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...Aims. Within the quiet Cabinet room differences were minimized. Richard Austen Butler, who is in effect deputy premier though his title is only Lord Privy Seal, did not quarrel with the desirability of Eden's objectives in wanting to fight on. But, said "Rab" Butler pointedly, he himself had just made a speech, which he had thought was in line with Eden's views, saying that Britain had intervened in Egypt only to stop the fighting. How could he go back to the House and say now that Britain refused the cease-fire even though the other combatants...
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...
...said: "We should use the authority of the state not to control and harry the individual but to curb the power of states which arise within the state, just as kings did with overmighty subjects of old." By the time he had finished, Conservatives were exchanging assurances that Rab Butler was back in the fray. "Now we don't need to worry about where to find our next Prime Minister," said...
...Back-Bench Boys. Later, appointed chairman of the Conservative and Unionist Associations, i.e., the Tory Party. Rab introduced Sir Anthony Eden. Delegates waited impatiently while the Prime Minister traveled through page after page of foolscap manuscript, to survey the domestic scene. But what about Suez...
...trouble was economic. The British public was bewildered and resentful. Only two years ago the Tories were boasting of a boom. Last fall Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler had put on an "amber light"-nothing to worry about, just a little caution needed. Last week, though no Tory minister dared use the term, the word on the tip of their tongues was "crisis...