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...used to quick ascents. The child of schoolteachers, he managed to get to Cambridge and became a professor (of Greek) at Australia's University of Sydney when he was only 25. During World War II, he rose from private to brigadier, and he won a seat in Parliament when he was 38. In 1968, in what became known as his "River of Blood" speech, Powell first brought Britain's race question out of the limbo to which other politicians had tacitly consigned it. The Nationality Act, he argued, was flooding London and Midlands ghettos with Indian, Pakistani, African...
...recruits in a decade: an estimated 600 to 1,000 student leftists who fled Bangkok and began training in "liberated" zones and in neighboring Laos. It also polarized Thai politics. "Before the coup," says one Thai counterinsurgency expert, "there were four channels open to anyone with a complaint: Parliament, the newspapers, government officials and the Communists. Now there are only two: the government or the guerrillas...
...E.S.T.), on PBS. Hampshire is only one of many reasons to watch The Pallisers. In the grand tradition of The Forsyte Saga and Upstairs, Downstairs, the series is elegant, historical soap opera, complete with duels, lecherous dukes, love lost and found, intrigue in the Houses of Parliament, exquisitely smart costumes and roman tic settings amid the topiary...
Eden was similarly precocious in politics: he won a seat in Parliament at 26, became Lord Privy Seal at 34, Minister for League of Nations Affairs at 37 and Foreign Secretary less than a year later. As Foreign Secretary from 1935 to 1938, he raced to get ahead of the swiftly moving events in a radically changing Europe: the resurgence of Germany under Hitler, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), and the Spanish civil...
...Dirty Linen, a topical headline scandal has caught Stoppard's fancy. A campaign of sinnuendo has been launched in the British press implying that almost all the Members of Parliament are guilty of illicit sexual hanky-panky. A select committee of the House of Commons has been appointed to investigate the charges...