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...Bournemouth Tories confidently elected to Parliament Publisher Nigel Nicolson, son of British Authors Sir Harold Nicolson and Victoria Sackville-West. Tory Nicolson, 42, has all the proper caste marks (Eton, Oxford, Grenadier Guards), but he also likes to think for himself. First he expressed his opposition to capital punishment, for which some of Bournemouth's retired officers and wealthy widows have never forgiven him. Worst of all, Backbencher Tory Nicolson publicly criticized Sir Anthony Eden's Suez invasion. Outraged, local Tory leaders formally forbade members of the local party to have any contact with him, and pointedly announced...
...Tory brass of Bournemouth sank into deeper trouble. Major Friend, they learned, was in close cahoots with the League of Empire Loyalists, a quasi-fascist group that recently heckled Tory Prime Minister Harold Macmillan himself. Friend, it turned out, had written letters arranging that every time Nigel Nicolson tried to hold a meeting, the Loyalists would break it up with their heckling and roughhousing. Unhappily, the Bournemouth East Conservative Association accepted Major Friend's withdrawal...
...they were still as hostile as ever to Nicolson, whose reputation in staid Bournemouth had not been enhanced by news that his firm, after other proper English publishers had turned it down, was about to publish the British edition of Lolita...
...their hero than at the brutal and relentless way Aldington sought to reduce Lawrence's reputation to nothingness. "It is as if someone were to describe Shakespeare's atrocious table manners at the Mermaid tavern, while omitting to mention that he also wrote plays," said Historian Harold Nicolson, who admitted to his own prejudice against Lawrence. "A mere mass of faults, however competently exposed," said Lawrence's onetime superior, Sir Ronald Storrs, "adds up not to a portrait but to a post mortem-the portrait of a hero on the dissecting table...
King George the Fifth, by Harold Nicolson. A masterful political biography (TIME, June...