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Healthy Majority. It was no landslide, but the victory gave Prime Minister Eden a majority of 59 seats, and a working ma jority of 67 seats over the Laborite Opposition. It meant an end to years of narrow majorities, nerve-racking party discipline and last-minute scrabbling in the corridors to squeeze crucial measures through Parliament. For the first time in 90 years, the party in power was re-elected with an increased majority...
...widest majority won by any right-wing government since Stanley Baldwin's National Government swept in on a platform of peace and a majority of 247 in 1935. "It seems that the country has said to us, 'Get on with the job,' " said Sir Anthony Eden, the man who had waited so long in the lee of Sir Winston Churchill for his own chance to govern...
...Conservative mainstays - Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler, Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, La bor Minister Sir Walter Monckton - returned, most of them with bigger pluralities. Eden himself carried his Warwick and Leamington constituency by 3,663 votes more than he had in 1951. "Thank you so much," said the Prime Minister, in clipped Oxford accent, to droves of well-wishers at the Shire Hall...
...past resentments of the Tories lingered, there were plenty of signs that the present leadership intends to deserve well of the future. Anthony Eden has found a new self-confidence. Chancellor Butler has kept the Welfare State but has adjusted his budgets to restore incentives to private enterprise. Foreign Secretary Macmillan (whose son and son-in-law were elected along with him to Parliament) is a wartime friend of Eisenhower's, and a firm believer in the Anglo-American partnership. The Tories have problems ahead -including, two days after the election, a nationwide railway strike-but they also have...
Newly elected Prime Minister Eden, already preoccupied with a dock strike that has disrupted six major seaports, went on the air from the prime-ministerial country place, Chequers, to appeal to the strikers. "The country is going to be hurt," said he, and there will be "unemployment on a rapidly increasing scale." Put on notice by the striking union's advance warning, Eden's Cabinet was ready with emergency plans for distributing essential food and medical supplies. The government, said Eden sternly, "will do all it can to protect the nation...