Word: macmillan
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...Harold Macmillan, as I tried to show in the first of these articles, has withheld assurance to the new Tory progressives that they at last hold the party's reins. His Cabinet changes have distributed the work load of critical decisions among a capable crop of men, but he has failed to supply the Government with a strong, central policy-making organism...
...remains glued to Blackpool, while Mr. Macmillan holds deep discourse only with himself. And the result is that from neither conference emerges much sense of what is really taking place in Britain, of the changes that mean far more to the electorate than the issue-juggling on party platforms...
...been appointed to lead Britain's negotiations with the Common Market, which is a job made enormously difficult not only because the Home Secretaryship (which he keeps) is a harshly demanding post, but because the Government's attitude toward the negotiations is still hopelessly undefined. Nothing that Harold Macmillan said at Brighton made it any clearer; he believed that "this is the dawn and not the dusk," that "our purpose is by evolution to create a new Commonwealth structure which will avoid the decline and fall which till now has been the fate of every empire." He implied that Britain...
...reshuffled his cabinet, but he remains deliberately inscrutable to a party that wants to win a general election, and to a Government that must settle the unfamiliar and uncomfortable question of the Common Market. Uneasy and uncertain as it is, the new Conservative team must wait for Mr. Macmillan to make up his mind...
...years the Liberal Party has been trying to push Great Britain into the European Economic Community. The fact that the MacMillan government is now leading Great Britain into the Common Market will, according to Bonham-Carter, ensure another Conservative Election as soon as England is accepted...