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...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...
...party. Nye Bevan did not still the talk when, four days after the Commons mutiny, he vowed before a Socialist meeting that he would not promise to get in line in the future. The Bevanites would try to persuade the rest of Labor to join them in fighting Toryism, said Bevan. "But if we cannot go on together, we shall go on alone." Presumably neither Nye Bevan nor Clement Attlee wanted a divorce, for such a split might mean a Tory government for a long time to come. But pride and strong wills were at issue. Even if there...
This intake of youth is the most important factor in the new Toryism. Nearly 100 young or youngish new Tory M.P.s invaded the House of Commons after the 1950 elections. I have talked with many of them, and found them impressive. Dynamic and free of prejudice, they surely represent the most hopeful element in British politics today. Coming from the middle classes rather than the great families, they have not yet inspired the confidence of the mass of workers. Given the chance, that should be only a question of time...
...biggest question about Toryism today is whether the "Young Turks" will soon be having a decisive say in making party policy. They are not conservative, for they seek change. They are not reactionary, for they do not want their party to return to what it was before. They are creators, architects of a new Britain which can merge the best of her traditions with the lessons learned from the past. The young Tories are typified by David Eccles (TIME, Oct. 8), himself the most talked-about young Tory, and one of the most impressive...
...fact, several of the most important Tories after Churchill are sympathetic with the new Toryism...