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Macmillan had reached back over years of blurring class lines to present Britain with a belted earl of a Prime Minister, an elegantly casual product of the cricket wickets of Eton, a toothy, grouse-shooting, extremely U member of the Establishment. Facing elections, he had placed his Conservative Party in the hands of a member of the House of Lords who has not had to run for elective office since he inherited his title twelve years...
...deep divisions that the power struggle left in the Tory Party and get down to the business of running the country. But he must also prepare for next year's election, in which the Tories, after twelve years in power, face the eager Laborites-and the 14th earl faces that aggressive working-class champion, Harold Wilson. Right now, the odds are overwhelmingly against Home. But whatever else he did, Harold Macmillan did not mean to pick a loser...
...successor was hailed with unmixed joy. To the 2,000-odd people of Coldstream, a Berwickshire border village flanked by 5,000 acres of Home's ancestral lands, the news of the laird's new job stirred the greatest celebration since the 6th Lord became the 1st Earl in 1605. The clan once foregathered also at Douglas Castle, or "Castle Dangerous," as Sir Walter Scott called it, on their Lanarkshire estate, but in 1937, when the 13th Earl discovered a coalmine beneath his living room, he tore down the 176-year-old castle to get at it. Their...
Denobilization. The grey-haired, blue-eyed earl has none of the hauteur of many English noblemen, and he has a pugnacious streak that his fragile air belies. In the Cabinet and the country at large, Home's blunt, hardheaded performance as Foreign Secretary has won him a degree of respect accorded to only one of his postwar predecessors, Labor's late Ernie Bevin. Remembering Churchill's innocence of economics and social problems, many politicians believed that Home-Sweet-Home, as Winston called him, could easily fill the same gaps in his experience...
...from Lord Curzon; in 1940 Winston Churchill edged out Lord Halifax. Today the old rule need no longer keep talented men out of the Commons, thanks to a bill passed last summer that enables any "reluctant peer" to renounce his titles for life if he wishes.* The 14th Earl of Home will soon be legally and for the rest of his life Sir Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home. His next move will be to run for Parliament from a safe Tory seat. However, he is eager to represent a Scottish constituency, and since no suitable seat will be vacant...