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time for a change,' said Mr. Butler unemphatically in -a party Political broadcast. He made four main points Which many thought would be the chief planks 111 the Tory platform: retention of the indepen- dent nuclear deterrent, opposition to nationalisa- tion, low taxation and persoval freedom. At the same time the Daily Express Opinion Poll was Predicting a Conservative majority of seventy to eighty, Stock Exchange prices reached their highest ever, The Times dealt at length with sen- sationally bad housing conditions in Glasgow, and the Gold Reserves fell to their lowest for three Years.
Inhappy birthday.
STUART CHRISTIE, an eighteen-year-old Scotsman, ivas sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for ,--arrying explosives after a three-and-a-half-hour .rial before a military tribunal in Madrid. Dennis iliggs. a former South African Liberal, was kid- lapped in Northern Rhodesia and found bound And gagged in South Africa, an embarrassed South African Government agreeing to his release. More South African mercenaries went off to the Congo Ind a new African party was formed in Southern Rhodesia on Monday and banned on Wednesday.
IN AMERICA, Negroes were admitted to white Mississippi schools for the first time, there were riots in Philadelphia, Senator Goldwater said the ountry had 120 foreign policies, but Mr. Robert Kennedy won the New York Democratic nomination for the Senate.
THE CHINESE MAGAZINE Red Flag revealed that there was still a revisionist group high up in the Chinese Party: Mr. Khrushchev went to Prague and met Eastern European Foreign Ministers: Mr. Chavan, the Indian Defence .Minister, went to Moscow: and Denmark is to set up a per- manent UN peace force. Persia is to have pillar boxes like 'ours, while a number of Russians thought incapable of learning any foreign langu- age learned English in their sleep.
ou OBSCENE PUBLICATIONS ACT became law this week after customs officials had seized 202,607 obscene magazines in the first six months of 1964. Meanwhile the Lord Chamberlain's office issued new directives for the wearing of military decorations with evening dress and the BBC has honekt 140 old films from the Paramount library, some of which will go to the new BBC-2. And back to the Tory Boom : Mr. Edward Martell's I'reedom Group announced that Mr. Wilson's s.eat at Huyton was distinctly, vulnerable. One n four of the voters interviewed did not know Mr. Wilson was their MP; most of those who did Were voting Tory.
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