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Ruthless & Demanding. In British political circles, Brown generally inspires either admiration or loathing-but little in between. In his rise in the Labor Party, he has exhibited a quick and imaginative mind, an instinctive gift for finding new approaches to problems and a flair for efficient administration. After years of representing the powerful trade unions in Parliament, Brown was made the party's deputy leader in 1960 by the late Hugh Gaitskell. When Gaitskell died, Brown was the logical choice for the leadership, but quickly ran into competition from Harold Wilson. Wilson finally beat out Brown in what Laborites...
...this out in its own way. With us, a genuine, orderly and effective democracy excludes political parties, but this in no way implies the exclusion of legitimate contrast of opinions." What Franco did was trim the power of his own politically potent Falange, which has long dominated the Spanish labor movement. He abolished the old laws banning strikes and requiring that only Falangistas hold top trade-union jobs...
...Irish truck driver's son who bubbled up through the Labor Party's ranks to the No. 2 spot like the suds on a pint of warm stout, Brown has been defying the staid frock-coat-and-homburg image of a diplomat ever since he arrived at Whitehall four months ago for his first day of work. While senior foreign officers ceremoniously gathered out front to greet the new man, Brown slipped in the back door and went to work. In what the Daily Mail has called "the hundred hair-raising days" since, Brown has gone about...
Slightly to the left of Brown, Wilson, who needed Brown's support to keep the party together, kept him on as his deputy leader. It was Brown, not Wilson, who carried the brunt of Labor's daily campaigning in the 1964 and 1966 elections, making ten to a dozen speeches a day in town after town. When Labor won in 1964, Brown was given the Department of Economic Affairs, quickly proved the most effective reorganizer the department had seen in years. He was brutal, ruthless and demanding-but he did what had to be done. He developed Labor...
...Shut Up!" His reward was the foreign secretaryship, which he had long coveted. Brown exchanged portfolios with Michael Stewart, who in his nearly two years as Foreign Secretary proved a tough and able diplomat, notably in supporting the U.S. position in Viet Nam against internal Labor Party criticism. Brown has not been on the job long enough to produce any big successes, but he is steadily gaining influence in the Wilson Cabinet. Long the most enthusiastic Laborite supporter of Britain's joining Europe, Brown persuaded an initially reluctant Wilson that it was time to knock on the Common Market...