Word: harold
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...Negotiation." What touched off the talk of war was Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's joltingly tough speech rejecting Western proposals for a foreign ministers' conference on Berlin, and his calculated insult to Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, in Russia on an official peace-talking visit (see FOREIGN NEWS). In response to Khrushchev's "palpably intransigent attitude," said...
...raring, tearing two-hour speech ostensibly addressed to the electorate of Moscow's Kalinin Constituency, Khrushchev forcefully reminded the world that he could claw as well as slap backs in raucous good fellowship. Angered by the discovery that Britain's Harold Macmillan had come to Moscow with no intention of repeating Neville Chamberlain's performance at Munich, Khrushchev flatly laid down his uncompromising terms on Germany, in such a way as to demonstrate that he was not interested in reasonable accommodations. In doing so, he also inflicted a historic humiliation on Macmillan and paraded his contempt...
...feel like a lion who discovers that the bear's hug doesn't break his ribs." So said Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on the first jovial evening of his mission to Russia. This week, as he prepared to carry out the diplomatic equivalent of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, Macmillan has learned a little more about bears...
...nonaggression treaty -that he had not bothered to mention to Macmillan during more than 20 hours of supposedly intimate and frank discussion. The Cold War. From the moment Macmillan learned of Khrushchev's speech, relations between the two Premiers became a contest in coldness. In such a contest, Harold Macmillan, who prides himself on his "unflappability," was at no disadvantage. At a British embassy reception the night after Khrushchev's speech, while Mikoyan was praising his master for the stir he had created, Macmillan publicly remarked: "This is an extraordinary method of diplomacy." At luncheon next day Macmillan...
BELFAST, Northern Ireland, March 6--Prime Minister Harold Macmillan said today that he and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, canvassed "possible ideas of disarmament" in their Kremlin talks and made some progress...