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...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...
Wasted Years? And then there was Lancashire-a crucial place, Lancashire, with 10% of the seats in Commons and most of them closely held. Behind his Frigidaire exterior, Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler was warmly familiar with the Lancashiremen's chief concern-with textile mills down, they are not sharing in the prosperity that bathes most of Britain. The Laborites were crying that the Tories had wasted their 3½ years in power. "Wasted years!" snorted Butler. "Do they think the years were wasted which produced 1,000,000 houses...
...There is in the international scene a feeling of spring after a long winter of discontent," cried Rab Butler at Liverpool. "It would be folly to change the government, which has done so much, just when perhaps we may win the first rewards of patient waiting...
...Rab Butler turned up in Newcastle, the shipbuilding, coal-mining Labor stronghold where in 1932 more than a third of the working force was on the dole, and where nobody forgets Jarrow, the nearby "town that died...
...rich Welsh voice behind Bevanite candidates and Bevanite notions. In a manner reminiscent of days gone by, when he likened the Tories to "vermin," Nye got off to an impish start by likening the Tories to the biblical Gadarene swine. ("I would rather move in a herd," replied Tory Rab Butler last week, "than be a solitary, lonely and disgruntled...