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...wake of Russia's retreat from Cuba, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan rose in the House of Commons to deliver his reasoned judgment on the outcome. It was, he declared, "one of the great turning points of history...
Coming only six months after a government committee had urged a severe tightening of security procedures, the Vassall affair shook the government. Prime Minister Macmillan responded by ordering a three-man panel of civil servants to report by year's end how Vassall could have spied for so long without being caught, and whether there was any negligence by those who hired...
...sluggish economy, a series of by-election setbacks, and last summer's ministerial massacre had undermined public confidence in the government and caused Macmillan's popularity to plunge to new lows in the public-opinion polls. Committed though he was to British entry into the Common Market, his leadership seemed to be faltering. There were alarmed predictions that rising antiMarket sentiment would split the party. In this atmosphere of fretful uncertainty, the Tories met for their annual party conference in the Welsh resort of Llandudno -and ringingly endorsed both the Common Market and Harold Macmillan...
Cries of "Rubbish." In the week be fore the conference. 20 million copies of Macmillan's pamphlet, stating why Britain must join Europe, were circulated to every corner of the United Kingdom. At Llandudno young party workers distributed among the delegates hundreds of five-inch lapel badges that bore only one word: "Yes."' Belatedly. anti-Marketeers copied the ploy, but their "No" buttons were overwhelmingly outnumbered. To provide the facts and figures about the Market, Britain's chief negotiator, Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, interrupted meetings with the Six in Brussels and flew to Wales. Exhibiting...
...fewer than 40 hands out of 4.500 were raised against the government's pro-Market resolution. The stage was then set for Macmillan, and he received one of the greatest ovations of his 40-year political career. In a passionately felt speech, he declared that Britain must enter the Market or "forfeit the chance of influencing events. If we delay indefinitely, it will be too late. Now is the opportunity, and we must seize it. With the development of the European idea, there has come a resurgence and a new vigor in all aspects of European life. There...