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...Nassau meetings, Harold Macmillan convinced Kennedy that he simply could not afford to go home emptyhanded. But what to give him? Neither Kennedy nor McNamara had any real plan, but they swiftly hammered one out. Under it, the U.S. offered to sell Polaris missiles to Britain (program's eventual cost: about $1 billion), which Britain would place under a new NATO nuclear command but could withdraw for its own use under certain unlikely circumstances...
Change of Tone. De Gaulle's most derisive comments were aimed at Harold Macmillan and his countrymen, who "always manage to seem so respectable." Describing the Prime Minister's talks with him at Rambouillet last December, he related: "Mr. Macmillan came to tell me we were right in making our force de frappe. 'We have our own, too,' he told me. 'We should try to associate them in a European framework independent of America.' On this, he left me for the Bahamas." There, according to De Gaulle, Macmillan betrayed him by agreeing instead...
...London, irate British officials were offended at the idea that Macmillan could dictate Fleet Street's line, even if he wanted to. Perhaps, they suggested acidly, he was confusing Britain's free press with France's, where De Gaulle's side pronouncements and little witticisms are fed to the Paris press by the palace guard. A great many talkative Deputies had heard De Gaulle's comments at his palace reception, and the state-owned news agency had sent them out on the wire. Nonetheless, when the reverberations began, the palace grandly issued a warning that...
Seven Reasons. In London, British officials produced their own minutes of the Rambouillet talks, which contained no hint that Macmillan had ever proposed a deterrent "independent of America." The Prime Minister, they said, had indeed agreed that De Gaulle should push ahead with his force de frappe, but had pointedly expressed his hopes that it would eventually be assigned to NATO. Snapped one official: "The French have now given seven different reasons why De Gaulle turned down British membership. The only thing they haven't claimed yet is that it was because Scotland beat France 11-6 at rugby...
...fact that he, like Gaitskell, is a middle-class intellectual. By contrast with earthy George Brown, a plain-spoken lorry driver's son, many Laborites believe that Harold Wilson will have more appeal for middle-class voters, who have become increasingly disenchanted with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. An effective president of the Board of Trade for 3½ years in the last Labor government, Wilson, at 31, was the youngest Cabinet minister appointed in 165 years...