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...Europe, the full recognition of Kennedy's youth surprised. At 43, Kennedy could be the son of almost any of the world's major aging leaders. He can spot Khrushchev, Mao and Macmillan 23 years, De Gaulle 26 and Adenauer...
Britain mourned the passing of the close working relationship between Eisenhower and Macmillan, worried that Britain would lose some of its privileged status as the U.S.'s closest collaborator. British genealogists wistfully recalled that Kennedy's late sister Kathleen was the wife of the Marquess of Hartington, a nephew of Lady Dorothy. But the Spectator's editor, Ian Gilmour, predicted: "America under a Kennedy administration is going to be an exciting place. Europe will need monkey glands to keep up." One British official countered hopefully: "While the Prime Minister is older, we think he has a young...
Adding to his government last week, Harold Macmillan saw no reason to deviate from custom. Into office as Secretary of State for Air went Julian Amery, Macmillan's son-in-law; the eleventh Duke of Devonshire, his wife's nephew, became Parliamentary Undersecretary for Commonwealth Relations. For the honorific task of moving the reply to the Queen's speech from the throne, Macmillan chose his son Maurice from the rank of Tory backbenchers...
...challenger was Harold Wilson, chancellor in Gaitskell's "Shadow Cabinet." At 44, "Little Harold" (as he is known in political chatter to differentiate him from "Big Harold" Macmillan) is rated the brightest but most nakedly ambitious of Labor's younger generation. Though he opposes unilateral disarmament as vigorously as Gaitskell himself does (in fact, he helped write Gaitskell's pro-NATO defense plank). Little Harold saw a chance for political advancement in the unilateralist rebellion, offered himself as leader on a vague program of compromise. But when the moment came, the usually glib Wilson stumbled...
...Conservative House leader, that Gaitskell "doesn't speak for his party in defense matters." Happily, Butler agreed that the Tories would take into account whatever "Hydra-headed arrangements may emerge." Their tempers already short from the intraparty fight, leftist Labor M.P.s exploded last week when Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced that Britain had agreed to allow the U.S. to use the port of Holy Loch on Scotland's Firth of Clyde as a base for Polaris submarines. In describing the agreement, Macmillan stretched things a bit by promising that the submarines would never fire their Polaris missiles without...