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Rising Man. Rab Butler knows where he is going because he laid down the road. It is a new road for Toryism, and Butler is a new kind of Tory. He belongs neither to the aristocracy of Churchill and Eden nor the business world of Lord Woolton and Neville Chamberlain, but to a long line of scholars and civil servants. His new Toryism accepts the welfare state and its social services with enthusiasm-but with an insistence that people be treated as individuals. It maintains a man's right to be secure collectively, but insists on his right...
...Eden resigned from the Foreign Office in protest against Neville Chamberlain's policies of appeasement, and was replaced by Lord Halifax. Chamberlain picked Butler as Under Secretary. With the Foreign Secretary in the House of Lords, if was often Butler's job to defend policy in the Commons. While Churchill cried havoc from the back benches, Butler loyally defended Munich and Mussolini's Italy in his maddeningly tranquil voice, became famed for his equivocal replies to awkward questions. The exasperated and jittery Commons nicknamed him "Stonewall Butler," and Lloyd George called him "the artful dodger...
...over this period. "There were weaknesses in those policies, but there are many things about those days which are still unknown to the public," he explains uncomfortably. ''Then, you know, an Under Secretary doesn't make policy." He also points out that after the fall of Chamberlain, both Churchill and Eden asked him to stay on at the Foreign Office. "So they couldn't have been too fed up with...
...Dalai Lama, who in March 1951, when he was 16, was photographed in a southern Tibetan monastery. He had fled there to escape the Red Chinese hordes advancing on Lhasa, capital of his theocracy, to which he returned later that year. In the picture, the Dalai's Lord Chamberlain shows him a golden urn said to contain the ashes of Buddha's two chief disciples...
...best time to vaccinate youngsters against smallpox, diphtheria and whooping cough is in the first few hours of life, Country Doctor Herbert D. Chamberlain told general practitioners. Among 741 babies so treated in Ohio's Vinton County, he reported no bad reactions, and so far full protection against the diseases...