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When it came to oratory in the last campaign, no Tory was more outspoken than white-haired Lord Woolton, 68, the party chairman. From the hustings, he 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...
...Daily Herald got wind of the story, and hoping to divert attention from Labor's own dissentions, splashed it all over Page One. At that point Winston Churchill, who does not usually deign to acknowledge such reports, issued a sharp personal statement: "There is no question of Lord Woolton's resigning. He has the Prime Minister's full and continuing confidence . . ." Said beaming Uncle Fred, obviously grateful for Churchill's support: "Neither my colleagues nor I have any regrets for what we have done...
...Opposition exploded with a roar. "Woolton! Woolton!" stormed Laborites, shaking their fists at the Peers' Gallery where, next to the Duke of Edinburgh, looking down on the budget proceeding, sat Lord Woolton, one of the powers in the Tory Party. As wartime Minister of Food, Woolton had introduced food subsidies ; during last autumn's election campaign he said emphatically that the Conservatives did not plan to cut them. "More broken promises!" cried a Labor...
Churchill's task was to dramatize a new time of trouble for Britain. The country resounded to ministerial predictions of doom. Anthony Eden: "The country is in acute and continuing danger." Food Minister Woolton: "We may not be able to maintain the new meat ration" (16? worth a week). Gloomiest of all was Chancellor of the Exchequer R. A. Butler, whose painful lot it was to propose a new national belt-tightening in Parliament. Warned "Rab" Butler: "We face the risk of being bankrupt, idle and hungry." To weather the storms, at home & abroad, Britain needed Churchill...
rayon fortune, was elected to Parlia ment at 26. He promoted the Education Act of 1944, which overhauled schooling in England and Wales, and as a result, he became Britain's first Minister of Education. Butler is a spokesman for the party's aggressive "young Turks." Lord Woolton, 68, the florid, white-haired department-store tycoon and campaign organizer for the Tories -Lord President of the Council, with special responsibilities for food and agriculture. Tories call him "Uncle Fred" the Laborites call him "Uncle Woof-Woof" -in both cases behind his back. As Brit ain's wartime...