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...Oliver Lyttelton, a millionaire industrialist with a taste for classical literature, was Churchill's trouble-shooting production chief in World War II. Last month Churchill sent husky Lyttelton, now Colonial Secretary, on a trouble-shooting trip to Malaya, where Britain's 3½-year war with Communism continues perilous, indecisive and expensive (it has cost the government $60,000 for every dead Communist guerrilla...
...Said Lyttelton, stepping down at Singapore's Kallang Airport: "The first duty of government is to ensure law & order. There is no point in giving people political progress if they get their throats cut." Replied the Singapore Labor Party's Secretary General P. M. Williams: "[He] does not realize that the present situation springs from the political setup...
...promising dark horse was Oliver Lyttelton, former Minister of Production and President of the Board of Trade, who is regarded as the Cripps of any future Tory government. He ably and dully defended Britain's steel industry which Labor wants to nationalize. He also showed one of the conference's rare flashes of humor. When a girl autograph hunter asked him to record three wishes, he wrote: "A new suit, a new government...
...around Churchill in this moment of decision would be several who have hoped to inherit his leadership: tired, greying, 49-year-old Anthony Eden (most Britons still think of him as younger and more dynamic than he actually is); cool, aloof Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler; able Sir Oliver Lyttelton; clever Harold Macmillan; lazy Oliver Stanley. But there was little doubt that the telling weight in the decision would be Churchill's. And there was almost no doubt that Churchill would decide against trying for a knockout blow...
Speaking from the other side of the political fence, hard-hitting Oliver Lyttelton, Minister of Production in Winston Churchill's Government, proposed extending the carrot system to everyone. His remedy for declining production was to stimulate all British workers by releasing automobiles, gasoline, luxuries for home consumption instead of exporting them...