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After two days of nervous debate, the Commonwealth Conference in London is still deadlocked over South Africa. The question facing the conference is, of course, whether it should re-admit the Ishmel after it becomes a republic May 31. Prime Minister Macmillan's compromise plan, which combines admitting South Africa and condemning its racial policies is a workable answer to this question, and one which the conference ought to adopt, despite the misgivings of its six Asian and African members...
When able, ambitious Iain Macleod asked Harold Macmillan for a crack at running the Colonial Office after the 1959 elections, he knew he was taking on a post that could break or make a politician. Last week African nationalists, white settlers and a sizable bloc of Tory M.P.s all had a try at breaking Macleod in a bitter fight over the political future of racially divided Northern Rhodesia. At stake, along with Macleod's neck, is survival of the entire Central African Federation, a wobbly, three-state union as big as Texas, California and New York...
...Macleod, with Macmillan's Cabinet solidly behind him, turned all of his smooth skill to winning over the dissident Tories. After a series of closed-door meetings, most of the Tory rebels were ready to let their motion...
Last week another nudger arrived in London. West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was met by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan as he arrived by special train at London's Victoria Station. They sped off to Admiralty House for the latest round of Anglo-German talks. Adenauer had come in his role of middleman between Britain and the Continent...
...British must first agree to join the Common Market itself. The British as usual counter that to draw closer to Europe means drawing away from the Commonwealth, which they do not want to do. How can Britain get in on the discussions without committing itself? Adenauer outlined to Macmillan a solution of the kind so beloved by diplomats: Why not get the British into the European conversations through the existing but moribund seven-nation Western Europe Union? It was plainly a stall. Sooner or later Britain must make the decision itself: inside Europe...