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...parliamentary behavior and a preference for orderly persuasion. The contrast made Khrushchev all the more conspicuous. President Eisenhower, back in New York for a series of meetings with foreign delegates, stayed away from the U.N. itself but had a quiet talk with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, whose eventoned eloquence in the General Assembly was the week's best performance. The neutralist leaders, led by India's Jawaharlal Nehru, flitted quietly back and forth engaging in an endless but calm series of talks with each other and with leaders of the great powers. Even New York...
...Cool, Boy. Khrushchev's temper seemed to worsen as the week wore on; he had the air of a man looking for a target. The target appeared in the shape of Britain's urbane Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. who flew into New York last week determined, against the advice of his own Foreign Office, to dispense calm and conciliation.* (Just before his departure from London, Macmillan confided to a fellow Tory that his message for Khrushchev was epitomized in a song from West Side Story: "Get cool. boy. Got a rocket in your pocket/ Take it slow...
...rearranged his original plans, announced that he would extend his projected stay in New York so that he could meet personally with African, Latin American leaders and Tito, and after that with the new arrivals, Egypt's Nasser, India's Nehru and Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan...
Entitled Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference? (Macmillan Co.), the book makes it clear that--to Schlesinger--it does indeed make a difference. He's for Kennedy, of course...
...planned to speak to the Assembly (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), other heads of state began to get itchy feet. India's Jawaharlal Nehru, who had originally been minded to stay away, now seemed likely to come. So did Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba. Even Britain's Harold Macmillan was aching to come-despite advice to the contrary from his own Foreign Office. And if Macmillan showed up in New York, so would Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker. Only Charles de Gaulle, who dislikes what he refers to as the "socalled United Nations,'' seemed totally...