Wilson, Harold

Although Campbell did not accept the Soviet offer of a vast demonstration farm, others did. M. L. Wilson, Harold Ware (who had extensive experience in the Soviet Union), and Guy Riggin were invited to... 

For a short period between 1965 and 1968, under the Labour government of Harold Wilson, prescription charges were abolished. In 1968, however, charges were reintroduced and the concept of exemptions was introduced. 

Normally the role of officials was to ensure that decisions were taken by ministers in an orderly way, but inevitably officials briefs drew ministers attention to discrepancies in expert advice, and some officials, of whom Brook was one, and his successor as Cabinet Secretary, Sir Burke Trend, another, could be influential advisers on their own account. Brook had acquired considerable influence over Churchill and became accustomed to putting forward his own opinions in the briefs that he prepared for prime ministers. On the other hand he was unable to dissuade Eden from what he (Brook) considered to be the folly of the Suez operation. Trend was said by Lord Rothschild in 1970 to be one of the two men who ran the country, the other being Sir William Armstrong, the permanent secretary of the Treasury. Trend was a great believer in the Anglo-American special relationship, and this is reflected in the advice that he gave Harold Wilson, of whom he was a close confidant. ... 

Harold Wilson, A Prime Minister on Prime Ministers (London Weidenfeld and Nicolson Joseph, 1977), p.326. 

I. R. LEHMAN ALTON MEISTER ROBERT C. NORDLIE MARIAN ORLOWSKI S. PONTREMOLI TED W. REID F. J. REITHEL FREDERIC M. RICHARDS C. H. SUELTER HIROSHI TANIUCHI TSUNEKO UCHIDA IRWIN B. WILSON SIMON C. K. WONG JOHN C. WRISTON, JR. HAROLD W.WYCKOFF MASANOBU YAMAMOTO ZIELKE... 

Submitted by C. F. H. Allen and C. V. Wilson. Checked by Arthur C. Cope, Frank S. Fawcett, and Harold R. Nace. 

The creation of a linker market was formally recommended by the Committee to Review the Functioning of Financial Institutions (1977-1980) —known as the Wilson Committee, after its Chairman Sir Harold Wilson. However, Mark Deacon s and Andrew Derry s excellent book Inflation-Indexed Securities cites a recommendation by Keynes to issue linkers as early as 1924. There was a domestic precursor for the market, inasmuch as the UK government s National Savings department had been issuing inflation-linked savings certificates for retail investors since 1975. 

The rationale behind these tests was summed up in a memo from Denis Healey, Secretary of State for Defence in the new Labour govermnent of 1964, to the Prime Minister, Harold Wilson ... 

Harold Wilson, the Prime Minister, noted that... 

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