Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...front seat, and shouted: "It's Mac, the bookie!" Forty minutes later, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan, half-American grandson of a Scots tenant farmer, ex-Grenadier Guardsman and wartime friend of President Dwight Eisenhower, walked out of the palace as Her Majesty's Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury...
...prewar international scene, made himself the hero of millions when he resigned in 1938 to protest Chamberlain's policies of appeasement. He was probably the most skilled diplomatic technician of his time. When, after long years in the shadow of the great Churchill, Eden became Prime Minister in 1955, he led the Tories to an electoral victory which tripled their majority in the House. Polls showed his popularity higher than Churchill's, and all men wished him well...
...damaged the world's image of Britain. History's kindest verdict may be that he meant well and should have known better. The Evolution. The initiative to resign was Eden's own. The Tory Party was caught unprepared. In theory, the Queen herself designates the new Prime Minister; in practice, the parties give her no choice at all. The Labor Party is unequivocal: it caucuses, elects a new leader, and proposes him to the Queen. The Tories, oldest of all political parties, work more subtly. In Tory eyes, open elections solidify splits; leadership should "evolve." Usually...
...Phone Call. The Queen summoned only two men to advise her. First was Lord Salisbury, 62, widely regarded as the ablest Tory of them all, but disbarred from becoming Prime Minister by the unwritten 20th century understanding that he must be a member of the House of Commons. Next came Sir Winston Churchill himself. Both are longtime friends of Macmillan but only colleagues of Butler. Both, presumably, advised her to call Macmillan. But neither could have tendered that advice if the Tory Party had not reached its mysterious concurrence in the course of the long night. And what...
...Britain's new Prime Minister has the elegance of an aristocrat, the literacy of a scholar, the drive of an executive. His oratorical gestures are as widely expansive as his mustache, his eyes are hound-dog sad, but his wit is quick and cheerfully malicious...