Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prestigious Times of London, decided to convert a gossipy background article by his youngish new political correspondent into the day's leading news story. Next morning 250,000 Britons ("The top people read the Times") learned to their intense fascination that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had lately taken Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd's arm "in a paternal grip" and proposed that Lloyd move down to a lesser government job within the next "several months...
...Bitterly, Selwyn Lloyd commented that the story could not fail to have a "bad effect on the British delegation's standing with other delegations." In London Laborite Nye Bevan wryly remarked that if Labor had said such a thing, "we should have been accused of unpatriotically stabbing the Foreign Secretary in the back in the course of international negotiations...
...days of Munich. To make matters worse, the Lloyd story had a certain plausibility. Once hailed as one of the Tory Party's coming stars ("a young man who never puts a foot wrong"), plump, pedestrian Selwyn Lloyd, 54, was all but ruined politically by being Foreign Secretary at the time of the Suez invasion, and by his disingenuous attempts to justify Suez afterward. For a long time, it was said, Harold Macmillan only kept him on as a sop to the militant Suez rebels on the Tory backbenches. But of late; Lloyd's competent diplomatic performance...
...Prime Minister Macmillan there was nothing to do but fire off a cable to Lloyd assuring him of full support and confidence, and in Parliament to remark carefully in passing that "the Foreign Secretary and I hope to carry on our work together for a long time...
...slender, well-tailored Irishman last week awakened painful memories in Britain. In the London Sunday Times, 62-year-old Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, veteran (37 years) career diplomat and sometime (1953-57) Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign Office, began publication of excerpts from his forthcoming book, The Inner Circle. The first: an eyewitness account of the momentous meeting of the European powers at Munich in September 1938. Kirkpatrick was then first secretary of the British embassy in Berlin, and delegated to help Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain deal with Hitler...