GREAT BRITAIN: The Heir

Never had Anthony Eden seemed more quietly confident or the Tory faithful more pleased with him. In Blackpool's Empress ballroom, 4,100 delegates to the annual Tory Party conference gave him a two-minute ovation and burst into For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Even dapper Julian Amery, who last year led the diehard imperialists in an attack on Eden's decision to evacuate Suez, had only praise for Eden's achievements at the London Conference: "Far from renouncing our imperial mission, this gives us the chance to lead the world once more."

But despite the cheers there was an underlying tension. Nearly all...

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