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Harold Wilson's first year as Prime Minister has been a prolonged election campaign--a desperate race to make Labour the party of government in the minds of the British voters before death or sickness cut his slim majority out of power. At no time in that campaign has he appeared stronger than he does now: the pound has steadied and the balance of payments deficit may be halved in 1966. The Daily Telegraph polls show Wilson leading the Conservatives by over 7 1/2 per cent. "He has established himself," one political commentator said last week, "as the Indispensable...
...majority in Commons and solidifies his position within the party. To impose the unpopular restraints which will be necessary for Britain's economic reform, Wilson will need more than a mere three vote margin. He cannot rely on the extraordinary combination of good luck and enthusiasm that enabled Labour to govern in 1965. His backbenchers are tired of the midnight votes and the continual fear of surprise defeat...
...prevent such a unilateral declaration of independence, Britain's governments, first under the Tories and then under Labour, offered to hand over independence if the colonists would guarantee "unimpeded progress toward majority rule." The British then promised strict economic sanctions if Rhodesia went ahead with its unilateral declaration. A freezing of Rhodesian funds in British banks, coupled with a loss of Commonwealth preferences on tobacco and sugar, could have crushing effects on the Rhodesian economy. But since the crops are already sold for this year, and since Rhodesia can expect financial support from racist South Africa, the effects of economic...
Owen attributed the defeat of former Foreign Secretary Patrick Gordon Walker in his Smethwick constituency to prejudice and the effectiveness of the opposition's slogan, "If you want a nigger neighbor, vote Labour...
Maher hopes that a chapter of the Progressive Labour Party will be organized in Boston. "There are a couple of people interested in it. There are also some people in Roxbury and Dorchester who are interested in doing some organized work as Communists." He has no immediate plans, however, to get such a organization started