Rollback, Mark II

I shall resist the temptation to cover the British elections all over again, but I cannot refrain from indicating some areas in which Margaret Thatcher’s famous victory is directly relevant to this space. The master area, if I may so put it, is of course the Soviet Union and what it is up to the world over. The sub-areas are therefore numerous, and include Europe, SALT II, Africa, the Far East, and all the seas and oceans. They also comprise technology and the capitalist system, including international banking credit. Is there, indeed, anything anywhere that is not a “sub-area”?

In office, as distinct from opposition, even the most glowing of conservative hopes faces sobering pressures—from more timid colleagues, from the nasties of the trade unions, from the immobilizing hand of the Civil Service. Still, there can be no harm in stating some of the expectations legitimately aroused by the presence in 10 Downing Street of the holder of an Order not, to my knowledge, previously awarded by the USSR: the Order of the “Iron Lady,” holder the Rt. Hon. Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, MP.

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I shall resist the temptation to cover the British elections all over again, but I cannot refrain from indicating some areas in which Margaret Thatcher’s famous victory is directly relevant to this space. The master area, if I may so put it, is of course the Soviet Union and what it is up to the world over. The sub-areas are therefore numerous, and include Europe, SALT II, Africa, the Far East, and all the seas and oceans. They also comprise technology and the capitalist system, including international banking credit. Is there, indeed, anything anywhere that is not a “sub-area”?

In office, as distinct from opposition, even the most glowing of conservative hopes faces sobering pressures—from more timid colleagues, from the nasties of the trade unions, from the immobilizing hand of the Civil Service. Still, there can be no harm in stating some of the expectations legitimately aroused by the presence in 10 Downing Street of the holder of an Order not, to my knowledge, previously awarded by the USSR: the Order of the “Iron Lady,” holder the Rt. Hon. Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, MP.