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...below the Labor mark of two years ago. Biggest gainers were the third-party Liberals, who entered their first candidate since 1950, polled 20% of the total vote. Pointing to similar gains in other recent contests, Liberals talked hopefully of a big parliamentary comeback for the party of Gladstone, Palmerston and Lloyd George. More probably, the apparent Liberal strength reflected simple voter dissatisfaction with both the government's failure to hold down the cost of living and Labor's alternative of selective controls-a petulance more readily indulged in in by-elections than in the decisive general election...
...fellow that flogged the women, is it!'" A flying squad of police finally dragged him, bloody and beaten, to the safety of a police boat, and, "in the course of Friday night he took his leave" -much to the private delight of Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston...
Passion for Politics. The House of Commons that afternoon hummed with anticipation. The benches were packed tight, but on the government front bench no one sat in the place that in times past has been filled by Walpole, Chatham and Pitt, Wellington, Peel, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone and Churchill. Then, in the middle of question time, Britain's 43rd Prime Minister quickly picked his way over the outstretched feet of his sprawling ministers and subsided into Churchill's seat. The House cheered...
...Thus, for the first time in history, two commoners in one government wear the Garter. Others, in past times: Walpole, Castlereagh, Palmerston, Balfour, Edward Grey, Neville Chamberlain...
During the four years since Britain recognized Red China, the British charge d'affaires in Peking suffered the kind of humiliation that a century ago would have led Lord Palmerston to dispatch a gunboat. The top Communist brass snubbed him; their juniors let him cool his heels in anterooms. His mission consisted largely of trying to free Britons who had been clapped in jail by Mao Tse-tung, and trying to get compensation for British firms whose assets had been expropriated by the Reds. The Communists never bothered to send diplomatic representation to London...