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...week following Harold Macmillian's retirement, Lord Home was everyone's second choice. While R. A. B. Butler and Lord Hailsham split bitterly in quest of the Prime Ministership, Home waited patiently for a deadlock, hoping for the appointment as a compromise candidate. Both the deadlock and the appointment came, but the compromise was only illusory. In seeking to resolve the Butler-Hailsham conflict with Home, unflappable Mac inadvertently produced nothing short of a party revolt...
After holding out for a full day, both the losers reluctantly accepted posts in the new cabinet. Hailsham in his old job as Minister for Science and Butler as Foreign Secretary. More important, two of the party's progressive leaders were so incensed at the selection that they refused to remain in the government. The loss of Iain Macleod, co-chairman of the Tory Party, and of Health Minister Enoch Powell is a scar that no amount of verbal veneer can conceal...
...with the support of such popular stalwarts as Minister for Science Lord Hailsham and Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling, both of whom kept their jobs, Douglas-Home has already set in motion new government programs aimed at deflating Labor's claim to be the only reform party. Forestalling Labor's pledge to install a planning czar to direct the economy, Douglas-Home switched Lord Privy Seal Ted Heath, his able, longtime foreign-policy spokesman in the Commons, to an ambitious new Ministry for Industry, Trade and Regional Development. Armed with a long-awaited committee report urgently recommending...
Outwardly at least came the inevitable closing of the ranks. This week Home announced his new Cabinet containing the solid Tories, including Butler (named Foreign Secretary), Hailsham and Maudling (in their old jobs) and Heath (named President of the Board of Trade). Missing: Iain Macleod, co-chairman of the Tory Party, one of the rebels who could not reconcile himself to the way Home was chosen...
...Labor Party is already in full cry. Describing the Tory selection process as viciously undemocratic, the Laborite Daily Mirror wrote: "Butler has been betrayed, Maudling insulted, Macleod ignored, Heath treated with contempt and Hailsham giggled out of court by the jester in hospital." Deriding the Tories' "aristocratic cabal," Harold Wilson last week took aim and declared scornfully: "In this ruthlessly competitive, scientific, technical, industrial age, a week of intrigues has produced a result based on family and hereditary connections. The leader has emerged-an elegant anachronism...