WHO WILL SUCCEED SIR WINSTON?
Although dapper Anthony Eden, divorced and sick, is still the Tories’ acknowledged crown prince, a dark horse called Rab Butler, who loves books and lonely walks, is being hailed as Britain’s next prime minister
July 1 1953
BEVERLEY BAXTER
WHO WILL SUCCEED SIR WINSTON?
Although dapper Anthony Eden, divorced and sick, is still the Tories’ acknowledged crown prince, a dark horse called Rab Butler, who loves books and lonely walks, is being hailed as Britain’s next prime minister
BEVERLEY BAXTER
LONDON
AS EVERY schoolboy is aware Shakespeare put into the mouth of Malvolio those significant words: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them.” Familiar and accepted as those words undoubtedly are there is no arbitrary division into categories of men who reach such heights that the world calls them great.