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...calm profusion, Britons went to the polls. The result was a sharp and decisive victory for Great Britain's Conservative Party and the first solidly entrenched Brit ish government in the past five years. In smartly winning his gamble on a well-timed quick election, Sir Anthony Eden won his own five-year mandate to govern Great Britain under the banners of en lightened Toryism, and his Conservatives more than trebled the thin parliamentary majority Eden had inherited from Sir Winston Churchill...
...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...
...about everything on their side-prosperity, the neatly timed Big Four talks, a well-financed party machine, popular leaders, and the good fortune to be in office during, in the words of the London Economist, "one of those rare periods of British history when it has been easier to govern than to oppose." Yet the voting swing to the Conservative Party was less than 2%. The Tories' white-haired campaign manager, avuncular old Lord Woolton, acknowledged that "the low poll" was the key to victory. He quoted a taxi driver in Stockport: "I had nothing to grumble about." Lord...
French youth dares not dream. It must face a reality partly restricted by tradition, partly by history, partly by the failure of its nation's leaders to govern wisely and fairly...
...steadfastly for Labor and about the same number, or slightly fewer, are habitually Conservative. Perhaps 500 of Commons' seats are therefore already spoken for. But in about 130 other constituencies, locked in the elusive mood of Britain's several million wavering voters, lies the mandate to govern...