European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 Thi Stah and Stoks monday july 22, 1mi ruling tories search for ways to transform Outlook British regime out of touch with rising generations by Arthur i Oaks Hon London a sadly the prime minister of great Britain confessed i do not move among Young people the 63-year-old Harold Mac Mullan was defending his handling of the John Profumo scan dal in mid june when he uttered those Giveaway words. Sex War minister Profumo s Hal xon Ullh the Call girl Lover of soviet Diplomat was the Moat sen National of n Sergei of resounding political diplomatic and Security disasters which lately Hove hot the conservative government and admitted Lorn of touch with youth nerved to dramatic. The plight not Only of i government but Alito of the nation. For after 12 years of Power tory leaders today acknowledge they simply Are not with the changing mood of the country s rising generations. This realization hns touched off a searching urgent study of Way drastically to transform the out look policy and even leadership of the ruling tories. Time is no longer on our Side Reginald mud Tang. Chancellor of the � exchequer warned recently. Maudling. 4b, in widely Iivo Rcd As u successor to , opposition in borates after 12 years in the wilderness Are stressing that Tor the firs time in us modern history Britain is lagging behind the pacemakers in a space age world. For britons of All parties this is a painful reminder. A tradition of Radical Ideal ism make u easy for labor chiefs to inject a Heady Blead of new Frontier Pep talk in tha Al Jon they offer of a Britain re urgent their program Shea off hour test Dogma and Ina cad underline Valum with a Nice lacing of purposeful a onanism. It s one thing for a politician to know he i not with a mood or s quit another thing to understand precisely what that mood to a atoll something else again when the people he s hop ing to Appeal to Are themselves earthing and groping towards a new world role or destiny. That today is what a lot of the Fuu and confusion and a neutering is about in British political affair this is a land still Rich in Talent. Ideas Energy Purpe. It scientists researchers Labora tories workshop Lead the world in Tome Field. At the Center of the Globe girdling Commonwealth system British Money still finances one third of the world s Trade. British political practice Sand human value flourish far beyond the Queen realm. In the Shantytown of Africa and the lick Clytle of Europe snob Itell copy the Dreu and social be Haylor of what they take to be the English Gentry. Vitality and creativeness in pc not disappeared from English writing painting sculpture or music. Yet a curious malaise seems to hang Over a lot of the ones think Back to times of Imperial splendor. Others tired of tory 1"1, scared of social ism seem to be search ing for a Middle Way cause which the Smalt Liberal party Hopes to provide. Yet others give an impression of rebelliousness and frustration and pack the Street at the drop of a nonconformist or leftist hat As during the re cent greek Royal visit. There s no simple explanation philippine Little Power in re cent Yean have been tweaking the British lion Tail. And proud briton aware of old glories have simply stood and stared an swallowed in frustration. In this situation there seemed to be a double significance in the Profumo affair on the moral plane it let Loose flood of emotion somewhat like that which swirled during the 1030 abdication crisis. The Shockon both occasion left the British political system shuddering. On the political plane it capped series of policy setback that have rent tory electoral fortunes already Low to the depth. Promo minister Harold Ziac Maluan. 7 do not mow among Young people for All this beyond the Stark real ties. The British were among the Victor of world War ii but in the process lost much of their treasure. What Hurt was the sight of former enemies getting along really Well. Britain has transformed it Empire into a Commonwealth since the War but several of its former charges nowadays Are Ruder to London than to Moscow. The nation sought to link up with the Continental allies in the european common Market but French president Charles Degaulle vetoed the bid on ground that the British Aren t mature enough. Finally around the Globe from Egypt through the Congo to the the tories ousted Britain postwar labor government from office in 1951 shortly before a new Queen began her reign. Since then successive tory govern ments have tried to re create anew elizabethan age of National Prosperity and Power. They turned their backs on the austerity imposed by Laborte dedicated to the proposition of fair share society. They dismantled labor s mosaic of controls from food rationing to financial management. They followed a right Wing course in foreign Fields. In a period of affluence they maintained the nation had never had it so yet he National performance never quite matched the tory Promise. The country s Stop go Economy still falter behind some of its chief trading rivals. The government whittled away at some of the pillars of the welfare state by imposing charges on the hitherto few National health service and cutting food subsidies. Unemployment fluctuated with the seasons until last Winter it hit a postwar Peak of nearly a million. Mac flan brushing aside de sense policy failures has insist Don trying to preserve a posture of British Power through the medium of an Independent nuclear strike Force which rests onit delivery system made in Amer Ica. There have been serious Imperial Cruse in Central Africa and East Africa. On top of u Trail of espionage cases has Dis closed alarming weaknesses inthe nation s Security service which Macmillan himself directs. In this situation All the signs measurable by pollsters and Pun Dit Point to a runaway Victory by the Labort tos whose Leader Harold Wilson at 46, is Young enough to be Macmillan s son. Age apart there Are other con Trast Between Macmillan and Wilton which symbolize the Dif Ference Between the movement they Lead. Macmillan s edwardian a Ermnee from the. Talpa of Hla Uhl Nysoe to the top of Hla Well in Uther head Naeema to come out of a textbook. Tha Mahln list and beat brushed thing about Wilma a garb Are his workaday off the Peg Sultan which fit when they touch and which he wears like badge. The prime minister smoke cigars like a patrician. Wilson puffs a pipe. But the two men and their Par ties share one thing and that is the Job of facing the electorate soon with the historic lit sup of the 19gos How to make Britain great and modern again. Under the Constitution the prime minister of the Day can pick his own moment for an elec Tion provided it s within five years of his government s elec Tion. Marm Lllan s deadline i october 1964. Wilson who has a mind like computer is ready with the an Swers for most of Che big issues of the Day. Some highlights Ingabor s program especially a they affect thl noted Stales on nationalization Labo would impose state control of the steel Industry Road transportation and All water a linkup with Europe Wilson is open minded about try Good fairy s losing her putt Iowa City Iowa a. . 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