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Agitated party leaders Lord Woolton and Anthony Eden scurried to Keynoter Winston Churchill in his cerise-&-cream, modernistic suite. After hours of discussion, morning found cigar-smoking Churchill sitting up in bed, dictating a new and more soothing speech in 500-word blocks to two secretaries in relays.* That afternoon, while 4,000 people jammed every balcony and corridor, Senior Oracle Winston Churchill gave the young rebels a few answers, then cannily diverted their attention to subjects on which they could happily agree. Clutching his coat lapel with one hand and stabbing the air with the other, he strode into...
Last week they thought they had found one. Conservative Headquarters named as new party chairman popular, brilliant ex-Food Minister Lord Woolton, who before the war was not a member of any party...
...comments on the projected $4.4 billion U.S. loan to Britain-the deal nobody liked. Americans resented being called Shylocks for having made the loan at quasi-commercial terms. In England, the House of Lords accepted it even more bitterly than had the House of Commons (TIME, Dec. 24). Lord Woolton called it "degradation." The loan was linked to Bretton Woods* as twin shackles on Britain's economic freedom...
Pompous Labor Lord Strabolgi (the tenth of his line) backslapped portly Labor Lord Quibell (first of his line), an ex-Midlands bricklayer. Lord and Lady Woolton (he top-hatted, she bejeweled) nodded to Sir John and Lady Anderson (he in formal cutaway, she in wedge sandals). Opposition Leader Winston Churchill, in striped pants and spotted bow tie, came with Anthony Eden, magnificent in formal clothes and studied carelessness...
...Woolton's successor will, it appears, soon have to reduce these amounts further. With supplies of meat and cheese still shrinking in the U.S., and new demands coming from the liberated countries, the news was broken to Britons this week that U.S. meat exports to Britain would be cut from 207 million lbs. to 25 million...