Skilled Debater
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copi/Hohl> LONDON, Aug. 11. Mr George Brown, the new British Foreign Minister, is a tough, ebullient Londoner. Aged 51, he was born in one of the city’s poorest quarters and grew up in working class districts. He saw trade unionism as one road ahead that might lead him to power. The son of an Irish-born truck driver, he got his first political experience when only eight years old—distributing handbills in the 1922 General Election. Then, after school days in a grimy London suburb, jobs as a clerk and fur salesman, he joined the Transport and General Workers* Union as a district organiser. Right of centre in his Socialist philosophy, he made an unsuccessful bid early in 1963 for the leadership of the Labour Party in succession to the late Mr Hugh Gaitskell. He is a skilled debater and outspoken in the House of Commons, where he is admired for his moral courage.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31136, 12 August 1966, Page 13
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