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Personality. In the House of Commons, where Anthony Eden has long solicited and won the esteem of his opponents. Macmillan prefers the acid remark and hypodermic tongue. This method enlivens debate, but it also multiplies his enemies on the Labor side. Sample Macmillanism: "The brave new world has turned into nothing but a fish-and-Cripps age." Macmillan's speeches are carefully prepared and lucid, the wit rehearsed until it seems almost impromptu. Result: Next to Churchill himself, he is the Tories' best speaker.
Left on his own, he may give Britain a tougher foreign policy than Eden did, being less compromising by temperament. Last month, supporting the Churchill government's decision to build an H-bomb, Harold Macmillan remarked: "Until the passions of mankind can be cooled by reason or by love, they must be chained by fear, and there is no other way."