Word: statescraft
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What this means to so zestful a plunger in statescraft as Winston Churchill may be sensed by recalling that eleven months ago the Laborites were tearing his estimates to tatters. At that time the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden, the only Laborite ever to be Chancellor of the Exchequer, declared formally: "I predict that ... the Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] will find himself having to face the country with a deficit...
...return to England, he received?like several of the then rising generation?his political apprenticeship as assistant private secretary to the great Lord Salisbury. Once embarked upon a career of statescraft, he rose rapidly and held many of the more important cabinet positions. He did not become Prime Minister for the all-important reason that, since Lord Salisbury's third term of office (1895-1902), no British Premier has been a member of the House of Lords, and it now seems to be an established custom that Premiers must henceforth be members of the House of Commons...
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