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Bv PETER KNOX
United Press Inlernalional
London -OTI- Harold Wil
ton's appointment as leader
of the opposition Labor party
last Feb. 14 waa a contro
versial one. Nearly bait bit
fellow MP's voted against
him, the press was lukewarm
and the public largely lndif-
f erent. -
Now, tlx month! later, al
. though he remains something
i of an unknown quantity, even
hit political enemies admit
the wheel of fortune has
' turned kindly for the 47-year
old. pipe-smoking Wilson.
The party appears to have
' nnltm firmlv under hit com-
' mand, public opinion polls
' and by-eiecuona nave inuwu
,' Labor it enjoying a run of
- high popularity, and the press
generally has accepted him as
a success.
Wilson has been helped by
that minfortunes of the Con
servative eovernment of
Prim Minister Harold Mac
millan. Its troubles this year
over tecurity, the common
, market, the Profumo scandal
and racketeering! in slum
properties have given Labor
' ready-made ammunition wun
which to go on the attack
Atmosphere Right
This was the type of po
litical atmosphere that Wilson
needed to consolidate his po
sition. With signs for a Labor
election victory to favorable
not even anti-Wilson Laborites
are in any mood to rock the
boat.
When he stepped Into the
leadership in succession to
Hugh Gaitskell, who died in
office in January, Wilson
knew the task ahead of him
was formidable.
Gaitskell's reign over the
party for eight years had
been characterized by bitter
fighting between left and
right-wing factions, with Gait
skell right of center and Wil
son left of it. One blazing row
over unilateral disarmament
had nearly wrecked its unity.
Gaitskell, largely by the
force of his personality, man
aged to weld the party to
gether in 1962 in preparation
for the approaching general
elections expected this year
or early next.
rears Widespread
When Gaitskell died there
were widespread fears that
the old splits would break
wide open again. These were
heightened when Wilson ran
for the leadership against the
man who had been GaltakeU's
deputy, George Brown,
- Brown, a right-winger, had
the support of a solid bloc of
loo trade unionists among tnt
party's 140 voting M.P.'s.
These men mad no secret
of their opposition to Wilson
because of his record Inside
the party. They suspected his
past flirtations with the left,
and had doubts about his po
litical reliability.
. Wilson, a man of humble
background who had won
enough scholarships to pay his
way through school and Ox-
Four American
Copiers Crash in
South Viel Ham
Saigon -TOTO- Four U. S.
Army helicopters crashed in
the Communist-infested Jun
gles of South Viet Nam Wed
. nesday, but all their crewmen
were rescued and none of the
machines fell Into Red hands,
military sources said today.
' One of the 'copters is
known to have been shot
down by the Communists. The
other crashes were ascribed
to "engine failure."
Observer Weunded
A Vietnamese observer in
one of the helicopters was
slightly wounded in a gun
fight with Red guerrillas who
vtrled to block the crew's es
cape. No American casualties
were reported.
The Vietnamese was one of
' four men In a "Huev" hell-
copter armed with machine
guns and rockets which crash
ed five miles north of the
town of Ben Cat. The two
American pilots and the crew
cruel of the 'copter atripped
it of weapons, and all four
fought their way to safety.
A rescue helicopter picked
them up in a nearby clearing,
The "Huey," damaged be
yond repair, was destroyed
after everything usable had
been removed from it.
Others Recoverable
Two H21 troop-carrier heli
copters, flying protective cov
er for the downed "Huey,"
also crashed. None of their
crewmen was injured, and
both 'copters proved recover
able. Another H21 was shot down
by the Reds about 30 miles
south of Banmethout in the
central highlands. The crew
landed safely and was rescued
unhurt, and the 'copter will
be repaired and flown out
later.
Parkistan has deposits of
coal, oil and minerals.
ford university and emerge as
a lecturer in economics, had
become a cabinet minister
under Clement Attlee in 1947
at the age of 31.
In 1951, however, he walk
ed out of the cabinet together
with the radical Aneurin
Bevan in a row over the Na
tional Health Plan. This ac
tion got him tabbed as a mili
tant and he had a long hard
climb to get back into the
center of the party.
Not Close To Leader
It was against Wilson, too,
that he had never been very
close to Gaitskell, or the so-
called Galtskellites who domi
nated the parliamentary com
mittee of the party.
In his six months in office
Wilson has been careful to
avoid controversial state
ments or actions. This ex
plains lingering doubt wheth
er he is a man of firm convic
tion or more of an astute
politician.
With only minor changes
he has kept together the same
team of front bench spokes
men that had served under
Gaitskell. Where he did ap
point new men he did not
favor left or right.
Wilson has made it clear
that he means no break in
continuing the policy evolved
by Gaitskell.
The two big internal Issues
that troubled Gaitskell were
the fight over unilateral dis
armament and the extent to
which the party should en
courage greater nationaliza
tion of industries.
The former problem has be
come rather outdated. With a
general election looming, the
latter is little spoken of. La
bor M.P.'s believe they have
a good chance of winning and
they don't want to frighten
. tin it m
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II jtrr. ''till! a
off potential middle class sup.
porters with talk of socializa
tion. Sensing the mood of the
nation, Wilson has been play
ing it cool.
In television appearances
giving party political broad
casts he has projected the
image of a quiet family man.
Inside the party his tactics
have been similar. In meet
ings of the "shadow cabinet"
(as the inner group of par
liamentary Labor leaders is
called) he has adopted the
committee method favored by
Attlee.
In the past six months he
has visited President Kennedy
in Washington and Prime
Minister Nikita Khrushchev
in Moscow. Both men accord
ed him V.I.P. treatment as a
potential British prime min
ister. Raised Eyebrows
Inevitably, Wilson's a I x
months in office have not
been entirely free of criti
cism. His decision last month
not to attend the banquet for
the controversial Greek royal
visit on the grounds of a prior
engagement caused some rais
ed eyebrows: Conservatives
resented his harrying of Mac
millan in the security debate:
Some of his own M.P.'s have
been worried by his habit of
divorcing his public from his
private life so that he seldom
entertains fellow Laborites.
In the final analysis Wilson,
however, should feel content
with his record. According to
the public opinion polls Labor
is still favored to win the
next elections, the by-election
results since he took office
have been favorable for him,
and the party shows a solid
front.
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