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...Presumably, too, Khrushchev's new-found friends in the Western Hemisphere, Cuba's Castro and Dominican Dictator Trujillo, would also make in-person appearances at the U.N. And Nikita blandly allowed that he thought "it would be good" if President Eisenhower and Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan also put in an appearance...
Englishmen, who recall that nine of "their" Prime Ministers since the mid-18th century have been Scots, find this Scottish sense of grievance hard to understand. Last week, noting that Prime Minister Macmillan, Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod, Foreign Secretary Lord Home, the chairman of the London Stock Exchange and a clutch of Britain's biggest tycoons are all Scotsmen, London's Tatler declared: "There are those who maintain that the Act of Union has turned out to be more of a Scottish takeover bid." But the Scots have an answer to that one, too. "Once a Scot goes...
...Macmillan's recent tough note to Khrushchev did much to allay Adenauer's pre-summit fears that British eagerness to negotiate with the Soviets had made Britain "soft" on Berlin and West Germany. Adenauer was also mindful of the growing split in Europe between the Common Market Six (to which Germany belongs) and Britain's Outer Seven. Such a division, muses Adenauer, could only serve Moscow's interests at a time when he thinks the U.S. election is creating a "vacuum" in Western leadership...
When Harold Macmillan recently moved out, workmen began an extensive renovation of London's No. 10 Downing Street, official residence of Britain's Prime Ministers since 1735. A functionary last week cited a glaring instance of the antiquated state of things: "The Prime Minister had to run the water for his bath longer than the rest of us. That doesn't seem right, does...
Psychiatrists & Priests. Although he sponsored the motion to control exorcism, Prime Minister Macmillan's barrister brother Arthur, 70, hastened to explain that he still believes the rites are necessary. "Exorcism," he declared, "is part of our Lord's commission to his church.'' Not all of Arthur Macmillan's fellow laymen agreed. "The whole subject of evil spirits wandering about this world is un-Christian and almost getting near to witchcraft," said a retired physician named Dr. Edward Cordeaux. Others felt that "possession" was a matter for psychiatrists. The Rev. Henry Cooper, chaplain to the Guild...