GREAT DAY FOR WILSON
In parliament July 15, Prime Minister Harold Wilson did a beautiful job of showing what standing he has won by playing the faithful servant to Johnson. Wilson reported that his emissary to Hanoi, Harold Davies, was “unable to see any North Vietnamese Ministers or to obtain any undertaking that the Commonwealth mis-~ sion would be received in Hanoi." Nevertheless Davies had "protracted conversations" with certain officials who took "copious notes.
A Tory spokesman had suggested that Davies might come back "brainwashed." But Wilson had seen the "full notes" taken by Davies. “Let me say it was Mr. Davies who brainwashed them, as anyone would expect who knows him,"
Another Tory had suggested nastily that Wilson sent Davies to Hanoi without "the permission of the Americans."
The Prime Minister was triumphant. "...I can tell him now that this was most warmly received by the Americans, not only in private but in public. I am able to say that we were in the closest connexion with them while Mr. Davies was there..."
A great day for Wilson! Hanoi brainwashed, The Tories con= founded. And the Americans in stitches over the comedy performance of Johnson's well-trained British butler...