Word: lording
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carry more weight with the Tory Party and with Macmillan personally than the sibilant, stern Lord Salisbury. Besides being relatives by marriage, Macmillan and Salisbury have been political allies ever since 1938 when Salisbury, along with Anthony Eden, resigned from Neville Chamberlain's government in protest at British appeasement of Mussolini. When Suez and ill-health drove Eden from No. 10 Downing Street last winter, it was Salisbury, together with Sir Winston Churchill, who persuaded the Queen to name Macmillan Prime Minister instead of "Rab" Butler (who had once supported Chamberlain's appeasement...
...rejoicing was soon ended. The first discordant note was struck when Lord Salisbury, in a dramatic repetition of his 1938 stand, resigned as Lord President of the Council, Tory Leader in the House of Lords and chief of Britain's atomic energy program. By freeing Makarios, wrote Salisbury in his letter of resignation, Britain had surrendered the initiative to the Archbishop, "and he will be able to edge us along from point to point. We shall have a sword of Damocles hanging over our heads...
Somber Hint. Some of Lord Salisbury's forebodings were soon confirmed. From the Seychelles, black-bearded Patriarch Makarios announced flatly that he was not prepared to negotiate with the British until he was permitted to return to Cyprus, and somberly hinted that EOKA terrorism would be resumed unless Britain lifted the state of emergency and released all Greek Cypriot political prisoners. By implication he also rejected Britain's offer of limited home rule for Cyprus under the British crown. "For the people of Cyprus," he declared, "a democratic and just solution means only the application of self-determination...
...Edward Poynder Grigg, 2nd Baron Altrincham of Tormarton, might well be expected to defend with heart and hand the well-rooted principle of British conservatism. Instead, as the peppery and literate editor of the National and English Review (which he inherited along with his title from his father), Tory Lord Altrincham has aimed the barbs of his pointed prose at all the institutions dearest to the old ties...
...able to seize for itself, and the nature of its influence on public opinion, throw light on the real balance of power in a society." Newspapers can no longer influence readers as they did when government was less complex and the electorate less educated. As the phenomenally successful Lord Northcliffe once told Daily Mail staffers, "We don't direct the ordinary man's opinion. We reflect it." Though high production costs and what Williams calls "trustification" have killed more than 475 newspapers in Britain and the U.S. in the past 35 years, he argues that...