Mr. Jenkins--who had just resigned as Deputy Party Leader over the issue of the

Common Market, which he supported and Labour Party Leader Harold Wilson

opposed--had been in younger days a working journalist and historian; he had just

written a book titled Afternoon on the Potomac-- the thesis of which, as he states it here,

is that "we've all of us lived through the plenitude of American power, which I think, on

the whole--there have been blemishes, certainly--has been rather beneficial for the

world for the past generation, and that power is getting rather strained at the present

time." An illuminating discussion, primarily of how treaties work, from Bretton Woods to SEATO and NATO. RJ: "We never did march side by side with you in Vietnam."

WFB: "In a sense you did." RJ: "What we did was to refrain from criticizing you."

WFB: "Yes, but we'll settle for that as a rule."