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...first lesson in the Sunday service at the Church of St. James the Apostle in the Essex village of Greenstead Green was read to the congregation by that distinguished parishioner, Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler. The text was from Isaiah. "How beautiful upon the mountains," read Butler, "are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings ... of good...
...days later, on Budget Day, Rab Butler rose in the House of Commons and passed out to Britons the best economic tidings in years...
...about a quarter of what Britain should have as leader and banker of the sterling area). Now came a reward: H.M.'s government was about to add two ounces a week to the Briton's sugar ration, and soon would be able to abandon sugar rationing entirely. Rab Butler accepted the pleased outcries with one of his rare smiles...
Churchill Cheers. "This budget moves for the first time in many years in a new direction," concluded Butler. "We can now look to a more hopeful way. We can lighten our load and liberate our energies." Encased to the last in his impenetrable Oxford-don manner, Rab Butler sat down. The Laborites sat in morose silence: he had left them few chinks to shoot at. Two or three Tories had brought along their silk toppers, the traditional thing to wave on jubilatory occasions, and now waved them with the fervor of shipwreck survivors signaling smoke on the horizon. Prime Minister...
Visiting Churchill at his Kent estate, Chartwell, one day last week, Rab Butler pleaded with the P.M. against a fall election and in favor of a tough budget which might not be popular in an election year, but would be helpful later on. The Prime Minister, his nostrils aflare with the tempting spring air, said he would think it over...