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After the emotional welcome in Germany and the sentimental flood in Ireland, the rest of the President's European journey was mixed. He met with Harold Macmillan for a day of low-key talks at the British Prime Minister's country home near Brighton, and they reached an essentially negative agreement: the projected multilateral NATO nuclear force would be allowed to die. In Italy, the President's reception, the day after Pope Paul's coronation, was something like Grand Rapids on a rainy day. Rome's blase millions stayed away in droves. Overeager Italian security...
...Harold Macmillan valiantly tried to divert Britain's mind from sex and security. Displaying something like his old form in the House of Commons, he delivered an eloquent speech on prospects for disarmament and a summit conference that was received respect fully even by the Opposition. But Macmillan's eloquence could not diminish Tory distress over the three separate scandals that plagued his government...
...When Burgess and Maclean eloped to Russia in 1951, Philby was forced to resign from the Foreign Office amidst a flurry of rumors that he was "the third man" who had tipped them off that the police were on their trail. Later, this charge was indignantly denied by Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, who personally vouched for Philby's good character. The Foreign Office even asked the Observer to hire Philby as a correspondent because "it seemed unfair that so able a man should be finding difficulty in earning a living now that he had clearance from the Foreign...
...House, Macmillan praised Britain's security services for coming up with the new information-overlooking the fact that they had cottoned to it twelve years too late...
...begun to get a little boring. At week's end, as he flew over the Irish Sea on his way to England, even Seán Ó Cinnéide may have looked forward to a change of pace. There he began quiet talks with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who would surely welcome a chance to get his mind on something other than his own government's troubles...