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...question has lingered: Was there collusion among Britain, France and Israel? At the height of the crisis, Selwyn Lloyd, then British foreign secretary, denied any "prior agreement." Two months later, Prime Minister Anthony Eden denied any "dishonorable conspiracy," even claimed that Britain was unaware that Israel was planning an attack. Washington suspected otherwise, and so did just about everyone else, including British Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell. "We must wait," Gaitskell counseled. "If there was collusion, the motives of the men who practiced it were so various that they are bound to start giving one another away...
Sure enough. A few years later, stories spread of a secret meeting in Sèvres, near Paris, a week before the invasion. Selwyn Lloyd was said to have met French Foreign Minister M. Christian Pineau and Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, and worked out the full invasion plan in advance. Ben-Gurion himself admitted the meeting, and claimed that the three nations discussed the need for British collaboration because Israel wanted to guarantee the destruction of Egypt's air force. Did the British actually agree...
Sometimes a middle-ager finds that meaningful cause in adversity. Four years ago, Lynn Selwyn, now 40, was apathetic, morose, and her marriage was irreparably cracked up. One day, Jeanne Cagney, sister of Jimmy, said to her: "Frustration is the shirking of potentiality." Says Lynn: "In that instant I knew I had to do something with my life, learn how to live without being dependent on someone else...
...inspired the 1965 federal antidiscriminatory legislation on the hiring of older men flourishes, middle-aged men will be rid of the fear they now legitimately have that being fired, or quitting a job after 40, means a long, scary interlude in limbo before getting rehired. Transitional schools like Lynn Selwyn's Everywoman's Village may help reorient women who see their grown children as their epitaph. The cultural explosion will give more middle-agers secondary interests in the arts, those exciting openers of the mind's eye that keep the human horizon from shriveling...
...Speech. To prepare for the wrangles to come, Heath trimmed his shadow Cabinet from 22 to 17 members, scrapping the last vestiges of ex-Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home's influence. Out to the back benches went former Ministers Duncan Sandys (Commonwealth and Colonies), Ernest Marples (Transport), Selwyn Lloyd (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and two others. Lloyd will aid Heath in reorganizing the Conservative Party at its weakest point-in the Labor-eroded northwest...