the House of Lords is the 31-year-old Earl of Gowrie. He will replace Lord Bethel as a Government junior whip. Bethel resigned following allegations about his connection with Victor Louis, the well-known freelance agent for the KGB. It seems that the Tories are so desperate to get some talent into the front bench in the Lords that they are willing to forgive and forget Cowrie's former left-wing views.
I wonder, does the Earl still think that Russia is state capitalise?
Colonel Gerald Kherli of the U.S. Air Force was sentenced to three years' imprisonment by a U.S. court martial in Vietnam last month, and fined $15,000 Col. K. was not involved in My Lal. He did not teke part in that killing of 102 Vietnamese civilians His crime, his horribie crime, was that ho smoked por.
Pity the Irish Minister for Defence and his top brass advisers. The recent promotion of Col. Patrick "Baldie" Delaney to be Chief of Stalf has laft a vacancy at the head of army intelligence. Delaney was Director of Intelligence for one vear, having replaced the purged Col. M. J. "Hef" Hafferon. During that year he purged the intelligence section so well that there is no one of any talent left to replace him.
Any suggestions should be sent to Dept. G.2, Red House, Infirmary Road, Park Gate, Dublin.
For all the furore in the press about the posting of the Duke of Kent to Uiscer, Fleet Screet had very little space to report the departure of his Grace 19 days later. The Duke with his amit, "Charlie" Squadron, Royal Scars Grees, loaded thei armoured cars at Lame for Scranraer in Scotland, On board cahins were available for che Ponce and the ocher officers. His "Jocks" including che drivers of the armoured cars had to make do with sleeping on the decks without even sleeping bags In as editorial "To end the postal strike" the Guardian of Februmy 26t, after appealing for "» more sensible relationship between pay rises and incrensed productivity", and decising that "It will be better if the Goremment 'wins"... in the postal strike" /eote, no ihatons aboud whether or not the write was "boltical"), went on to make a prophetic forecast which laid hare The class natare of the actives of the TUC "The probability remains that the TUC will do everything it can to avoid anything that looks like a veneral strike situation. It is comfortina