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...planes leaving for Tokyo . . . The ships sailing for Liverpool...
...there was little to encourage Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservatives in the outcome of 401 local borough elections. With 2,973 seats at stake, the Tories lost a total of 550; the Labor Party gained 544, winning control of local governments in such major cities as Leicester, Liverpool, Bradford, Bristol and Nottingham. Labor officials claimed that if a general election were held tomorrow, they would return to power with a margin of 90 to 130 seats...
Died. Herbert Louis Samuel, 92, British statesman and philosopher. First Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and of Toxteth, Liverpool, a lifelong Liberal who served his country in posts ranging from Home Secretary to Postmaster General; in London. He proudly called himself "the first member of the Jewish community" to enter the British Cabinet, and after working with Chaim Weizmann to achieve the Balfour Declaration, became Britain's first High Commissioner to Palestine from 1920-25. There, inheriting the disorder of a sleepy outpost of the fallen Ottoman Empire, he put aside his personal feelings as a Jew, ruled...
During the uproar, the British government refrained from throwing more oil on the fire. In a major speech at Liverpool, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan answered the Gaullist criticism that Britain had "special ties" with the U.S. and the Commonwealth by pointing out that France also retained special ties with its former colonies. He argued cogently that in the second half of this century no one free nation could seek to dominate other free nations, adding: "Nor can any country in these days stand entirely on its own. Alliances are essential to security." Britain would continue the patient struggle...
Died. William Cardinal Godfrey, 73, Archbishop of Westminster and leader since 1958 of the 5,000,000 Roman Catholics in England and Wales, a Liverpool trucker's son known for his vigorously sharp attacks on what he considered Britain's declining morality and a bitter foe of those "disciples of despair'' who advocate artificial birth control; of a heart attack; in London...