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...moon. Von Braun & Co. supported the lunar orbit plan. As he spoke, the President's scientific adviser, Jerome Wiesner, who had advocated the discarded earth-orbit method, muttered, "No, that's no good." In full view of newsmen and visitors, including Britain's Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft, Wiesner hauled off in sharp attack of the present U.S. plan...
...Defense Minister Harold Watkinson, who has been accused of fatally weakening Britain's armed forces (conscription ended during his tenure of office). His successor: Peter Thorneycroft, 52, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Minister of Aviation, an urbane, acerbic politician who likes to be called a "Tory" because the word is "short, sharp and abusive." - Lord Chancellor Viscount Kilmuir, 62, who for seven years presided over the judiciary. Successor: Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller, Attorney-General, widely nicknamed "Reggie Bullying-Manner." - Sir David Eccles. 57, Education Minister, a publicity-conscious politician who tried to cope with Britain's teacher...
...Transport Licensing Board, Cunard bought up the small Bermuda-Nassau-England Eagle Airways, renamed it Cunard Eagle, ordered itself some expensive jets and pre pared to fly as well as sail the Atlantic. At that point, another agency of the British government objected. Air Minister Peter Thorneycroft vetoed the idea on the ground that the government-owned British Overseas Airways Corp. was already losing money ($36.4 million in 1961) on the route, and would suffer more from the added competition...
Swinging through Asia was Minister of Aviation Peter Thorneycroft. India sends one-third of its exports to Britain, Pakistan one-fifth. Ceylon's tea enters Britain duty-free, but faces a 35% tariff entering the Common Market. Thorneycroft talked for an hour with Nehru, who emerged to note sourly that Britain's entry into the Market "would certainly weaken the Commonwealth." Most Indian businessmen take a more hardheaded view. As India's Economic Times observed: "If the Commonwealth trade preferences which formed the real and tangible advantages of Commonwealth membership did not exist, the Commonwealth itself might...
Filing past out of the chamber, member after member paused to whisper to Thorneycroft, rest a hand on his shoulder or otherwise show their support. Thorneycroft had obviously abandoned neither his hopes of winning his anti-inflationary fight nor his ambitions as a prospective Tory Prime Minister. Last week he advanced both those hopes appreciably. The government carried off the debate by a 62-vote majority, and Peter Thorneycroft voted with his party. But in resigning, Thorneycroft had come close to winning the fight he had lost in the Cabinet. For many of his fellow Tories had voted...