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Please forgive a correction from "the guru of British pedigree" (your words about us), but your informant J. Charles Thompson was not 100% correct in telling you that only eldest sons of eldest sons inherit coats of arms. By English, Welsh and Irish heraldic law, younger sons and their younger sons do too-the qualification is legitimate male-line descent from the original man entitled to the arms...
...human expression." Not a word from Terkel, wondering whether those systems are not perhaps products of human expression. On the evidence of Talking to Myself, Terkel has rarely sought out people who actually run things. An indefatigable romantic, he prefers the "mute, inglorious Miltons" among the underdogs: the Welsh miner with a taste for the impressionists, the Cockney waitress with a Bruegel print on her wall, the Swedish miner who quotes Gibbon. Terkel is moved by what he takes to be the oppression of such people. As he presents them, though, they seem to be doing very nicely indeed...
...legislative program in order to push such Liberal pet policies as devolution for Scotland and proportional balloting in the election of deputies to the European Assembly. With the votes of the 13 Liberal M.P.s, Callaghan's Laborites were able to defeat the opposition-Tories, Scottish and Welsh nationalists, some Ulster Unionists and a sprinkling of other minor parties-by a margin...
...Commons whittled by death, resignation and lost by-elections to an overall minority of nine. Still, with his party holding a 32-vote edge over the Tories, Callaghan's only fear was the kind of catalytic issue that would unite the Conservatives with the congeries of Scottish and Welsh Nationalists, Liberals, Ulster Unionists and splinter M.P.s who hold the balance of power...
...argument that masked Thatcher's aim of forcing elections now, while the Tories are 16 points ahead of Labor in opinion polls. Liberal M.P.s also raised questions. Translation: Liberal Party Leader David Steel wants a larger voice in government decisions for his 13-member delegation. Scottish and Welsh Nationalists, annoyed by Labor's fumble last month on a devolution bill that would grant regional assemblies for their areas, are itching to topple Callaghan...