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...prominent English statesman called Jamaica an "imperial slum...
There are those who will say that relegation to a Senate seat is nothing to cry about. That's not the point. "Goodie" Knight is not a statesman; he will be lonely in Eisenhower's Washington. His political passing is merely a footnote to an age of rigid necessities. The good-natured clown is gone, and the artifice of design...
Bevan, who is the last important Western statesman to have visited Nikita Khrushchev, said that the Communist party leader "'seemed to me very much like many of the high-ranking executives I met in the United States...
...Royal Soap Opera." Timed for the visit, major articles reflecting British criticism of the monarchy broke in the Satevepost ("Does England Really Need a Queen?") and Look (a tired rehash called "Queen Elizabeth . . . Her Poor Public Relations"). The Satevepost (that "notoriously conformist family magazine," pouted London's New Statesman) stirred up a stew in the British press, notably for its author, former Punch Editor Malcolm Muggeridge, who got the assignment long before the Queen's visit was planned. He described the inhabitants of Buckingham Palace as characters in "a royal soap opera," urged that the institution be refurbished...
...Just the man to revive Conservative enthusiasm," acknowledged the left-wing New Statesman. But the Economist thought the appointment "a mistake," forecasting that so robust and ambitious a spokesman would tend to report not what the constituencies want but "what he personally thinks they ought to want." Either way, Hailsham would soon be heard from, doing his provocative utmost to arrest what he calls "a fall in the tone of public controversy...