JAMES HAROLD WILSON (UNITED KINGDOM)

Approved for Release: 2019/07/31 C06790969 UNITED KINGDOM Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury James Harold WILSON Harold Wilson became the youngest British Prime Minister in this century when the Labor Party, after 13 years in Opposition, won a narrow victory in the October 1964 general election. During his first year in office he met a series of financial and political crises with courage, confidence, patience, and imperturbability. Having established himself as a national leader, who...