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Britain has climbed out of the shadow of austerity, and is "steering a fairly even course between the primrose path and the wasteland," Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler assured an audience of prosperous merchants at the annual Lord Mayor's Banquet in London. The evidence...
...Take our finances," said the Prime Minister, singling out Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler. "Two years ago, we were sliding into bankruptcy. Now, at last, we may claim solvency." Churchill paused, squinted over his spectacles, and suddenly demanded: "What is the use of being a famous race and nation ... if at the end of the week you cannot pay your housekeeping bill?" He looked inquiringly at Lady Churchill, and the delighted audience roared...
...office, as he had always wished? Or should he hand over his favor to his faithful friend and (nephew-in-law) Anthony Eden, while he was still able to decide the succession? Eden's own health, and the ascending political popularity of two other Tory cabinet members, Rab Butler and Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, made the issue important...
...Regency Act. said Rab Butler, should be altered. The plan is to make Queen Elizabeth's husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, regent. The Queen feels it proper that Prince Charles's father, not his 22-year-old aunt, should train the boy for the responsibilities of the throne and shoulder those responsibilities as regent, if need...
...sampling of its 4,500,000 readers, Britain's largest tabloid, the breezy London Mirror, asked what Tory they wanted to succeed Churchill if Churchill should retire. Results: Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, 50.36%; Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler 35.5%. "The striking feature of the poll is the solid measure of support for Mr. Butler," observed the Mirror. "Even two years ago his name would have meant little to the public." A Gallup poll taken last April confirmed the Mirror's observation. Then the result was: Eden 64%; Butler...