European Diary, 1977-1981 (107 page)

⁶¹
Foreign honours are much complicated by British Government rules; see entry for 15 December 1980
infra.

⁶²
(Sir) Ian MacGregor, b. 1912, was Chairman of the British Steel Corporation 1980–3 and of the National Coal Board 1983–7.

⁶³
It went through, by a rather narrow majority, and became the so-called Vredeling Directive.

⁶⁴
(Sir) William Heseltine, b. 1930 in Fremantle, Western Australia. Now (since 1986) Private Secretary to the Queen and Keeper of the Queen's Archives.

⁶⁵
Yitzhak Shamir, b. 1915, was Foreign Minister of Israel 1980–3 and 1984–6, and Prime Minister 1983–4 and from October 1986.

⁶⁶
Humphrey Atkins, b. 1922, cr. Lord Colnbrook 1987, was Secretary of State for Northern Ireland 1979–81.

⁶⁷
Sir Fred Dainton, b. 1914, cr. Lord Dainton 1986, was Vice-Chancellor of Nottingham 1965–70, and has been Chancellor of Sheffield since 1978.

⁶⁸
Alan Bullock, b. 1914, cr. Lord Bullock 1976, was Master of St Catherine's College, Oxford, 1960–80, and Vice-Chancellor of Oxford 1969–73.

⁶⁹
As Director of the Labour Committee for Europe.

⁷⁰
He became Sir Crispin Tickell only when he was invested as a KCVO by the Queen (i.e. a specifically royal honour) on the occasion of her visit to Mexico in 1983. He was dubbed at Acapulco in a beach shirt.

⁷¹
What a stuffy out-of-date 1960s and 1970s ministerial view this proved. Everyone (except perhaps for the actual Prime Minister), and certainly including me, is now very glad to appear on
Question Time.

⁷²
James Meade, b. 1907, Nobel Prizewinner, was Professor of Political Economy in the University of Cambridge 1957–69.

⁷³
Ivor Richard, b. 1932, a Labour MP 1964–74, was British Permanent Representative at the UN 1974–9, and a European Commissioner 1981–5.

⁷⁴
Jeremy Thomas, b. 1931, Britain's Ambassador to Luxembourg 1979–82, has been Ambassador to Greece since 1985.

¹
He never did.

²
Periodic meetings of Commission, management and unions to discuss Community economic strategy.

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