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With Eden on top, Rab Butler will rise strongly into the No. 2 role and stand in line to be next P.M. after Eden (see below). The man most likely to succeed Eden as Foreign Secretary: Minister of Housing Harold Macmillan, 60, a suave, tough Scotsman who has proved one of the outstanding men of the Cabinet. Macmillan has been getting houses built at a rate of 300,000 a year-a pace that many had thought unattainable...
...Richard Austen Butler. Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, misses no point. If an opposition speaker misstates what he said, Rab is quickly on his feet to set the record straight in his clear, flat voice. If goaded, his reply is quick and effective. Hugh Gaitskell, Labor's lanky and self-confident economist and Butler's predecessor at the Treasury, pricks him with the barbed wish that some day he may hear a Butler speech which does not talk about "unity, stability, flexibility, and all the other 'itys.' " "Those are all nouns or virtues," Butler...
This pale, chilly man is an odd fish in the Tory school-an intellectual in a party which prefers character to brains, a political philosopher in a party which habitually relies on dimly felt tradition, a remote ascetic in a party of sociable men. But Rab Butler, 51, is the Tory Party's brightest rising star. In his two years as Chancellor, he has done much to restore his country's pride and place. As party man, he has given his party new life, established himself as a coming Prime Minister...
...Breathe. Both as Chancellor and Tory, Rab Butler was the prophet of a doctrine notably neglected in Socialist Britain: freedom is worth having, and no amount of security will buy it. Its price is hard work-by a nation, industry, or individual. For Socialist restrictions, he substituted incentive. For Socialist regulation, he staked his faith on the British character. For Socialist "fair shares," he proposed freedom to earn more. He abolished most government purchases of imports, scrapped the "utility" scheme which had kept many manufacturers confined to standardized models, struck off price controls, lifted rationing, turned builders loose to build...
Rising Man. Rab Butler knows where he is going because he laid down the road. It is a new road for Toryism, and Butler is a new kind of Tory. He belongs neither to the aristocracy of Churchill and Eden nor the business world of Lord Woolton and Neville Chamberlain, but to a long line of scholars and civil servants. His new Toryism accepts the welfare state and its social services with enthusiasm-but with an insistence that people be treated as individuals. It maintains a man's right to be secure collectively, but insists on his right...