Word: toryism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prerequisite for any lasting peace. Aware that in Britain all gains are made by compromise and that men who stick by their principles are rare in public life, the British people have reserved a spot in their thinking and in their affection for Eden as a spokesman of liberal Toryism...
...picture of Churchill the Statesman is gained through his own words. Out this week, Blood, Sweat, and Tears is a collection of his public pronouncements from May 1938 to February 1941. They throw into high relief the massive stability and conviction, aged through years of politics into an enlightened Toryism, that fought almost singlehanded against the indecision and bloodlessness that spawned Munich. In their simple eloquence they mirror (and helped cause) the reawakening of a people's faith. Excerpts...
...Keynote speaker was horny-handed, dynamic Ernest Bevin, who since 1910 has slugged and plugged for organized labor, is now Minister of Labor. "The British labor movement came to the rescue of this nation and the Commonwealth at the blackest hour of its history," he shouted, assailing Toryism with fighting words born of confidence in the growing power of Labor. The reconstruction of the world, he declared, must come about "through harnessing the rising masses of Labor, to whom the future really belongs." "Pink-tea diplomats" and "court-circular society" he dismissed as adjuncts of an already defunct age, while...