Word: rab
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that Home was everybody's compromise candidate. In fact, wrote Macleod, only two of the 13 ministers he had spoken to favored Home, while many agreed that Butler "was the right and obvious successor." Macleod resigned rather than serve under Home, as did Health Minister Enoch Powell (though Rab Butler stayed on as Foreign Secretary...
London provided an opportunity to observe at firsthand the political leaders of Great Britain arguing bitterly against each other in preparation for a national election. On the Conservative side the American business leaders talked with Foreign Secretary Rab Butler, Board of Trade President Edward Heath and Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald Maudling; in Labor's camp they interviewed Party Leader Harold Wilson and Deputy George Brown...
...selection seemed to verify the Laborite charge that Conservatives really are anachronistic Tory gentlemen. Unlike their Labor opponents, who elect their leaders, the Tories have no formal method of selection: Instead, senior ministers take delicate soundings within the party to arrive at the "proper consensus." It must have rankled Rab Butler that the "consensus" decided on the aristocratic Home while a nation-wide Gallup poll found Butler to be as strong a Prime Ministerial candidate as Labor's Harold Wilson...
...Douglas-Home's shrewdest appointments, to the crucial job of party chairman, was Labor Minister John Hare, 52, a hardworking, true-blue Tory. As for Sir Alec's defeated rival for the prime ministership, Rab Butler, he had always wanted to be Foreign Secretary (Harold Macmillan denied him the job), and Rab made his debut last week at a Western European Union conference at The Hague with complete professional aplomb...
Butler was born in India, where his father was Governor of the Central Provinces before returning home to become master of Cambridge's Pembroke College. Rab went to Marlborough, was a brilliant undergraduate at Cambridge, and headed the university debating society. After one debate, in which Butler voted against a motion argued by Stanley Baldwin, he was warned by the visiting Prime Minister that "intellectualism is a sin and could lead a young man to a fate worse than death." Notwithstanding Baldwin, Rab became a Cambridge don. He deserted the common room for Commons after marrying Sydney Courtauld...