London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971. Second Impression [stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1], 274 pages. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Index. No dust jacket present. Minor wear. Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, KG, CH, PC, DL (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), also known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative Party politician; he was effectively Deputy Prime Minister to Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan, although he only held the official title for a brief period in 1962–63. He was one of his party's leaders in promoting the post-war consensus through which the major parties largely agreed on the main points of domestic policy until the 1970s; it is sometimes known as "Butskellism" from a fusion of his name with that of his Labour counterpart, Hugh Gaitskell. Butler had a distinguished academic career before he entered Parliament in 1929. He helped to pass the Government of India Act 1935. Entering the Cabinet in 1941, he served as President of the Board of Education (1941–1945) and oversaw the Education Act 1944. When the Conservatives returned to power in 1951, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer (1951–1955), Home Secretary (1957–1962), First Secretary of State (1962–1963) and Foreign Secretary (1963–1964). Butler had an exceptionally long ministerial career and was one of only two British politicians (the other being John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon) to have served in three of the four Great Offices of State but never to have been Prime Minister for which he was passed over in 1957 and 1963. In 1965, Butler was appointed Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. More

Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 25 cm. xxi, [1], 178 pages. Figure. Table. Westview Press release laid in. Minor edge soiling noted. Richard William Butler, AC (born 13 May 1942) is a retired Australian public servant, United Nations weapons inspector, and a former Governor of Tasmania. In 1983 he was appointed as Australia's Permanent Representative on Disarmament to the United Nations in Geneva. He was next appointed Australian Ambassador to Thailand, and played a major part in the Cambodian peace settlement, working closely with then Foreign Minister Gareth Evans. He was Australian Ambassador to the United Nations from 1992 to 1997. More

New York: Public Affairs Press, 2001. New Edition. First Printing. 262, wraps, maps, notes on sources, index, some wear to cover edges, black mark on bottom edge. Map by Anita Karl and Jim Kemp. The author headed UNSCOM in 1997, and has been active in nuclear weapons elimination programs for years. He tells the inside story of the United Nations' failed attempt to stop Iraq's construction of weapons of mass destruction. More