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| | NPG 5351; 'Change the crew? Why we'll row forever, steady from stroke to bow' (Quintin McGarel Hogg, 1st Baron Hailsham ... |
 | | Vicky's cartoon relates to Macmillan's unexpected cabinet re-shuffle of July 1962 when a number of his most loyal ministers were sacked. |
 | | Coxed by Harold Macmillan, the 'crew', all of whom held office during Macmillan's early days in power, are (left to right): Quintin Hogg, Ernest Marples, Reginald Maudling, Duncan Duncan-Sandys, Alec Douglas-Home, John Selwyn Lloyd, 'Rab' Butler and Iain Macleod. |
 | | Vicky alludes to the annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race, and 'The Eton Boating Song', which was appropriate as Macmillan had himself been at Eton. |
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