The newsfeed and politicians of yesteryear

 Hi All

A news feed from the 1960s :

When I first saw this I assumed it was a comedy sketch as today i don't think they'd be able to use the term "Japs" for Japanese people nor make a light hearted joke about the wives shopping and nattering. Today they'd also moan about the guy smoking , the fact they're hunting, have guns  and that he's got a big house with a Labrador retriever . But no pathe was a news company and yes there was a Lord Home (pronounced Hume), a Scottish  Conservative  who became Prime Minister, even though he was an earl, who in true aristocratic tradition said he wouldn't want to be Prime Minister because he did his sums with match sticks. He was one of  the last of the traditional elite of Britain and sadly what was a lot of good in public life .

Lord Home is clearly a man who represents the old governing class at its best. ... He is not ambitious in the sense of wanting to scheme for power, although not foolish enough to resist honour when it comes to him. ... He gives that impression by a curious mixture of great courtesy, and even if yielding to pressure, with underlying rigidity on matters of principle. ... This is exactly the quality that the class to which he belongs have at their best because they think about the question under discussion and not about themselves.