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...Although Macmillan has systematically eliminated rivals by giving them thankless tasks or sacking them, the Tories have a number of highly plausible successors. Currently in the lead (Daily Express odds: 4-7) is Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling, who is youthful (46) and ready to take credit for a predicted economic spurt this summer. He is also happily married, a particularly useful qualification right now. Next are Deputy Prime Minister "Rab" Butler (2-1), who has all the necessary experience, but at 60 may have been around too long; and Lord Hailsham, bellicose, blimpish Science Minister, 55, whose hopes...
...power than they have at any time in the last dozen years. At week's end Harold Wilson returned to the attack in the Commons, demanding an investigation of the Profumo case by a parliamentary select committee with sweeping powers. The more limited judicial inquiry proposed by Macmillan, cried Wilson, was merely "a cover-up," because, without authority to compel proof or the attendance of witnesses, it would have to collect evidence "from some of the most unmitigated liars in this country...
Were there any more revelations to come? Wilson wanted to know. Nothing he knew of right now, said Macmillan, but he added: "I have heard terrible things said of all sorts of people." The most authoritative source of all, Christine herself, volunteered: "Apart from those I have already mentioned in my story, I do not know and have not met any ministers...
...Macmillan recovered his composure. "They have deeply wounded me," he told a Tory rally, adding: "It will not break my spirit." But the House still remembered the words of Tory Rebel Nigel Birch, who during the big debate had quoted Browning's The Lost Leader at Harold Macmillan...
...Where last week he was expelled from the Communist Party, dismissed from the intelligence service, and sent to a mental hospital. * When John Vassall, a homosexual Admiralty clerk, was convicted last October of spying for the Russians, Macmillan summarily fired the clerk's superior, Thomas Galbraith, who had written the clerk some letters starting "My dear Vassall." Galbraith was later wholly exonerated. * Though possibly not in Britain, where Tropic of Cancer has been a bestseller for months and the unexpurgated Lady Chatterley's Lover has sold 3,500,000 paperback copies...