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...Fleet Street Tuesday night, the early morning headlines were already in type: MAC WILL CARRY ON. The news, leaked to parliamentary correspondents on the eve of the Conservative Party's annual conference in seaside Blackpool, was that Harold Macmillan had told his Cabinet ministers he felt compelled to stay on as Prime Minister unless they could reach virtually unanimous agreement on his successor...
When Harold Macmillan was pleading with Charles de Gaulle last year to let Britain into the Common Market, he spoke of the historical imperative to build a united Europe. "We three old men must make this work," he said. "If we don't, the new generation of politicians and leaders will not succeed, because they have not been through what we have been through." Last week two of the three old men were suddenly only that-old men. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer resigned at 87, after clinging to his office longer than had seemed possible. Macmillan himself...
Just four hours after the operation (described as successful), Foreign Secretary Lord Home read a letter to the conference dictated by Macmillan: "It is now clear that, whatever might have been my previous feelings, it will not be possible for me to carry the physical burden of leading the party at the next general election. I have so informed the Queen...
Tears welled in the eyes of Maurice Macmillan, 42, the Prime Minister's son. Acting Prime Minister Butler stared emotionlessly across the auditorium. House Leader and Party Co-Chairman Iain Macleod slumped in his chair until his chin rested on his chest. Minister for Science Lord Hailsham was poker-faced. But Macmillan's announcement stripped away all pretense of a gentlemanly team decision to name his successor...
There was even a Home boom, though the patrician Foreign Secretary is as retiring as Hailsham is assertive, and is relatively little known to the public. The most logical candidate, on ability and experience, was the man who would fill Macmillan's shoes mean while: Rab Butler...