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Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has long regarded Prime Minister Harold Macmillan as a man who may not have West Germany's true interests at heart. But last week Host Adenauer greeted a visiting Macmillan with a smiling "My dear friend," soon was toasting the Queen over venison, sherbet and fine wines...
Three weeks ago, in a polite but damning note, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan wrote to Nikita Khrushchev, "I simply do not understand what your purpose is." It was not the kind of remark to provoke a humble confession of contrition from Khrushchev, and it didn't. Last week came his reply: a letter that blamed the West for the summit collapse, the Berlin stalemate, the RB-47 incident, the Congo crisis, the Cuban situation and a few other disturbances that crossed Nikita's mind...
...Lonely Visitor. Khrushchev's grandstanding offer, if meant to be taken seriously, casually undercut his dictum-reiterated only last week in his letter to Macmillan-that he would never again sit down at a conference table with Dwight Eisenhower. At such a spectacular get-together of chiefs of state, Russia might find it easier than in a more professional Disarmament Commission session to avoid explaining why the self-styled champions of peace had stalked out of the ten-nation Geneva disarmament talks last June. And if the Disarmament Commission is prevented from meeting, it is prevented from urging...
...feeling that Ike was a "consolidator," while Kennedy or Nixon would be "innovators." Under either Kennedy or Nixon, one ingredient of the Western alliance would soon be missing: the so-I-told-Winston and remember-back-in-Africa camaraderie that has linked Ike with De Gaulle and Macmillan. But almost everybody seemed ready and eager to trade old palships for new vigor. Declared Britain's Manchester Guardian hopefully: "Whatever happens, both the Los Angeles and Chicago conventions must give America's friends the feeling that they are on the move...
CAPTAIN CAT (222 pp.)-Robert Holles-Macmillan...