Volume 15, Number 2 · July 23, 1970
Tory Stories
By Noel Annan
Superior Person
by Kenneth Rose
Weybright & Talley, 475 pp., $10.00
Baldwin
by Keith Middlemas, by John Barnes
Macmillan, 1,192 pp., $14.95
Memoirs of a Conservative: J.C.C. Davidson's Memoirs and Papers, 1910-1937
by Robert Rhodes James
Macmillan, 496 pp., $9.95
Tides of Fortune, 1495-1955
by Harold Macmillan
Harper & Row, 703 pp., $15.00
The substantial victory of the Conservative Party in the British General Election has been the summer surprise. For long months almost immediately after the last election, the polls had shown the public's disillusionment with Labour rule: every forecast was of a Tory landslide. But the pundits reminded one that every government picks up in popularity when it chooses to put the issue to the test, and that at last Labour's success with the British balance of payments had enabled them to reinflate the economy.
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