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...political, hence cultural sovereignty; extremist Labourites fear they will never have a chance to try state Socialism. Since the E.E.C. has decided to abandon its founders' hope for a tight European federation, niether protest is really valid, but there is a strange legitimacy to more moderate British desires. Mr. Macmillan wants, ideally, a loose federation with both Europe and the Commonwealth, for he understandably cannot bear to let the Commonwealth go. It is more than a symbol of past grandeur, it may become a cultural tie between East and West, and Britain more than ever fancies its role as international...
Colman's substitute for the all-important tailback position in his single wing attack could be any one of sophomores Hugh MacMillan and Pete Poreitis, and junior Dave Ibbeken. (After six games, MacMillan is second in rushing behind Riley with 188 yards; Poreitis is second in passing with 154 yards.) MacMillan will probably start...
...class in the Election of 1959 by running on a platform of material prosperity--implying rather crassly that if everyone were well-to-do, everyone's antagonism would disappear. This line has, of course, lost much of its appeal since Selwyn Lloyd's austere economic reforms, and Mr. Macmillan (who has grown vaguer and vaguer in the last two years) was content at the Brighton conference to substitute for "prosperity" a few irritating cliches about a "unified Britain...
...other question with which the conferences significantly did not deal is that of Britain's entrance into the Common Market. Both parties, in fact, appear to think that the electorate couldn't care less about the Common Market. At Brighton, Mr. Macmillan mentioned neither that the Government had been shockingly hesitant and inconsistent about applying for membership in the E.E.C. nor even that Britain could not join without sacrificing to some degree Commonwealth relations. At Blackpool, Labour refused to come to any decision at all; resolutions for and against were tabled rapidly, and there...
...issues of class and of the Common Market will both affect the electorate profoundly, but of all the party leaders, Mr. Gaitskell alone seems to be aware of it. Mr. Macmillan retreats inscrutably into Downing Street; Jo Grimond of the Liberals congratulates himself on the results of by-elections, tears down the other parties, and constructs a preposterous domestic platform. "Nice people, the British," Mr. Gaitskell imagined other nations saying shortly, "easy-going, kindly, tolerant; they have had a glorious past. The only trouble is their stagnation--somehow they have lost out, lost their dynamic." His is a very palpable...