Rab Butler novel "The Big One", leading to his assassination by resistance forces. In the alternative history novel "Dominion" by C. J. Sansom, World War II ended in June 1940 when the British government under Lord Halifax signed a peace treaty with Germany in Berlin. In November 1952, Butler was Foreign Secretary in the Cabinet of Lord Beaverbrook. He is portrayed by Michael Culkin in the Netflix series "The Crown". Rab Butler Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), generally known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was
Rab Butler him “the last real policy-making Chancellor”. In the alternative reality depicted in John Wyndham's short story "Random Quest", where the Second World War did not happen, Butler is the prime minister. The story was written in 1954, when Butler acceding to the premiership was a serious possibility. Butler becomes World War II prime minister in the 2007 alternative history novel "Resistance" by Owen Sheers. However, he leads a collaborationist puppet government after Germany has largely conquered the British Isles. Butler and Lord Halifax engineered a June 1940 British surrender to Germany, and occupation, in the background to the alternative history