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...History alone," Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan told the House of Commons last week, "will prove whether what we did was right or wrong," and, he added, "I believe that history will show that we have chosen aright." But as keeper of the national purse strings, it was doughty Harold's unpleasant duty to point out to his countrymen that whatever the verdict of history might be, it was bound to prove expensive...
...nation from ?35 million to ?50 million. It had put the Suez Canal itself out of operation for perhaps six months, and reduced Britain's supply of vital Middle Eastern oil to a trickle. Valuable dollar reserves must be spent to buy oil elsewhere. "Whatever happens," said Harold Macmillan, "it is quite clear that there must be-I do not wish either to minimize it or exaggerate it -that there will be, a serious temporary effect upon our economy...
Just a year ago, ailing and deeply depressed by the death of his wife, and about to step down as Chancellor of the Exchequer, "Rab" had helped to make a tepid conference more tepid, and had lost his place in the leadership stakes to the debonair Macmillan. Now he bounced back with the kind of clear, practical talk that shaped the "New Toryism" with which the party won its way back to power in 1950. With wit and humor, Rab Butler apprised the party of the ever-changing path to office: "In the Middle Ages you bullied your...
...government's apparent inability to reverse trends resulting from Socialist maladministration" and to "use its strong majority to implement more forcibly its election promises." Minister of Housing and Local Government Duncan Sandys pledged that he would decontrol 10 million rent-controlled houses. Chan cellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan delivered a lengthy appeal for his plan to take Britain into a new European free-trade area (TIME, Oct. 15). But by far the most ringing response to the rank and file's complaints came from Lord Privy Seal R. A. Butler...
THUNDER IN THE ROOM, by Harris Downey (205 pp.; Macmillan; $3), is a first novel which attempts a Joycean account of a day in the life of some citizens of a Southern capital, but often it seems more like a long afternoon spent in a botanical garden. From the very first page, when beautiful Stella Madden catches the delicate odor of spring, the prose thrusts up stalks of dracaena, carnations, ger-beras, tulips, coleuses, yaupon, oleander, jasmine, gladioli, magnolia and azalea. Even the characters come equipped with floral borders: Yancey, a condemned murderer, "clutches his hyacinth-red hair"; beautiful Stella...