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...once graphic and authentic, has ever been given. It is said to be something like a rather disorderly board of directors, where many speak and few listen--though no one knows." A century later, the situation had not changed. Richard Crossman--Oxford don, psychological warfare chief, Labour M.P. and editor of The New Statesman--complained of "how little is normally revealed of what goes on in the modern Cabinet, and how much information is available about these secret proceedings, if only someone who knows the truth can be stimulated to divulge...
...following year Crossman was thus "stimulated" when he joined the Cabinet himself. For the next six years, until Harold Wilson's Labour government was unexpectedly turned out of office in 1970, Crossman learned about Cabinet government from the inside. His conclusion--after serving successively as Minister of Housing, Lord President of the Council, Majority Leader in the House of Commons and Secretary of State for Social Services--was that the Cabinet had little effective power and that Britain had drifted into a "Prime Ministerial" form of government. Crossman presented these views in his 1970 Godkin lectures at Harvard, which...
...WORK AND LEISURE. Great labour, either of mind or body, continued for several days together . . . requires to be relieved by some indulgence, sometimes of ease only, but sometimes too of dissipation and diversion. If it is not complied with, the consequences are often dangerous, and sometimes fatal...
...Dept. of Labour and Industry
...used the poll which was featured by The New York Times in its pre-election coverage. Mr. Lieber, of course, is entirely right in correcting the figure I cited for the SNP, and I apologize for the error. But his third point, like his first, is one of interpretation--Labour was officially anti-Common Market and should a referendum be held, I would expect the party to strongly recommend British withdrawal. Mr. Lieber's fourth point is certainly his weakest. As in the U.S., British political parties espouse official platforms and Labour's 1974 platform does represent a militant swing...