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...times, British statesmen, like British mountaineers, seem driven to climb the summit for no better reason than because it's there. This thought struck Germany's Chancellor Adenauer last week as Prime Minister Macmillan, fresh from leading the U.N. Assembly battle against a rampageous Nikita Khrushchev, briskly informed Britain's Tories: "We must try to get back to the mood of last spring. Negotiations on Berlin and Germany must be resumed...
...Harold Macmillan's airy pronouncement shocked Adenauer and strained their new-found friendship. Caught up in defense-policy differences with his European partner De Gaulle and cut off from Washington by U.S. campaign-time preoccupations, der Alte had taken to Macmillan during their Bonn meeting last August and vastly admired Macmillan's leonine stand against Communism at the U.N. But in the private correspondence that had begun to flow copiously between the two men, there was no hint in Macmillan's last letter that he was about to go hallooing off again for the delectable mountains...
...Berlin there was gloom over the drift of events. Last week Mayor Brandt, who has always in the past opposed big-power conferences on Berlin because the West can only give something away, endorsed Macmillan's new summit call on the ground that a confrontation is needed before his city is nibbled to death. Now that Macmillan and Khrushchev have practically named the date, Berliners look for some sort of crisis soon after the inauguration of the next U.S. President...
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan undoubtedly wants South Africa to remain inside the Commonwealth--Tory supporters in England have a great stake in the South African gold industry, and their investment should, at all costs, be protected...
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan set the ball rolling. After politely inspecting mines, factories, and "model" Black townships, he made his celebrated "winds of change" speech to an astounded White Parliament in Cape Town. He made it clear that Great Britain could no longer remain silent about apartheid, and condemned it vigorously...