Word: harold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 had fulfilled its essential purpose: to repair the damage that Britain's desperate armed adventure in Egypt had done...
...Spilled Milk." The urgent need for repair was evident all along to both the U.S. and Britain; as soon as Harold Macmillan succeeded broken Anthony Eden as Prime Minister, a Big Two meeting was inevitable. Ike himself suggested Bermuda as the place, feeling that it might help soothe the British hurt feelings to hold the conference in British territory...
From the start, the tone of the meeting was cordial. Macmillan was waiting at dockside with outstretched hand as the President, arriving in Hamilton harbor aboard the missile cruiser Canberra, stepped ashore from a U.S. Navy launch. "Harold, how are you?" Ike said warmly. That evening, the Big Two's big four-President, Prime Minister, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd-gathered for a roast-beef dinner in the private dining room of Macmillan's suite. Despite white dinner jackets, it was a friendly and informal meeting. Before ranging off into the problems...
Britain's new Prime Minister Harold Macmillan prides himself on being a blunt man, and he was blunt when he addressed a Conservative Party political rally at Leicester last week. Said he: "There is no difference between Socialism and Communism, except this: Socialism is soft, Communism is hard; Socialism is pink, Communism is red. Socialism gets you down bit by bit by a kind of anesthetic process. It might be called mercy killing. Communism just knocks you in the head...
First to weaken in the face of this stalemate was the government. Late last week, despite all of Harold Macmillan's sermons against a new round of wage increases, the government-owned national railways bought off the threatening railway workers with a 5% increase, though the cost of living has gone up only 3% since their 7% wage increase last year. A few minutes later came the announcement that able, fast-rising Minister of Labor Iain Macleod, 43, had persuaded the shipyard employers and union leaders to agree to face-to-face negotiation of their differences...