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...business. Asked what he thought of his assignment, Battalion Commander Lieut. Colonel Harold Adams answered curtly: "When the President tells us to go some place, we go." The marines were in Thailand not only by presidential order but at the invitation of the government of Premier Sarit Thanarat-the first time in 600 years that the Thais have asked foreigners in to help them defend their soil. Said a Thai Cabinet minister: "Persons with old-fashioned ideas may not like having foreign troops in Thailand, but in these times a country has to depend on collective security." Piling into Thai...
...This is weakness that will not be readily forgotten or forgiven." By week's end, openly rebellious Conservative backbenchers were charging that pay inequities were directly responsible for the Tories' sweeping electoral setbacks over the past six months. Smarting from their defeats, many demanded that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan fire Party Chairman Iain Macleod-even though it was he who mapped the strategy that swept the Conservatives back into office in 1959 with the slogan: "You Never Had It So Good." For Harold Macmillan, it had seldom looked...
...weeks, Committee Chairman Harold Cooley of North Carolina had been anxiously waiting for McSween, or one of three other Southern Democrats opposed to the bill, to change his mind and join the 17 Democrats who were for passage. All four were pressured by Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, and all four were exhorted to stand firm by the bill's bitter enemy, the American Farm Bureau Federation. Four times, Cooley hopefully convened the committee for a vote. Four times, when he saw that he did not have the necessary 18 ayes, Cooley gaveled the committee into adjournment while Republicans taunted...
Despite Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's brave declaration in Toronto this month that the Common Market would have to "make it easy'' for Britain to join, European leaders showed that they are in no mood for concessions. On the contrary, Konrad Adenauer warned that Britain has "interests different from those of Europe" and may not be able to pay the price of membership. Whether der Alte was threatening to block British admission, which he denied, or whether he was not too subtly raising the ante, his attitude was shared by many other Europeans, notably Charles de Gaulle...
Somberly, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan warned the party that the trend "could lead to the return of a Socialist government by the side door." Sir Winston Churchill even weighed in with a ringing Churchillian plea for "a searching re-examination of our policies and great and sustained efforts." The Conservatives are still confident that if they can win British admission to Europe's Common Market, they can win the next general election, probably in 1963. Meanwhile, said one top Laborite, "for the first time, Hugh Gaitskell feels certain that he is going to be the next Prime Minister...