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Last week the White House released part of the transcript of a "background only" Kennedy press session held at Palm Beach on New Year's Eve. Although Prime Minister Harold Macmillan remained calm about it, at least one passage had Britons and other Allies fuming. Said Kennedy of the U.S. and its relations with allied nations: "I think too often in the past we have defined our leadership as an attempt to be rather well regarded in all these countries. What we have to do is to be ready to accept a good deal more expression of newspaper...
...celebrate his sixth full year in office-the longest term for a Tory since 1902*-Prime Minister Harold Macmillan went before the cameras for a television interview last week. It was a masterful performance. Relaxed and confident, Macmillan talked with easy confidence of the promise and problems of Britain today...
...camera, things were not going so well as Harold Macmillan made it seem. Britain's hopes of membership in the Common Market hung precariously in the balance. After the decisions at Nassau, a question mark rose over the future of its military power. The latest Gallup poll showed Labor leading the Tories 45% to 36%. Many of Macmillan's own Conservative party backbenchers were critical of the government for its inability to stop the growing unemployment in Britain's north...
Reason for Confidence. Seeking a solution to the problem of jobs, Macmillan last week gave Lord Hailsham a new ministerial task of studying the northeast depressed areas, and told Birmingham businessmen that "with a little bit of luck" the economic slump might be reversed this year. As another weapon against political decline, Macmillan is clearly counting on admission to the Common Market despite the overwhelming obstacles ahead. On TV he said: "I believe that as soon as the Common Market is settled, and as soon as it is clear that there will not be another Socialist government, you will find...
Seeking Support. In preparation for the Brussels meeting, Ted Heath went to Chequers, Macmillan's ministerial estate, spent hours urging his views on West Germany's visiting Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, a considerable sympathizer. Then Heath crossed to the Continent to line up additional support for Britain's position. He talked with Belgium's Deputy Foreign Minister Henri Fayat, who wants Britain in the Common Market, and with France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who faithfully echoed De Gaulle's reluctance to lower the bars for Britain. Macmillan himself will...