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...heavy construction, the actual total of unemployed (702,000) in Britain was still 250,000 higher than in the previous March, and was actually rising in the worst-hit northern areas. Another rally next day by some 5,000 teachers demanding a wage raise showed that disenchantment with Harold Macmillan's Conservative government is even more widespread. It was far too early to predict the impact of all this on the coming elections, which will probably take place next year. But Macmillan hardly welcomed the demonstrations on top of all the other recent bad news: three by-election reverses...
Furious at this "act of betrayal," Welensky stalked angrily from Butler's office and promptly canceled a luncheon engagement with Prime Minister Macmillan, a snub without precedent in British Commonwealth annals. At a news conference, he stormed that "these decisions have been taken by Her Majesty's Government under threat from men who seek power. The people of Central Africa, black and white alike, are being betrayed to these men!" Southern Rhodesia's Field took the news in stride. Now that the federation was virtually dissolved, Field wanted a British guarantee of independence for Southern Rhodesia...
...been warned by a government official that the heat was on, and in 1955 a Labor M.P. rose in the House of Commons to accuse Philby of being the tipster. Admitting that Philby had been asked to resign from the Foreign Office because of his friendship with Burgess, Harold Macmillan, then Foreign Secretary, otherwise completely cleared him of any charge of treason or of being the "socalled 'third man,' if indeed there was one." But despite the official exoneration, doubts remained, which were in no way dispelled by Kim Philby's refusal to disavow his friendship with...
Deepening unemployment and a faltering economy account more for Tory unpopularity than its recent defeat on the Common Market. Macmillan has until fall 1964 to call an election at the time most advantageous to himself. Much will depend on the skill with which Wilson exploits Tory weaknesses and demonstrates Labor's right to govern...
With his ready tongue and sharp mind, Harold Wilson will prove a formidable adversary for Prime Minister Harold Macmillan (he was swiftly dubbed "The Other Harold"). There is hardly an M.P. who has a better grasp of parliamentary procedure or a better knack of turning it to his side's advantage. He has already drawn blood with his slashing attacks on the "vain nuclear posturing" of the Macmillan government. Macmillan's relations with U.S. President John Kennedy, said Wilson, reminded him of a "seedy uncle" receiving homilies from a young and wealthy nephew. Though it may be difficult...