for his campaign workers and a speech to civil servants about his plans for streamlining the governmental system, Heath presided over a 50-minute Cabinet meeting and pondered the legislative priorities that would become the framework of the Queen's speech at the opening of Parliament this week. Then, at the helm of his sloop Morning Cloud, he competed in a 60-mile race around the Isle of Wight...
Market Problems. Meanwhile, Heath's new government was already slightly embarrassed by the hasty arrival of South African Foreign Minister Hilgard Muller, who flew to London for talks with Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Tories assumed that Muller intended to remind them about their promise to end the Labor government's 1964 embargo on arms sales to South Africa. The Labor Party's National Executive warned Heath, however, that such action could "endanger the existence of the Commonwealth and flout the authority of the United Nations...
...most pressing issue of all is the forthcoming round of Common Market talks, in which Britain's new chief negotiator will be Anthony Barber, who managed the recent Heath campaign. The view on the Continent is that the Conservatives' victory has enhanced Britain's prospect of joining Europe. Not necessarily. Some observers believe that Harold Wilson, who has never been as deeply committed to Market entry as Heath, may try to rally antiMarket sentiment in both parties as a means of thwarting the new Prime Minister's ambition...
...eighth day of power, the Heath government was confronted with its first real crisis. London had already decided to bolster the 8,000-man garrison in Northern Ireland with 3,000 more British troops. Its decision followed a threat by Ulster's Protestant militants, led by the Rev. Ian Paisley, to hold a series of Orange Order parades of the kind that provoked last year's violence between Protestants and the Roman Catholic minority. The extra soldiers were needed sooner than anyone had expected...
...Heath betrays no illusions about the greatly diminished influence of his country in the world today, but he is disturbed by the lack of dynamism and sense of purpose in Britain's national life. "We had a similar problem in the '20s and '30s," he says. "It's a question of leadership. Even Winston couldn't change the situation at that time. You must somehow be able to exert a proper influence without the stimulus of crisis. Crises only produce panic." Heath believes that if Britain does not produce more men who are willing to lead the kind of country...