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CHAOS AND NIGHT by Henry de Montherlant. 240 pages. Macmillan...
...Coop charges $5.50 for MacMillan's Smith translation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. It is available at Mandrake...
Personalities. The Tories suffered particularly painful embarrassment in the defeat of several of their Cabinet members: ex-Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's son Maurice, who was Economic Secretary to the Treasury, lost in Halifax; Postmaster-General Reginald Bevins was beaten in Liverpool; Health Minister Anthony Barber fell at Doncaster; and Geoffrey Rippon, Minister of Works, was defeated at Norwich. But Labor had a bad local setback too. Patrick Gordon Walker, slated to be Foreign Secretary, was beaten in his constituency of Smethwick, a part of Birmingham where the race issue is raging because of heavy immigration by West Indians...
...Home has been unable to make himself heard over angry jeers. The hecklers have reintroduced the excitement and bitterness that have been missing for several months. During August and September, apathy dominated the campaign, as Britain enjoyed the kind of extraordinarily fine weather and general prosperity which preceded Harold Macmillan's great Tory victory in the fall...
Only two years ago, the long-eclipsed party of Asquith and Lloyd George seemed to many Britons a bright potential alternative to the tired Tory government of Harold Macmillan and the faction-torn Labor Party of Hugh Gaitskell. But as elections neared and both major parties closed ranks under new leaders, the Liberal "resurgence" ingloriously petered out. When Britons go to the polls Oct. 15, they will probably elect no more than seven of some 365 Liberal candidates...