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...Khrushchev had little to lose by negotiation under such terms, he might well decide to negotiate. At week's end Foreign Minister Gromyko asked for a conference with the President, was granted time for this Monday. Kennedy, meanwhile, got in touch with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, in the West Indies en route to the U.S., and the two met on Sunday in Key West...
Disintegration Ahead. No agreement was possible. Verwoerd and Macmillan retired to another room for a spot of tea. When they returned, tall, silver-haired Dr. Verwoerd had a statement in his hand. He read it: The Union of South Africa was withdrawing from the British Commonwealth, effective May 31, when it would become the independent Republic of South Africa...
Pale and weary, Macmillan reported to Parliament his "deep regret" at the split. But in Britain and abroad, South Africa's exit was the occasion for (as Nehru put it) "relief, not elation." Malaya's Prime Minister Abdul Rahman stated the view of the Afro-Asians: "No man, because of his color, should be regarded as an outcast. We of the Commonwealth have proclaimed our stand to the world." The London Times saw the Commonwealth as now on "a secure multiracial basis," and the Guardian stated bluntly: "An unhealthy limb has been removed...
...that South Africa will remain in the sterling bloc,, and he was eager to work out bilateral agreements to retain his country's Commonwealth trade preferences. He was also ready to continue coordinating defense policies with Britain. His offer of cooperation was cordially received by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who rose in Parliament to say he hoped that, in years to come, "it will be possible for South Africa once more to play her part in the Commonwealth." At week's end English-speaking South Africans were feeling vastly reassured, and panicky Afrikaner Nationalists recovered their courage. During...
...warmly at the White House, took him in to meet the family. Finally Ghana's beaming Osagyefo (Redeemer) sat down in London with all the other British Commonwealth leaders to soberly deliberate on South Africa's fate, and had a weekend at Chequers with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. All in all, not a bad fortnight for Nkrumah, whose country may be small (6,700,000) but whose personal ambition is of the first magnitude...