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Home's victory may prove to be Pyrrhic. As a millionaire, one of Britain's biggest landowners, an Old Etonian, head of a family whose pedigree predates Magna Carta, he has inevitably caused the revival of an old argument: that the Tories' progressive, democratic goals are mere window dressing for the party of wealth and privilege...
Home's wife, who was the daughter of his old headmaster but cannot remember the Earl as an Etonian, shuttles with her husband between London, The Hirsel and Dorneywood, their country home in Buckinghamshire. She knits his socks, often cooks his breakfast. She is also an accomplished hostess, and confesses: "I love politics, because we are not the worrying kind. My husband is even more of an unworrier than I am." The Homes have three grown daughters and a son, 19-year-old Lord Dunglass, who will eventually inherit his father's suspended titles-unless he too wants...
...hares from the drawing-room window. At first young Alec seemed to take after him. Eton contemporaries still remember Alec Home's finest hour, in the big cricket match of 1922, when he scored 66 runs on a sticky wicket against Harrow. In those days, Author and Fellow Etonian Cyril Connolly wrote, Britain's new Prime Minister "was the kind of graceful, tolerant, sleepy boy who is showered with favors and crowned with all the laurels, who is liked by the masters and admired by the boys without any apparent exertion on his part. In the 18th century...
Died. Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey, 61, prolific British Labor M.P., a suave, beaky Etonian who left his father's paper, the conservative Spectator, to dally with fascism, then Communism, and finally settle down a little left of center, becoming Minister of Food in the postwar Labor government, imposing much-hated bread rationing and undertaking the ill-fated $100 million "groundnut" scheme, but was nevertheless one of his party's ablest thinkers; of a heart attack; in London...
...Tories simply cannot afford to be tarred by Christine. What they have traditionally offered the nation is men born and raised in the exacting disciplines of leadership. If now, in addition to all the political and economic reverses they have suffered in the past year, Britons should conclude that Etonian and Harrovian leaders are personally no wiser or more upright-and in many cases they have proved flagrantly less so-than those whom they govern, twelve years of Tory government may end in a mighty flash of moral indignation mixed with ridicule...