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When Iain Macleod rose at the Conservative Party Conference in Brighton to report for the last time as Colonial Secretary, and when he affirmed his belief in the brotherhood of man, he was warmly applauded, because he had been promoted, because he is popular, and because the delegates knew that he had served radically but well. It was not until that afternoon that the vague notes of faint discord that were to characterize the rest of the conference first made themselves heard...
...party conference, bald, stocky (5 ft. 9 in., 190 Ibs.) Iain Macleod, who had been Colonial Secretary for two years, was transferred by Prime Minister Macmillan to the key posts of party chairman and leader of the House of Commons. Though seemingly unconcerned as Tory fortunes sagged to their lowest point in more than four years, heavy-lidded Harold Macmillan can react under pressure like Mac the Knife. Pulling his switchblade, he lopped off his liabilities, pinned down his most formidable adversary, and cleared the path toward the next general election...
...from the Nerve Center. To move up Macleod, Macmillan relieved Home Secretary Richard Austen Butler, 58, as party chairman and Commons leader. Macmillan's overt aim was to free Butler to act as his personal deputy, and take charge of the group of ministers assigned to handle Britain's crucial negotiations with the European Common Market. Shrewd, tart-tongued "Rab" Butler, who has long been Macmillan's chief rival for 10 Downing Street, was thus removed from the party's nerve center to an assignment that could make or break the government-but will reflect luster...
...Into Macleod's old job went the Board of Trade's Reginald Maudling, 44, who has little knowledge of the government's complex colonial problems, which have become a major source of disaffection within the Conservative Party. By installing a new man in the Colonial Office, Macmillan effectively forestalled criticism at the party conference; but the move will not easily brake the African colonies' full-throttled advance to independence...
...Left to Be Right. As Colonial Secretary, Iain Macleod liquidated African colonies at a clip that would soon have liquidated the Colonial Office. Diehard imperialists argued that he was selling the white man down the river, but Macleod's policy was built on bedrock Tory principles: duty and realism. With most young Britons, he believes Whitehall has a responsibility to bring the colonies to mature independence and membership in a multiracial Commonwealth. Pragmatically, he knows well that no force on earth can halt the tide of nationalism. But Macmillan realized that if Macleod had stayed on, his colonial policies...