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...join the Common Market or not? The agonizing question followed Prime Minister Harold Macmillan everywhere, even up to Cambridge, where at his side to receive an honorary degree was the original Mr. Europe himself, Jean Monnet (see cut), first head of Europe's Coal and Steel Community, forerunner of the Common Market...
...dancing a stately minuet, Macmillan seemed to advance toward Europe one minute, then twirl and step backward the next. Was he being too cautious? "Forever Amber," sniffed the Liberal Party's peppery Lady Violet Bonham Carter, echoing the growing criticism of Mac's leadership in general. The British public now seemed squarely in favor of making common cause with the Europeans, was beginning to grumble as the government held back. Even the usually loyal London Times had stern words for the P.M.: "The government must set the pace . . . it must cease to shilly-shally . . . The pound is weak...
...Widespread overseas travel for top U.S. officials is a recently acquired custom. In 1957, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles met with Britain's Harold Macmillan in Bermuda while Vice President Nixon was in Africa. President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes went to Potsdam in 1945 at a time when there was no Vice President...
...time. Ormsby-Gore became a Conservative Party Member of Parliament, father of five and brother-in-law to Maurice Macmillan, son of the Prime Minister. When Jack and Bobby Kennedy visited England in 1951. they looked him up. Ormsby-Gore returned the visit in 1955 when he came to the U.S. on a lecture tour, and again last March, when he dropped by the White House for a call and a chat. Bobby Kennedy afterward took him on a personally conducted tour of Bull Run. At places and times unknown, he was caught up in the Kennedy clan...
...President Kennedy intended, at the beginning of his term, to stay in Washington as much as possible." said the New York Times a little sternly. "He embarks on a crucial journey to confer with the leaders of our two principal allies. President de Gaulle and Prime Minister Macmillan. and to confront our principal adversary. Premier Khrushchev. There is a compulsion on prominent persons, as on almost all the rest of us. to arise and go. Geneva, Saigon, Paris, London, Buenos Aires, Havana, in time the fogs of Venus and the mountains of the moon. These can be reached...