Word: macmillan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan desperately needed a swift settlement. Buffeted by defeats in recent by-elections, Macmillan's Tories now faced a redoubled onslaught from the Labor Party, whose leader, Hugh Gaitskell, declared last week, "There is no overriding necessity for Britain's entry." Gaitskell charged that the U.S., which is not prepared to see the "disappearance of America as an independent nation," is acting hypocritically in urging Britain to surrender its sovereignty in a united Europe...
After Tory defeats in two by-elections and reduced margins in three more, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's political enemies once again were crying for his scalp. Emboldened by its own gains in the votes, Labor sharpened its criticism of Macmillan's government, and even critics among the Tories themselves now referred to the onetime "Macwonder" as "Mr. Macfail." This made good chatter in pubs; but by-elections are hardly representative of a whole nation's mood. In any case, the Tories would not have to call a general election until 1964. Until then, Macmillan could fall...
Though Harold Macmillan's government says it is eager to grant Kenya its independence as soon as possible, such problems as defining its frontiers and drawing up an acceptable constitution now seem certain to delay nationhood until mid-1964. Renison favored a cautious approach to Uhuru. But Whitehall plainly felt that he was too unpopular to sell it to the Africans or to hold together the uneasy coalition of Kenya's deeply antagonistic political parties, Kenyatta's KANU and Ronald Ngala's KADU. To succeed Renison, Duncan Sandys picked a man with a better chance...
Percy W. Bridgman, The Logic of Modern Physics. New York: Macmillan, 1927 (now in paperback...
Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education. New York: Macmillan, 1929 (now in paperback...