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Mendy Weisgal 1G, plays the lead of Hector Rigoletto, a butcher who is mystically able to determine who all the other characters were in their other existences. Opposite him in the feminine lead is Claire Gilman, Radcliffe...
...plot of Gerhardi's satire on reincarnation revolves about a character called Hector Rigoletto, a butcher who is mystically able to determine who all the other characters were in their "former existences." Rigoletto himself, played by Mendy Welagal '45, had been Aristotle and Abelard...
...went ailing, cantankerous War Minister Jack Lawson, aged Air Minister Viscount Stansgate, muddling Minister of Civil Aviation Lord Winster. Up went brilliant, young (36) Hector McNeil, Foreign Office Parliamentary Under Secretary, to be Minister of State; voluble Arthur Creech Jones, Colonial Office Parliamentary Under Secretary, became Colonial Minister...
...voice belonged to stocky, sandy-haired British Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Hector McNeil. As Molotov doggedly insisted that voting procedure was a substantive matter requiring a two-thirds vote, McNeil's pawky accent cut the smoke. "How can the voting procedure be substantive when, by very definition, the Rules Committee is only qualified to deal with procedural matters?" he snapped. Then, for about ten minutes, the young (36) Scot assailed the Russian position, with such impolite epithets as "baffling," "bewildering," "illogical," "absolute nonsense...
Through the entire debate ran a note of acknowledgment that Britain's role was secondary to the U.S. Perhaps young (36) Hector McNeil, Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, stated it most clearly: "We may be without cash. We may be much less than the power we were even six years ago. . . . Moral currency must be reestablished. If we [no longer] have the power to coerce and to dominate . . . I insist that this country have the ability to lead morally. . . . One appeasement in any generation is one too many...