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...week by a pugnacious, 33-year-old Liberal candidate who piled up a massive, 7,855-vote majority (total voters: 43,187) over an exceptionally able Conservative opponent. Following three other by-election setbacks for the party in a week, Orpington was the worst defeat that Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservatives have suffered since they took office eleven years ago. Said Party Chairman Iain Macleod: "These are daggers thrust...
...Liberal stabs were the big surprise. Though they won outright only at Orpington, they captured most of the 41,111 votes lost to the Conservatives elsewhere. Long in decline, the Liberals will have only seven M.P.s in the 630-seat House of Commons.* Appealing to voters disenchanted by Macmillan's crackdown on credit and pay raises, the Liberals run on a platform resembling Labor's (main difference : the Liberals do not favor nationalization of industry). They are unencumbered by the Labor Party's internal feuds and by the proletarian stigma that keeps many middle-class voters from...
...does not like the government it has got, but it's still a long way from deciding what alternative to choose." Tory Strategist Macleod is confident that if the party sinks low enough in by-elections, it will bounce back in time for the general election that Macmillan is expected to call some time next year. Said he: "How should Conservatives act now? I offer you the Clan Macleod motto: 'Hold Fast...
First, President Kennedy and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan proposed that the whole thing be elevated to higher status by having the U.S. British and Soviet foreign ministers meet in Geneva at the same time, as a kind of side affair. Why stop at that? replied Nikita Khrushchev in the manner of a grand host. Let's go all the way and make it a real summit party, he suggested...
Kennedy and Macmillan rejected the invitation, but hinted they might show up later if the early stages of the party seemed promising (TIME, Feb. 23). Attacking that reply as rude and destructive, Khrushchev repeated his invitation in sharper terms, only to be turned down by Kennedy again (although Macmillan reportedly urged him to accept). Meanwhile. President de Gaulle replied to K., ignoring the 18-member summit as far too big a shindig but proposing a more exclusive four-power parley (including France) on nuclear arms. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, who fears having the Berlin question dragged into disarmament...