Instant Government No one, I think, is a more acute
observer of contemporary British life than Mr. John Crosby, of the New York Herald-Tribune. Whether he comments on the dazzling plumage of Chelsea birds or what was really said in his local when Churchill died, he always gives one the impression that he sees the British as 010 really are, and not as they like to see themselves. And nowhere, I think, was he more acute than when one day last week he turned his cold c)c on Mr. Wilson :
Wilson inherited nothing more serious than a sluggish economy which he rapidly built into a crisis of confidence by exaggerating it as a device to discredit the Conservative Party.. • Despite Labor's and especially Mr. Wilson S• predilection for plans, for planning, for a, planned society, and a planned economy, no goverment on this island or anywhere else, seems to have come to power with so few plans. Mr• Wilson's administration in its first hundred days has been called . . . instant government. .
Obviously, here's someone who's managed to avoid the whole miasma of 'managed' news . • •
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