Volume 30, Number 16 · October 27, 1983
Can Conservatism Work?
By Noel Annan
The Squandered Peace: The World, 1945-1975
by John Vaizey
Hodder and Stoughton, 455 pp., £8.95 (paper)
Modern Times: The World from the Twenties to the Eighties
by Paul Johnson
Harper and Row, 817 pp., $27.95
The British Political Tradition, Vol. I: The Rise of Collectivism
by W.H. Greenleaf
Methuen, 336 pp., $45.00 each
The British Political Tradition, Vol. II: The Ideological Heritage
by W.H. Greenleaf
Methuen, 579 pp., $45.00 each
Crossing the floor of the House, that is to say changing one's party in Britain, has always been somewhat nerve-racking. Will old friends speak to one and how will new friends treat this potential cuckoo in the nest? Churchill had some experience in this matter, deserting his family's party as a young man for the Liberals and in the 1920s sliding back among the Conservatives when the Liberal party was split and doomed never to govern again. He said, 'Anyone can rat once; but it takes a certain ingenuity to rat twice.'
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