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March 31. Ironically, the most telling attack on the new policy came not from the Conservatives but from a Laborite, Christopher Mayhew, who resigned in protest as Navy Minister. The $5.6 billion budget, warned Mayhew, was "too small if we stay east of Suez and too big if we do not." Though he had quit specifically over the carrier question, he told the House that his far greater fear was that Britain simply could no longer support its worldwide defense responsibilities unless it depended so heavily on U.S. assistance that the British would become "auxiliaries rather than allies...
...Despite Mayhew's criticism, the new defense policy caused fewer political ripples than the Prime Minister had feared. Though many Empire-minded Britons were shocked by the cutbacks, their reaction was more than offset by the millions of British who feel that a vigorous hold-down on defense spending is long overdue. Thus Wilson returned to London to find his political house quite in order. The best speculation was that he would call a general election for March...
Lions & Goats. "Organized bands entering city," Hoyt observed laconically as the battle began. "Firing into air and possibly on consulate. Just saw Congolese in tattered dress, presume Popular Army." As the rebels pushed past the consulate, he sent USIA Officer Philip R. Mayhew, 29, off on a "successful, courageous dash" to the airport with two American girl tourists. The firing intensified, and Hoyt messaged: "Pole shot and rope cut by gunfire, but consulate flag still flying." At one point, rebels actually broke into the consulate, and Hoyt prudently retired with his four assistants to the "strong room," leaving a bottle...
...Awards for urban research next year to honor the late Samuel Stouffer, professor of Sociology, have been made to two MIT students and two members of the GSAS. The Harvard recipients are Leon H. Mayhew (Social Relations) and Stephan A. Thernstrom (History). The Stouffer Fellows will complete research at the Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies
...assembled and working Ford in his room. Another senior found an assembled cement mixer, and still another bumped into a meteorological balloon that stretched from floor to ceiling and from wall to wall-completely filled with water. Even dance decorations may inspire the young scientific mind. Once Dr. George Mayhew, general panjandrum of student affairs, picked up the phone and heard a voice ask: "Dr. Mayhew, did you give permission for a 57-foot rocket to be built by Ricketts House...