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...head of the external finance division of his ministry, but in 1943 he fled Vichy France and eventually joined De Gaulle in Algeria, where he became, in effect, the finance minister of the Free French. After serving on the Allied Consultative Council for Italy with Britian's Harold Macmillan and the U.S.'s Robert Murphy, Couve at war's end was made Ambassador to Rome. He subsequently held the same post in Egypt, NATO and the U.S., where Jacqueline Couve de Murville was admired for her elegance, and the family dachshund, Xenophon, became something of a local...
...bitter Spectator article, Macleod charged that Sir Alec Douglas-Home was chosen to succeed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan only because Macmillan could not bear the thought of his then-deputy, R. A. Butler, taking the reins. And Butler, argued Macleod, was "incomparably the best qualified of the contenders." When the ailing Macmillan decided to resign, he soon saw that none of his own favorites in the Cabinet had a decisive lead over Butler. Since "Macmillan was determined that Butler should not succeed him," the Prime Minister arranged an elaborate set of party soundings weighted to show that Home was everybody...
...Prime Minister, suggested that the technique owed more to Machiavelli than to Darwin. It also showed fissures in a party which traditionally has gained much of its public strength by presenting a sound, "nonfissiparous" image. Though Macleod's caustic chronicle came in reply to a fulsomely pro-Macmillan book by Journalist Randolph Churchill, and thus allowed Macleod to appear only to be setting the record straight, many Britons sensed the beginnings of a new leadership battle. If the Conservatives lose to the Labor Party in the next election, one wing of the Tories might well claim that Sir Alec...
...AMERICAN IRISH by William V. Shannon. 458 pages. Macmillan...
JAMES FORRESTAL by Arnold A. Rogow. 397 pages. Macmillan...