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...quite sure what to do with it." His sallies have earned him a slightly uneasy reputation as a gifted intellectual in a party that looks askance at "brilliant" men. Nor have many older Tories-including Harold Macmillan-ever forgotten that, as a junior minister in Neville Chamberlain's government, Butler was a loyal and eloquent champion of Munich...
When Churchill became Prime Minister, he could not forgive Butler for having defended Chamberlain's actions, but he recognized Rab's talents and in 1941 offered him a choice between the important Ministry of Information and the backwater Board of Education. Remote as it was from the war effort, Butler plumped for education, knowing that it would be one of the key areas of postwar social reform. When he thanked Churchill for the job, legend has it that the Prime Minister retorted: "I meant it as an in sult." Nonetheless, the highly acclaimed Butler Act in 1944 became...
...Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "Bulbous nose, dolorous eyes, tight lips . . . like a punchinello whose feelings have been wounded." » Adlai Stevenson: "The round head of a plump, warmhearted, paternal grandpa ... a man who laughs easily while his eyes remain staring like a couple of Andromeda nebulae." » Neville Chamberlain: "The Secre tary Bird, which you may watch at the zoo walking back and forth on stiff legs with an expression of honest purpose on its face...
...rudest Low blows fell on the men who were conspiring to turn the world red with blood. Even as Chamberlain's umbrella went to Munich, Low's famous "Rendezvous" showed Hitler and Stalin tipping their hats to each other. Low's cartoons so infuriated der Führer that he sent off official protests to London...
...Obscene," ruled the Lord Chamberlain, curator of British sensibilities, and 30 phrases were expunged from Henry Miller's written-in-three-days play Just Wild About Harry (TIME, July 12) at the Edinburgh Festival. From California, Miller looked on the bright side: "It just arouses more curiosity about the play." Maybe, but it seems that the dirt was the only thing holding Harry together; after two expurgated performances, it closed...