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...Last Days of Hitler), the dons found themselves with a candidate of their own-an old Balliol man who was then traveling in Africa. Off went a telegram to ask the traveler if he would accept. After an appropriate delay, and a sounding out of chances, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, 66, said that he would...
...with those," replied the master of Pembroke, "who feel that the chancellorship should be in the hands of a person who is neither in controversial politics nor in ministerial office." Someone cattily remembered that Trevor-Roper had been appointed Regius Professor by none other than Prime Minister Macmillan...
...prepared to make any such allowances for Germany, mindful of the bonds that once linked Franco and Hitler and the Nazi airmen of the Condor Legion who helped bring Franco to power. In London, 140 Opposition M.P.s signed a resolution protesting Strauss's plan, and Prime Minister Harold Macmillan himself expressed his disapproval to visiting German parliamentarians. Said the Church Times, unofficial voice of the Church...
...only a rustle, but the African "wind of change," of which Britain's Harold Macmillan warned South Africans at Cape Town three weeks ago, seems to be penetrating at last into the bristling laager of the long-embattled Boers...
Next day, speaking to reporters in Cape Town, Harold Macmillan remarked: "Twenty years ago one spoke of guaranteeing rights of natives. Now it appears to be a question of guaranteeing the rights of Europeans." In London, Macmillan's Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod grappled with the problem as it affects Kenya colony. Meeting privately with European, African, Asian and Arab delegates from Kenya, he laid down two elements of British policy: 1) the system "I hope to see flourish in Kenya" is the "Westminster model" of parliamentary institutions, rather than a strong executive; 2) "as . time goes on, Africans...