Foreign News: Hinch in a Pinch

Someone must have made a mistake. Anyhow, tall, tactless Viscount Hinching-brooke, 39-year-old Tory M.P. for South Dorset, was invited to open National Savings Week in seaside Swanage. The Viscount did not say what he was supposed to say on such an occasion—quite the opposite. Cried he: "If the appeal to you . . . is national savings for the nationalization of the mines, my counsel to you is to reject it. If the appeal is national savings for a state-owned merchant marine or inland transport system or medical service, I would turn it down. I...

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