GREAT BRITAIN: Lion Caged

On a hot Saturday afternoon, when most government ministers and their staffs had scattered for the traditional long weekend, a sparse announcement issued from No. 10 Downing St.:

"In consequence of the attached medical report, the Prime Minister, after consultation with the President of the United States and the French Prime Minister, has postponed the Bermuda conference."

"At Least a Month." The attached medical report, signed by the old P.M.'s own medical adviser. Lord Moran, and by Sir Russell Brain, Harley Street neurologist and president of the Royal College of Physicians, was short...

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