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92 'THE OSHAWA TIMES, Thursday, August 11, 1966 returned to power after years, he was named education Stewart's In Hierarchy Of Labor By COLIN FROST LONDON (AP) -- Michael Stewart, the unknown 'states- man took over Wednesday night the giant task of rescuing Britain from financial disaster. The self - effacing former schoolteacher has been foreign secretary for the last two years. But many Britons scarcely know what he looks like. Stewart's move to the home front was the main switch of Prime Minister Wilson's gov- ernment reshuffle Wednesday night. | | | Stewart makes a straight the Labor government, second minister. The foreign secretary's went to Patrick Gordon Walker. Stock Soars = ousted from the Commons by suburb of Birmingham. LOST IN LEYTON He tried to win another Com- mons seat in Leyton, northeast London but was again defeated. change of jobs with George; He can expect a quick and Brown, economics minister who| shuddering collision with major now becomes foreign secretary. labor unions, aghast at seeing " Brown remains deputy prime their bergaining power whipped|!nevitably he had to resign as minister. But it was clear to away by the new freeze Jaw/| foreign secretary. everyone in the Commons/which the government inched The resignation brought the smokerooms that Stewart has through the Commons Wednes- | unknown Stewart to the foreign emerged as the strongman of day night. office, one of Britain's great of- If he succeeds, he can hope fices of state. only to Wilson. to pa his career sy? gato In that post he has been a sion to prime minister if party|consistent supporter of ADMINISTERS FREEZE faction or political accident/United States position in Viet His task is to administer the should force Wilson out, 'Nam, brushing aside the persis- wage and price freeze, which is Political accident already has|tent complaints of Labor's left Brown's brainchild, and io re-jbeen decisive in britging Stew-!wing store confidence in the British t tart to his present ascendancy. He has travelled the five con- economy and the pound sterling.! In 1964, when the Labor party \tinents, Yet he remains so little the electors of Smethwick, a the 13\)known to the man in the street;and fair chess player, won his cartoonists|education by scholarship that the political |have to put a label on his like- ness. Stewart 59, is grey-haired, | Gordon Walker, however, was|black - browed, quiet - spoken.|served with CAME IN LANDSLIDE He came into Parliament in 11945 as nart of the great Tabor! jlandslide that ejected Winston | |Churchill from power at the mo-| |ment of Second World War vic-| tory. He held minor posts in the Labor governments of 1945 to 1951. In the years of opposition he made himself an expert on education, housing and local government. Unlike Wilson, he was a close friend and supporter of the La- bor party's late leader, Hugh Gaitskell, Unlike Wilson again. he does not rouse high blood pressure among the opposition Conservatives, ' Stewart, a weekend painter to Christ's Hospital, a charity school, and Oxford University. In the Second World War he the intelligence corps. He sits in Parliament as a member for Fulham, a West London district. GETS NEW LOOK LONDON (Reuters) -- The post office, set up by King Charles If in 1660, will become a corporation with a new busi- ness look, Postmaster General Edward Short announced Wed- nesday. The present yoyern- ment department will continue) to be run by the state, but its 400,000 employees no longer will be civil servants paid by the government. In future they will have a permanent, non-ministe- and his companion, Conserva- Fake Invitation Sent Heath | LONDON (AP) Edward tive MP Norman St. John Ste-; As embarrassed security men vas, "were stopped quite somejexplained that it was a private way before reaching the room/party and that the invitations where the dinner was being|were forgeries, Heath burst out given," laughing. Heath, leader. of the Conserva- tive Opposition, was turned away Wednesday night from a dinner party in honor of South Viet Nam's deputy premier, Lt.- Gen. Nguyen Huu Co. His invitation, printed on Brit- ish government stationery, was a hoax. So were the invitations of 14 other prominent politicians invited to the dinner at the Dor- chester Hotel. Scotland Yard detectives be- gan an investigation into the hoax, believed the work of a British group opposing the war in Viet Nam. A hotel spokesman said Heath Continental French Buffet 4 IGHLY RECOMMENDED Che Rih Room Will Be Closed Sundays For The Summer Served Daily 11:30 - 2 p.m, -- 5 to 8 p.m. GENOSHA HOTEL rial chief. Volkswagen Prices Slashed! "BIG REDUCTIONS" on all 966 Volkswagens While They STATION WAGON Reduced Price REDUCED ast Z 1600 FASTBACK REDUCED PRICE PRICES INCLUDE: Gas Booster Heater, Adjust- able Bucket Seats, Side Mirrors, Licence, Pad- ded Sunvisor, Windshield Washers, Electric Windshield Wipers, Tank of Gas. 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