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...could start by a solemn pact of nonaggression." Of all the innumerable Communist proposals for settling East-West tensions, few have been more often repeated than this. Yet last week it was no Communist who said it, but a true-blue Tory-Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Said Macmillan in a broadcast to the nation: "It would do no harm. It might do good...
...Foreign Secretary. More than any other man, Harold Macmillan had inspired the NATO summit meeting in Paris-a feat which gave Britons the mildly exhilarating feeling that their counsels were again carrying their old weight in the world's chancelleries. Last week, as he prepared to depart on a five-week tour of Commonwealth nations, Macmillan was hailed expansively by some Tory supporters as "the Foreign Secretary of the West...
Nothing that Harold Macmillan or his colleagues said implied any break or even quarrel with the U.S. This was talk and criticism of the kind that distinguishes true allies from satellites. Beyond domestic political situations it was prompted by a feeling that the West as a unit must re-examine some of its international assumptions in the light of Sputnik...
...London the first reaction was: "He's mad-stark, staring mad." Mintoff's next move was to fire off a cable to Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd proposing a "truce," and urging that British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan intervene with the Admiralty to get the dockyard firings canceled. A day later came news that the firings had been cut from 40 to 30, and that alternative jobs would be offered all 30 discharged workmen...
Back in London, Foot proceeded to map out for Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and the Colonial Office the road he favored. Best guess as to Sir Hugh's recommendations: immediate talks either in Cyprus or London with Archbishop Makarios, leader of the Greek Cypriot community whom the British still refused to allow to return to Cyprus. Object of the talks: to agree upon a set period of self-government for Cyprus, after which the Greek majority (80%) of the island's inhabitants could decide in favor of union (enosis) with Greece if they still wanted...