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Adenauer was also anxious to reassure Britain that nothing was being done in Paris behind her back. Before he left for Paris, he invited Macmillan to come to Bonn on a state visit within ten days. Macmillan gladly accepted...
Last week the noble and ancient name of Home resounded once more over a British battle. Press and politicians of all parties were up in arms because Prime Minister Macmillan appointed the 14th Earl of Home to the key post of Foreign Secretary. The earl was Macmillan's replacement for Selwyn Lloyd, faithful veteran of Suez and scores of disarmament sessions, who after five years at the foreign office moved on to the treasury as Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...have taken it pretty much for granted that nowadays such ministers are answerable only to them. Not since before World War II, when the late Lord Halifax served briefly, had a member of the upper house held the high office of Foreign Secretary. Worse, said the Liberal News Chronicle, Macmillan's man was a peer whose career had progressed only from "the negligible to the mediocre." The Laborite Daily Mirror called it "the most reckless political appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse a consul," and the independent-conservative Spectator, far from disagreeing, called the comparison...
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan moved out of No. 10 Downing Street and will not be back for two or three years. After more than two centuries, the narrow, four-story house in which 43 British Prime Ministers have lived or worked is crumbling and in urgent need of rebuilding. Like No. 11, the residence of Chancellors of the Exchequer, and No. 12, the office of the majority party whip, the house was built about 1682 as a real estate speculation by a Harvard man named Sir George Downing; despite repeated patching and propping, its floors and walls have tilted...
While workmen carry out their $1,400,000 repair job, Macmillan will have to find other quarters. He expects to live and work at Admiralty House in Whitehall, where a special Cabinet room has been readied...