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...Commons. Top Tory thinker and the man who oversaw the party's postwar shift to "the New Conservatism," i.e., free enterprise heavily tempered by welfare statism, "Rab" Butler is distrusted by many fellow Tories for reasons ranging from his barbed wit to his prewar identification with Neville Chamberlain's appeasement. Although he remains the No. 2 man in the party, Butler may well be too old for the job the next time the Tories come to choose a new Prime Minister, and there is considerable question whether Macmillan will give him the job he wants now: Foreign Secretary...
...general agreement as to why a strike, which according to predictions in the spring would be but a short one, has turned out to be the longest in the industry's post-war history. "The careful preparations destroyed any particular incentive to settle," Smithies said. Both he and Chamberlain think that work rules are "an intractable issue" on which there is little common ground for compromise...
...Lederhosen, overalled factory workers, student nurses in starched blue uniforms, black-clad seminarians, tens of thousands of flag-waving schoolchildren shouted dozens of greetings, all meaning "I Like Ike." Eastward through the summer-evening haze, the President could make out the Hotel Petersberg, opposite Bad Godesberg where Neville Chamberlain stayed while conferring with Hitler on the road to Munich, 21 years before; northward lay the black cathedral spires of the city of Cologne that the U.S. First Army had smashed into smithereens 14 years before. Placards said: THE CITY OF PORZ GREETS EISENHOWER -TROISDORF WELCOMES YOU-GERMANY TRUSTS EISENHOWER. Mixed...
Japan's comely Crown Princess Michiko, 24, suddenly stopped appearing at public functions with Crown Prince Akihito only three months after the royal wedding (TIME, April 20). Then the imperial household's chamberlain issued a very cautious bulletin: Michiko "may be with child," but the doctors are not yet absolutely positive...
Bitter Blow. As for his own umbrella-bearing Prime Minister, Sir Ivone confesses, "I was never able to discover what passed through Mr. Chamberlain's mind in this fleeting negotiation, which he conducted entirely alone without, so far as I am aware, warning anyone in advance. One thing is certain. The subsequent [Nazi] seizure of Prague was a bitter blow to Mr. Chamberlain . . . Whenever Hitler's name was mentioned after March 17, the Prime Minister looked as if he had swallowed a bad oyster...