The Rise of a Senior Statesman
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The catastrophe in New Orleans, which has aroused deep sympathy here, is so overwhelming that day-today politics on the other side of the Atlantic must seem more than usually remote. The Conservative Party has been out of office for more than eight years and is not likely to regain power in Britain for at least four more. So the question of who leads it may seem academic just now.
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