On the upswing in British public life today is tall, trim-mustached Major Herwald Ramsbotham (pronounced Rams-bottom), Minister of Pensions, who wears behind his icy monocle an engaging twinkle. He became active last year as an oratorical scout, reconnoitring British public opinion in advance of the isolationist policies formally adopted by His Majesty's Government last week . In his preliminary skirmishes last year handsome Major Ramsbotham, the epitome of a British officer with a gallant War record, characteristically declared:
"We cannot become the universal policeman and patrol all the back streets of Europe...
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