Word: harold
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LONDON, March 1--Prime Minister Harold Macmillan will return from Moscow tomorrow determined to urge the Western Allies into a summit conference as the only way of removing the Soviet threat to Berlin, responsible British sources said...
...borrowed finery, Moss Bros. As the visitors emerged into the unseasonable warmth (41°), a Soviet honor guard sprang to attention, bayonets flashing in the sunlight, and a military band broke into God Save the Queen. Beaming broadly, Nikita Khrushchev doffed his own beaver hat and told Prime Minister Harold Macmillan: "We welcome you to our native land. This good weather puts us in a good mood...
...Harold Macmillan's mission to Moscow became, in a sense, more useful than ever. At his first Kremlin reception last week Macmillan told the assembled Soviet bigwigs: "It is impossible to hide from ourselves the dangers of war by miscalculation or muddle. That indeed would be a calamity to us all." In his restrained British way, Macmillan was seeking to make it unmistakably plain to Khrushchev that he was playing with dynamite; if Macmillan achieves nothing else, he is determined to convince the Soviet that the West will fight before it will surrender Berlin to a Russian-dominated East...
Suffering from shock and bruised ribs, the Premier was moved from Mrs. Bailey's cottage to a private room on the third floor of London Clinic. It was there that Adnan Menderes, in pajamas and dressing gown, received British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Greek Premier Constantine Karamanlis three days after the crash. Somebody brought them one of the hospital's fountain pens. And in that most undiplomatic of settings, the three men signed the agreement that ended the four-year dispute over Cyprus and brought the island the promise of independence for the first time since...
That afternoon, the delegates approved the "agreed foundation for the final settlement of the problem of Cyprus" (Makarios had wanted to call it only "a basis"). After the three Prime Ministers signed the agreement in Menderes' hospital room, Harold Macmillan went before the House of Commons to pronounce it a "victory for reason and cooperation ... a victory...