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...political satire found a big, avid audience in theaters, nightclubs and newspaper columns. Even on BBC television, a longtime stronghold of genteel conformity, bright young men fresh from the universities outrageously lampoon such sacred cows as the Church of England, royalty, black African prime ministers and their own Harold Macmillan...
...since they are, something will have to be done to get Britain into the Common Market soon, if only to salvage some shred of Harold Macmillan's prestige. Macmillan has been badly damaged by the manifest failure of his two major foreign policies: the special relationship with the United States, which Kennedy killed in Nassau, and entry into the Common Market, which De Gaulle now threatens to kill in Brussels. If De Gaulle carries out his threat, Macmillan is done, and when Labour comes in after the next General Election, Britain and Europe will go their own ways...
Some Tories promptly urged Macmillan to call a snap general election while Labor is virtually leaderless. But Macmillan will almost certainly resist the pressure, select his own time between now and October 1964, the date by which a general election must be held. If, during the "crunch" of the next few weeks in Brussels, Britain is admitted to the Common Market on an approximation of its own terms, and if the straitened economy revives as a consequence, the government would be in an excellent position for a general election in the fall. Macmillan, who will be 69 next month, said...
...increase" in voting strength under the present electoral system in Britain. However, he said, the Liberals "are the only party in Britain today that is paying any attention to the implications of Europe." He chided the Labor Party for its anti-Common Market stand, and censured Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Tory government for having made Common Market membership "more difficult" by its failure to instruct and educate the British public on the issue...
...central committee, "it's not going to be caused by us." Nenni has his eye on a Cabinet post in a new government; causing a crisis at the moment would be irresponsible, for Fanfani this week goes off to visit John F. Kennedy, and in a fortnight Harold Macmillan arrives in Rome. Fellow travelers in the Socialist high command were willing, even anxious, to topple the government, but as the party continued its talks at week's end, it appeared that Nenni-and the coalition-would squeak through...