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...liven up the opening of a mental health exhibit in London, Britain's waggish Minister of Labor, Sir Walter Monckton, tried on a brain-wave recording device for size, came out looking as if he were a fugitive from a Martian barbershop...
...Conservative mainstays - Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler, Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, La bor Minister Sir Walter Monckton - returned, most of them with bigger pluralities. Eden himself carried his Warwick and Leamington constituency by 3,663 votes more than he had in 1951. "Thank you so much," said the Prime Minister, in clipped Oxford accent, to droves of well-wishers at the Shire Hall...
...budge from their position, a government-appointed three-man court of inquiry was called in. It found the demands "unjustified . . . unrealistic," since they would boost the unions' scale well above that of the rest of the country. But the negotiators refused to bargain. Labor Minister Sir Walter Monckton proposed that the strikers go back to work on all papers, pending a settlement, but his appeal fell on deaf ears...
Churchill was working five or six hours a day, eating heartily, and doughtily disregarding the advice of his doctors to stay on the wagon. Among the visitors: Tory Chief Whip Patrick Buchan-Hepburn (usually consulted on Cabinet changes), Housing Minister Harold Macmillan, and Labor Minister Sir Walter Monckton...
...title without a department to go with it. Furthermore, he fears that the foreign secretaryship might go to his chief rival in foreign affairs in the party: Harold Macmillan, 59, of the book-publishing Macmillans, and personal friend of Churchill and Eisenhower. Another possibility for Foreign Secretary: Sir Walter Monckton, 62, the sturdy former Solicitor-General who has done an outstanding job as Minister of Labor. The difficulty is that he would be hard to replace, for one of the key requirements for Tory success is that the powerful trade-union movement cooperate loyally with the government, and Sir Walter...