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Unlike the Labor Party, the Tories hold no formal elections to choose a leader. Instead, their party officials, senior ministers and elder statesmen go through an elaborate, private process of divination aimed at reaching what is euphemistically called "the consensus" of the party; when they have settled on a candidate who is acceptable to both Cabinet and parliamentary party and looks like a vote getter to boot, the name is presented for routine approval to the Queen. Thus Macmillan's successor will probably not be announced until after Parliament reconvenes Oct. 24 and the Prime Minister formally resigns...
...adopted Alabamian of ten years, I hardly recognized your description of the beautiful state of Alabama, created by God just as the other 49. We as a nation build on our past heritage, and we as Alabamians have contributed our share of educators, statesmen and N.A.A.C.P. leaders...
...United Nations is the Capistrano of diplomacy. In their swallow-tailed coats, the key statesmen of member na tions swoop into New York each fall for the opening sessions of the General Assembly. This year some 77 foreign ministers and heads of government on hand presented a collection of rare dip lomatic birds unmatched in variety and political color...
...gathering also presented an ir resistible opportunity to U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who gathered up his position papers and 33 aides, and shifted his headquarters from Foggy Bottom to the U.S. mission building, across from the U.N., for nine days of talks with some 70 visiting statesmen...
...duplicate the U.N. talks by per sonal visits to all the capitals of the statesmen he was seeing would have re quired a three-month, globe-girdling tour. And though the schedule was jampacked, permitting never more than an hour per visit, it was the perfect format for Rusk, who is at his best in private diplomatic conversation. Rusk relied on his encyclopedic knowledge of world af fairs, lots of coffee, an occasional drink of Scotch, and two packs of Chester fields a day to get him through the polyglot, problem-laden week...