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...Coventry would have given the Tories considerable psychological clout, but not enough to try for a no-confidence vote that might force Wilson to resign and call for new elections. To swing that, the Tories would have to line up all the votes of the 13 Liberals, eleven Scottish and three Welsh nationalists, and the twelve Ulster M.P.s...
...party that currently most troubles Wilson is the Scottish Nationalists. Since the government's tepid proposals for "devolving" more power to the regions merely fanned the Scots' demands for more self-government, the Nationalists are still gaining support. If an election were held now, concedes a Wilson adviser, Labor would lose as many as 15 of its 41 Scottish seats to the Nationalists; the Scots would then hold the balance of power in Parliament...
That is just one more reason for Wilson to put off elections as long as possible -and if he can avoid a vote of noconfidence, he could wait until 1979. By that time, predicts one of his senior Cabinet members, the recovery of the economy should bring Scottish voters back into the Labor fold. It would not be the first time that the waiting game turned to Harold Wilson's profit...
...early life, which is not too unfortunate since Waugh himself has left a brilliant, hilarious account of the first twenty-odd years of his life in a book called A Little Learning. Waugh came from a nexus of English intellectuals--descended from Henry, Lord Cockburn (a very prominent Scottish judge and ancestor of Claud and Alexander Cockburn), and related to Edmund Gosse and Holman Hunt. His father was managing director of a publishing firm which didn't have much to worry about as it owned the Dickens copyright. (This remarkable man gave up holding family prayers when World...
...Hindenburg. As Frank Rich said, if someone spent $15 million to produce this film someone else made off with a haul. The characterizations are so brief as to be virtually non-existent, and George C. Scott hardly has any Scottish lines, much less scenes. The last twenty minutes of disaster footage are okay, but not fantastic. The famous live broadcast by a radio newsman captures the essence of the film in around 30 seconds...