Word: macleods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Delayed Glory. Something of a disappointment also awaited brilliant but unreliable Iain Macleod, still a hero of the Tory youth organizations and leader of a dedicated group of backbenchers in the Commons. Home decided to leave Macleod in the secondary role as chief Tory strategist against Labor's proposed nationalization of the steel industry. Since the Laborites are not expected to press for nationalization soon-with their three-vote margin they can scarcely expect to carry the measure-Macleod is not likely for some time to have a chance for combat or glory...
...poll showing 68% of all Britons to be in favor of some curbs on immigration-Wilson's Labor government voted to renew the same immigration law it had fought so vigorously in 1961. Kicking off the Tories' campaign against Gordon Walker in Leyton, former Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod chortled, "I welcome, though I despise, Mr. Gordon Walker's abandonment of a cause he advocated so fiercely such a short time...
...bill was a "private member's motion," introduced by Pacifist Sydney Silverman, 69, a Labor M.P. who has fought against the gallows for nearly 30 years. The Conservative Party in the past has opposed abolition, but much support for the bill came from such Tory chiefs as Iain Macleod, Sir Derek Walker-Smith and ex-Home Secretary Henry Brooke. And the voting was "free." M.P.s voted at the urging of their conscience, not as their party dictated...
...late, British officials scurried across the Continent to plead their government's case-resembling, in former Tory Party Leader Iain Macleod's withering phrase, "doves sent out from the Ark to tell people that Noah's sorry it's raining." Even so, hardheaded foreign bankers might have waited for Noah to reach dry land if there had been any real sign that the government was coming to grips with Britain's basic economic ills. On the contrary, Wilson clearly assigned priority to expanded welfare statism that Britain can patently ill afford. He also insisted...
Ends: Tom Clarke and Bob Macleod, Dartmouth; Bob Seiple, Brown; Harvey Rubin, Columbia; Steve Lawrence and Dan O'Grady, Yale; Dick Williams, Cornell; James Hackett, Princeton...