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...House of Commons was crammed to the doors last week as Harold Macmillan faced the grimmest hour of his political career. Grey-faced and hollow-cheeked, the Prime Minister sprawled on the government's green leather front bench while Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell called for a censure motion against the government. Gaitskell demanded Macmillan's resignation and an immediate general election, argued that Macmillan's purge of Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd and 15 other Conservative ministers "was the most convincing confession of failure which could have been offered by the government." Liberal Party Leader...
Amid jeers from the opposition and tight-lipped silence from his own benches, Harold Macmillan rose listlessly to defend his policies. In a tired voice that at times was barely audible above Labor's barracking, he spoke for nearly an hour, dusted off half a dozen Macminimal economic palliatives that had first been recommended 15 years ago in the Tories' Industrial Charter. Macmillan's most important proposal was for a National Incomes Commission ("Nicky") to supplement the government's new National Economic Development Council ("Neddy"). Jointly, these bodies, whose actual authority is undefined, would...
Oddly enough, a Gallup poll reported last week that the great majority (74%) of those questioned approved of Macmillan's infusion of youth into the Cabinet. Yet an increasing number of Britons also felt that the 68-year-old Prime Minister should have added his own name to the list of ministers fired for "tiredness." The new Cabinet, cracked the Sunday Telegraph, "is, so to speak, the New Frontier-under Eisenhower." In just nine days, the number of those who professed dissatisfaction with Macmillan himself had risen from 39% to 52%. Only once before in Britain had a Gallup...
...Britain's Conservative Party was greatly strengthened by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's recent Cabinet shake-up," Roy Macridis, visiting professor of Government from Washington University, said last week...
...very probable that the Conservatives will win the next general election," Macridis declared, for the Cabinet changes should "turn the tide" of public support in favor of Macmillan's Party...