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Wave from the Left. Since Macleod belongs to the young Turk Tory faction led by Chancellor of the Exchequer Rab Butler, Churchill carefully balanced the appointment by making one of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden's proteges Colonial Minister: Henry Hopkinson, a handsome ex-Foreign Office man with an American wife. To complete the reshuffle, Churchill sent the outgoing Colonial Minister, Right-Winger Alan Lennox Boyd, to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation, to replace John Maclay, who resigned after being sent to a sickbed by a job that was too much...
...first six months have made 49-year-old Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard Austen ("Rab") Butler, the "young Turk of Toryism," the fastest-growing man in the Conservative Party. His budget, a brave one, shapes up already as the outstanding success of the half-year. The drain on Britain's lifeblood, the dollar reserves, was slowed and the gap between dollars spent and dollars earned was closed last month to $71 million, chiefly as a result of Butler measures...
...Butler's star rises, that of Eden's, the party dauphin, falls. Should Churchill step aside soon, the betting is that Eden would succeed him-but if Churchill stays on for two years, Rab Butler might well be his heir. Churchill is muttering that he might retire after Queen Elizabeth's coronation, which this week was set for June 2, 1953. Churchill himself has had some downs as well as ups. Some Tories grumble that he has been too arbitrary and too heedless of getting the public behind him. Yet he is still capable of rising...
...place of the golden promises made on the hustings of more red meat and fewer controls. In a local election, depression-ridden Lancashire had just voted Laborite for the first time in its history. Eleven of the rebellious Tory backbenchers seized on the Lancashire slump to demand that Chancellor Rab Butler lift the purchase tax on textiles. When he would not, four more Tories joined the revolt...
...promised British housewives that the Tories would provide "more red meat," and would not tamper with Labor's food subsidies. Once back in office, the Tories behaved not as Lord Woolton promised, but as circumstances compelled. Down went the meat ration; up went food prices as Chancellor "Rab" Butler reduced food subsidies. "Uncle Fred" Woolton (who became a household name to Britons during his able wartime administration of food rationing) was plainly embarrassed by Labor's taunts about broken promises...