THE TORY TEAM

Within 24 hours of his return to power, Winston Churchill had chosen the key men in his cabinet. All are his close, trusted friends. All are men of wealth. All but two are old-guard Tories. The team:

deputy" Anthony and Eden, Churchill's heir debonair apparent "trusted -Foreign Secretary, deputy P.M.

and Leader of the House of Commons, a taxing triple assignment. A great -great-grandson of the last British Governor of Maryland, Eden has a proper Tory background -county aristocracy, Eton. Oxford (high honors in Oriental languages), a good army regiment, Whitehall and May fair. Respected for his integrity and his success as Britain's Foreign Secretary during the war, liked because he never gets personal or partisan, he has raised high hopes but has not yet fulfilled them. His critics consider him uninspiringly conventional.

Richard Austen Butler, 48> able intellectual and pamphleteer of the party -Chancellor of the Ex chequer. This makes him the Tories' No. 3 man, and heir to Britain's growing sterling debts, tum bling gold and dollar reserves and adverse balance of trade. Born in India, son of an academic fam (two of Harrow's headmasters have been Butlers), "Rab" Butler won highest hon ors at Cambridge (double "first" in French and history), married into the multi-million-dollar Courtaulds Ltd.

rayon fortune, was elected to Parlia ment at 26. He promoted the Education Act of 1944, which overhauled schooling in England and Wales, and as a result, he became Britain's first Minister of Education. Butler is a spokesman for the party's aggressive "young Turks." Lord Woolton, 68, the florid, white-haired department-store tycoon and campaign organizer for the Tories -Lord President of the Council, with special responsibilities for food and agriculture. Tories call him "Uncle Fred" the Laborites call him "Uncle Woof-Woof" -in both cases behind his back. As Brit ain's wartime Food Minister, he did an amazingly efficient job of fusing the nation by substituting such cold comforts as dried eggs and Woolton Pie (cod and potatoes) for the beefy luxuries of the British dinner table -and instead of becoming the most unpopular man in Britain, emerged as a nationally respected and almost popular figure.

Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, 51, a Scotsman who became one of Britain's famous barristers in his career, King's Counsel at 33. then Solicitor General and Attorney General -Home Secretary and also Minister for Welsh Affairs (a new post created by Churchill to appease Welsh nationalists). Fyfe was a prosecutor at the Niirnberg war crime trials, has a special interest in transport, industrial development, town & country planning. A shrewd legal brain and a strong Tory figure, he was offered the job of Minister of Labor, but turned it down. The re ported reason: the Home Secretary ship is less of a hot spot, offers more of a political future. He is married to Actor Rex Harrison's sister.

Lord Ismay, 64, the square-jawed general who stood at Churchill's shoulder through World War II as chief of staff -Secretary for Commonwealth Relations. A traditional British soldier (Sandhurst, service in India and "Pug" Africa, Ismay six-goal was polo), indispensable competent to Churchill during the war. He "knew exactly how7 my mind was working from to day," Churchill has writ ten. In he was military adviser in India to Viceroy Lord Mountbatten. an assignment in which he won the trust and admiration of Indians. In picking Ismay for the Commonwealth job, Churchill hoped that the Indians' regard for the general would counter balance their suspicions of Churchill himself. First reports from India indicated that it would.

Oliver Lyttelton, 58, an aristocratic industrial ist (metals and utilities), who shunned politics until Churchill made him wartime President of the Board of Trade -Colonial Secretary. An Eton and Cambridge man, Lyttelton distinguished him self as a soldier in World War I, once came back to headquarters with 40 German prisoners who had surrendered after one look at his huge (6 ft. 4 in., 225 Ibs.) frame. In the last war.

he rationed Britain's clothes and industrial materials, organized Britain's supply of munitions to Russia, represented the war cabinet in the Middle East. He is now chairman of the pow erful Associated Electrical Industries, Ltd. A poor but improving speaker, he has a reserved, house-party charm plus a sharp political mind.

Sir Walter Turner Monckton, 60, like Fyfe, one of Britain's brilliant law yers -Minister of Labor. A descend ant of a British governor general of New York, Sir Walter starred at cricket (as wicket-keeper), is an enthusiastic flyer, since his early days at the bar has been a big-fee lawyer.

(One client: the Nizam of Hyderabad, perhaps the richest man in the world. Another: Edward VIII, to whom he was official legal adviser during the abdication proceedings.) Lord Salisbury, 58, fifth Marquess, and scion of the ancient and honorable Cecil family, which has provided British leaders since Elizabeth's day -Lord Privy Seal, a post he held for one wartime year. This is a job which in itself has few responsibilities but normally houses the P.M.'s troubleshooter. Salisbury, whose full name is Robert Ar thur James Gascoyne-Cecil (and who was Viscount Cranborne until 1947), is Eton, Oxford and Gren adier Guards. A lean-faced, tall, friendly man with a grin which contradicts an old claim that " Cecil never smiles except when another Cecil enters the room," he is well versed in foreign affairs, and may be called on to ease Eden's heavy load. He quit Neville Chamberlain's government in 1938 when his friend Eden did. With Rab Butler, Salisbury makes up the Tory tactical brains and, like Butler, sup ports the party's young Turks.

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