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...Philadelphia Museum of Art and the board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution. The National Art Gallery of Taiwan has a standing offer of an assistant curatorship; and last week Oxford University's Balliol College-the politicians' prep that produced Herbert Asquith, Harold Macmillan, Tory Leader Ted Heath, Defense Minister Denis Healey, and such other luminaries as Arnold Toynbee, Julian Huxley, Graham Greene and King Olaf of Norway-invited the Virginia-born Brahmin to lecture on American politics during the fall Michaelmas term. He is, in short, the alter ego of Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, a former...
...century English portraitist. In a private session with 200 British peers and Members of Parliament, left-wing Laborites did their best to bait him, but Humphrey fielded their barbed questions with aplomb, won a standing ovation at the end. "That was a magnificent performance," said Conservative Party Leader Ted Heath. In Bonn, his talks with West Germany's Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger went off smoothly, even though they took place immediately after the news had leaked out that the U.S. is planning a 12,000-man reduction in its Seventh Army. Humphrey heard no complaints about it. During...
...until such a force is created, Heath said, Britain must continue to discharge its own world commitments. The most expensive way of saving money is to pull troops prematurely out of a country Heath said. He insisted that British troops must remain in those countries which cannot repel foreign aggression or prevent domestic insurrection, he said...
...Heath said that the West should carry on "the greatest possible trade in nonstrategic goods" with Communist countries, including China. He said that this was the best possible way of stimulating the appetites of the citizens of these countries and leading them to impatience with a regime that denies choice to the consumer. Economic sanctions do not usually destroy revolutionary governments, Heath explained, but only make them more hostile...
...Heath will return to Britain by plane today to prepare for an important political tour of England next week...