Word: toryism
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...wife, and about to step down as Chancellor of the Exchequer, "Rab" had helped to make a tepid conference more tepid, and had lost his place in the leadership stakes to the debonair Macmillan. Now he bounced back with the kind of clear, practical talk that shaped the "New Toryism" with which the party won its way back to power in 1950. With wit and humor, Rab Butler apprised the party of the ever-changing path to office: "In the Middle Ages you bullied your way to power. In the classical age you bribed your way to power...
They Can't Win. "Britons today," cabled TIME'S London Bureau Chief Andre Laguerre, "lack much of their old self-confidence. The recent advent of a young Queen, the talk of a new Elizabethan era, the dynamic character of a new self-confident Toryism, the conquest of Everest by Edmund Hillary and of time by Four-Minute Miler Roger Bannister, are all factors which in the last few years have combined to bolster that waning confidence. Princess Margaret will start no revolution whatever she may do, but things are now so far advanced that...
...Great Britain's Conservative Party and the first solidly entrenched Brit ish government in the past five years. In smartly winning his gamble on a well-timed quick election, Sir Anthony Eden won his own five-year mandate to govern Great Britain under the banners of en lightened Toryism, and his Conservatives more than trebled the thin parliamentary majority Eden had inherited from Sir Winston Churchill...
...raising demagoguery and raking of old hatred, the Tories had nothing to match Nye Bevan. But then there were many who regarded Bevan as a liability when it came to getting the votes where Labor most needed them: among the middle class, which distrusted the upper-class overtones of Toryism but disliked the raucous dogmatism of Labor...
...services-and Rab Butler knows it. It cannot be done, he believes, by more security, more plans, more taking in of each other's washing. It can be done by more freedom and hard work. That is the challenge-and the hope-that Rab Butler and the new Toryism offer Britain...