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Bitter Man. Macmillan made no pretense that he was happy about his new job. "The exact opposite is the truth." he told his constituents rather bitterly. "I have only agreed at the personal request of the Prime Minister." Even in his brief term as Foreign Secretary, Eden had found him too independent-minded ("Macmillan has never taken kindly to his master's voice," observed the News Chronicle). Specifically, outspoken Harold Macmillan was much less optimistic than Eden about the value of negotiation with the Russians, was angrily ready to cancel or postpone next spring's scheduled visit...
...Eden wants to keep his personal control of the Foreign Office, where he served so long under Churchill, and in Selwyn Lloyd has a younger man with whom he has worked closely before...
...replace Lloyd at Defense, Eden appointed Minister of Labor Walter Monckton. who had wanted to leave the government to earn more money as one of Britain's highest-paid legal brains. Five ministers who lost their jobs were consoled with the customary peerages. The total result left the Cabinet heavily loaded with Old Etonians (half of the 18 Cabinet-rank ministers...
Lost Leader. What was worse, the inadequacy of the changes seemed to have loosed the pent-up criticisms of Eden's first seven months in office. There was dissatisfaction with the government's failure to deal with the Cyprus rebellion. Its domestic measures have often seemed halting, uncertain and blundering. "There is a terrifying lack of authority at the top," wrote Commentator Henry Fairlie in the pro-Tory Spectator. "It becomes more and more clear that, contrary to what many Conservatives said, Sir Winston Churchill was far more important as a directing, energizing, initiating force than even...
...Great Adventure. Arne Sucksdorff's camera glides like a serpent through an Eden in Sweden, and the natural world like an Eve reveals her tender, terrible secrets (TIME, June...