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Leader of the House of Lords, and Lord Privy Seal, but his real specialty is foreign policy leadership within the Tory Party itself. Churchill and Salisbury frequently disagree. The old man respects Foreign Secretary Eden's competence and Chancellor Rab Butler's strength, but Lord Salisbury alone can shut Sir Winston up. Long legs sprawled under the table, long fingers drumming quietly, Bobbety has scolded Churchill on such touchy subjects as a Big Four conference (which Salisbury thinks is foolish) and the recognition of Red China ("a particularly futile example of appeasement"). He thus is in a better...
With their No. 1 man out of commission as well as their No. 2 man, the Tories had to drop the mantle of responsibility on someone else. Churchill's choice was one of the party's younger but more impressive figures, 50-year-old Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, the able and coldly aloof Chancellor of the Exchequer. So-called theoretician of the Tory Party, Rab Butler was born in India, the son of a British civil servant, became a Cambridge don after chalking up a brilliant scholastic record there, married the heiress of the wealthy Courtauld textile empire...
While Churchill is away. Rab Butler will handle the top-level paper work and Tory cabinet meetings. In the House of Commons he will be assisted by Captain Harry Crookshank, the Conservatives' able House leader, and the party's frail Grey Eminence, Lord Salisbury, will be acting Foreign Secretary...
...best economic tidings in years came to the people of Britain when Chancellor of the Exchequer "Rab" Butler announced all but one of these moves...
...stayed at home and told the House of Commons that "nothing can be more ridiculous than [our] straining every nerve . . . to export goods to the one market [the U.S.] in all the world that does not need them . . . whereas all over the world there are [Communist] markets waiting . . ." Even Rab Butler, the commonsensical Tory Chancellor who has done much to put Britain back on its feet, worried that a Republican Congress might undo 20 years of reduced Democratic tariffs. "We have shown we are ready to make sacrifices," said Butler, referring to his "trade, not aid" policy. "The other side...