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...Incredible!" The President was hurt ("A lot," said an aide), but no one was allowed to know how much. He sat, dignified and stern, with De Gaulle and Macmillan while the three waited for Khrushchev to show up (see FOREIGN NEWS). Although his own prestige was involved in the U-2 issue, there was no thought of degrading concessions once Khrushchev lit into him. Next afternoon, in his two-room suite at the U.S. embassy, the President read the wire-service reports of Khrushchev's wild press conference. "Incredible!" he said as he leafed through the bulletins, "Unbelievable...
...other Western leaders promptly came to Ike's support. Ike's statement "completely resolved" the U-2 problem, said Britain's Macmillan, arguing that "all espionage is in effect a violation of sovereignty, and espionage is an unpleasant fact of life." He didn't see how it was possible to make much distinction between one form of espionage and another. De Gaulle urged a day's recess, and strongly reminded Nikita that his avowed intention of publishing his speech was the one thing that would make continuance of the conference virtually impossible...
...that he would stay in contact with each of the delegations, decide within a few days whether to hold another session. Khrushchev unyieldingly replied that there could not be "another" session, since he did not regard this day's work as a summit meeting. When De Gaulle and Macmillan asked what his immediate plans were, Nikita was carefully noncommittal. If possible, he clearly intended to force someone else to take the blame for formally breaking up the conference. Nikita bounced out of the Elysee palace, joking with his chauffeur and declaring: "Only my face is red [in Russian...
...Macmillan. he demanded: "What about the Netting Hill troubles here?" India's Jawaharlal Nehru and Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, displaying considerable restraint, tried to reason with Louw. So did Malaya's Tengku Abdul Rahman, who had precipitated a crisis by walking out on a meeting with Louw during the first week of the conference. Even Australia's Prime Minister Robert Menzies, originally sympathetic to Louw's problems, gave up in the face of his intransigence. At a meeting of London's South Africa Club. Louw said the other Prime Ministers had greeted him with...
...Prime Minister Harold Macmillan went off to the summit. British voters gave him an unmistakable vote of confidence. In local elections for borough offices throughout England and Wales, his Conservative Party rolled up a gain of 426 seats (out of 3.519 at stake). The Liberals gained 51 seats. Big loser: Labor, whose net loss of 460 seats reflected the policy quarrels that have racked the party since its third straight defeat by the Tories in last October's general elections...