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Side by side, the President of the U.S. and the Prime Minister of Great Britain rode to the U.S. Air Force base in Bermuda on a grey, drizzly morning this week. At the base they chatted amiably for a while before the President boarded the Columbine II for the four-hour flight to Washington. "I hope I am not making you late for church," said Dwight Eisenhower. "Oh no," Harold Macmillan assured him. After a cordial parting, Ike climbed aboard and Mac raised both arms in a farewell V. The historic four-day Big Two conference that had just ended...
That word came from Sen. Hennings (D-Mo.), one of a sizable group invited to the White House from the Capitol to hear Eisenhower report on his Bermuda conference with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Great Britain...
...long Exuma Sound to be welcomed by warm sun and blue sky. Behind, through the veil of rain, lay the ship's Norfolk pier and beyond that Ike's own pier, the White House. On the horizon: the ragged smudge of Cat Island. To the northeast lay Bermuda and a highest-level conference of the Anglo-American allies...
...midweek Canberra (symbolically, the only U.S. Navy cruiser named for a foreign capital,* and for a British Commonwealth metropolis at that) was due in Hamilton, Bermuda, to be welcomed by Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Once ashore, Ike faced a four-day conference that might well range over the major problems of the globe...
...Ocean Club overlooking Bermuda's blue-green waters, President Dwight Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan planned to eat together, drink together, perhaps golf together for four days. These old friends of World War II days (when Macmillan was British Resident Minister at Ike's Algiers headquarters) had no formal agenda but much on their minds. Their main problem was to reestablish, between two nations, the working relationship that was shaken by Britain's decision to throw in with France and Israel on Suez...