Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...haired figure in evening dress stepped from a sedan to a surge of Tory cheers. "Well done, Mac," shouted voices. "You did it!" The tall, patrician-looking man paused for a moment, his handsome wife in blue evening gown at his side. "It has gone off rather well," murmured Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...
...many fellow Tories for reasons ranging from his barbed wit to his prewar identification with Neville Chamberlain's appeasement. Although he remains the No. 2 man in the party, Butler may well be too old for the job the next time the Tories come to choose a new Prime Minister, and there is considerable question whether Macmillan will give him the job he wants now: Foreign Secretary...
...been ambitiously reading up on Colonial Office policies and problems, but Macmillan may well decide he is still needed in the Labor Ministry to cope with Britain's unions. Either way, his name is at the top of just about everybody's list of future Tory Prime Ministers...
...angular bachelor who has served ably in several ministries (Pensions, Board of Trade, Agriculture), Heathcoat (pronounced hethcut) Amory never appears to seek power, but is ready and willing when it is thrust upon him. Many British pols believe that he will eventually make his muted, diffident way to the Prime Ministry itself, but his age, even more than Rab Butler's, is against him. For the present he will probably keep his job at the Treasury...
Although, as some of Prime Minister Macmillan's detractors have observed, a fine, un-English summer and the news of an impending addition to the royal family have conspired to help the Conservatives, there remain sound reasons for Macmillan's success. The first is prosperity. With full employment, a stable pound, lowered taxes, increased social services and the healthiest export-import situation in this century, most of England is enjoying unprecedented prosperity. Another helpful issue was foreign affairs. Despite the electoral liability, especially in Scotland, of recent abuses of power in Kenya and Nyasaland, Macmillan's leadership in trying...