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Moving Missiles. Most noteworthy of the budget increases is in Britain, where new Defense Minister Harold Watkinson, a hard-hitting businessman, last week proposed to increase defense spending by $300 million, to nearly $4.6 billion. Wat-kinson's program had good news for NATO: Britain has abandoned "for the time being" its plans to cut back British air and ground units in West Germany...
Drummed Out. In Hillsboro,Ill., after raiding Post No. 1306, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and seizing two slot machines, Sheriff Harold Whitten was cited by the veterans as an "undesirable member," ousted from the club...
...visiting Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made his way through the Union of South Africa, allowed to meet none of the blacks (who make up 67% of the population), he could sense the mood of the country from the headlines. The three-year-old "treason trial" of 30 political prisoners droned on. Police rounded up 30 Africans to try for the drunken explosion of violence that recently killed nine policemen in Cato Manor, a Negro ghetto. "Cato Manor," wrote one reader to the editor, "should make the white population of South Africa realize that they are surrounded by savages...
Next day, speaking to reporters in Cape Town, Harold Macmillan remarked: "Twenty years ago one spoke of guaranteeing rights of natives. Now it appears to be a question of guaranteeing the rights of Europeans." In London, Macmillan's Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod grappled with the problem as it affects Kenya colony. Meeting privately with European, African, Asian and Arab delegates from Kenya, he laid down two elements of British policy: 1) the system "I hope to see flourish in Kenya" is the "Westminster model" of parliamentary institutions, rather than a strong executive; 2) "as . time goes on, Africans...
...took all of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's urbane skill at talking through, past and around any subject to make his way through the capitals of British Africa. He had from the first conceived his mission as a journey to "look and learn," but people everywhere expected to hear something about their problems and prospects from the first British Prime Minister ever to visit them. The London Spectator, watching the P.M. straddle one controversial subject after another, began to call the Mr. Macwonder of yore by a new nickname, MacJanus...