In this interpretation, Anthony Eden and much of Britain's political leadership struggled to adapt after two exhausting world wars. Their wartime experience did not equip them for every problem in the changed international system. Distrust of potential successors encouraged them to remain in office. That failure to make room for another generation is offered as one explanation for Britain's difficulties in the 1960s and 1970s.
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War-weary leaders and Britain's succession problem
Political exhaustion and distrust of successors are offered as reasons Britain's wartime leaders struggled to adapt to the postwar world.