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...five bureaus. After ferreting out and assessing the issues at the approach to the summit, they moved on to Paris to watch every maneuver and countermaneuver. White House Correspondent Charles Mohr followed President Eisenhower in from Washington; London Bureau Chief Robert Manning was on hand when Prime Minister Harold Macmillan arrived; Moscow Bureau Chief Edmund Stevens came to concentrate on Khrushchev, Bonn Bureau Chief John Mecklin to watch the German side of the story. Paris Bureau Chief Frank White not only followed the French position but also coordinated the whole operation. From their well prepared positions, they were...
...preconference talks with France's Charles de Gaulle and Britain's Harold Macmillan, Khrushchev's geniality vanished. Obviously sensitive to the U2's revelation of the vulnerability of Russia's defenses, he toughly asserted that Russia was five years ahead of the U.S. in missile and space research, had the power to destroy the U.S. or any other enemy. "He came for no small talk," glumly conceded a Macmillan aide. And West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who, though excluded from the summit itself, had nervously flown to Paris to urge his allies to stand firm...
...Impenitent. Britain's Harold Macmillan moved skillfully to avoid formal public condemnation of South Africa. Before the conference sessions began, he invited his Commonwealth colleagues to a weekend at Chequers, country home of Britain's Prime Ministers. In a series of tête-a-tête he won agreement to avoid open discussion of South Africa's problems at the conference's plenary meetings; in return, South African External Affairs Minister Eric Louw, substituting for recuperating Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, agreed to discuss the matter with other Commonwealth leaders informally...
...within two days Macmillan's carefully wrought compromise shattered on the intransigent arrogance of Eric Louw. Calling a press conference (for white reporters only), Louw aggressively announced, "I have come to London neither as an accused nor as a penitent nor as a suppliant." and added that his government saw "no reason for any basic change" in its racial policies. That afternoon, when Louw took the same line at his promised informal meeting with the Prime Ministers, Malaya's normally genial Tengku Abdul Rahman walked out in a rage, called his own press conference to announce: "I shall...
...longer a whiz at Latin, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 66, heard a few words in that language at a solemn Oxford University ceremony at which he was awarded an honorary doctor of civil law degree, 'installed as Oxford's new chancellor. Old Oxonian Mauricius Haraldus Macmillan expressed his gratitude for the honor in hesitant Latin, seemed relieved to return to his native tongue, in which he allowed: "My Latin pronunciation is almost as obsolete as the language itself...