GREAT BRITAIN: Cabinet Shuffle

A few nights before Parliament reconvened last week, Captain the Right Honourable David Margesson, M. P., Conservative Party Whip, found himself in a very tight spot. Weekending at the Sussex house of his friend. Transport Minister Euan Wallace, Captain Margesson retired about midnight to his bedroom in an otherwise unoccupied wing. In the bed room was a cupboard (containing a washstand) equipped with an automatic light switch. When the door was open, the light was on; when closed, the light was out —or at least it was supposed to be. Captain Margesson, impelled...

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