From the solicitous reception he got from the New Frontier, the little cold-eyed man who stepped off the airliner in Washington might have been Britain's Prime Minister rather than the Opposition leader. Even in his own Labor Party six months ago. pipe-puffing Harold Wilson was regarded as a slippery opportunist and a constant threat to the party's hard-won unity under the late Hugh Gaitskell. Though his views on most major issues were calculatedly murky, "Little Harold," as his foes call him, drew left-wing support by condemning U.S. handling of Cuba, cheering on the unilateralists, bitterly opposing Britain's bid for...
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