ABSTRACT
This hectic pace is well captured in Wilson’s record of his preoccupations during the Whit recess of 1967: a dozen speeches on assorted subjects around the country; day and night meetings on international tariff reduction negotiations; riots and strikes in Hong Kong; the collapse of negotiations in Aden leading to replacement of the High Commissioner; renewed conflict with Spain over Gibraltar; talks with King Faisal of Saudi Arabia; a series of trade union conferences decrying the government’s pay policy; trouble over the third London airport; problems with de Gaulle over Britain’s EC application; and a campaign against the clampdown on pirate radio stations (Wilson 1971). Life has become no quieter since then. As Macmillan said, ‘Events’.
