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Names Making News. Behind Eisenhower's in 1959 came other names familiar to the cold war, and the news they made was dramatic evidence of freedom's vital toughness on many fronts. Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, challenger for Man of the Year, led his Conservative Party to a crushing third straight election victory, an unprecedented feat; in booming Britain his triumph buried the socialist dogma of the 59-year-old Labor Party as an effective political force. Under Konrad Adenauer, Man of the Year in 1953, the resurgent economic strength of free Germany posed such intolerable comparisons that...
...summit meeting to discuss Berlin and other matters had become something to be fitted in with the participants' other engagements. The Western Three had put forward April 27 as a summit date, because President de Gaulle was booked to visit President Eisenhower the week before, and Prime Minister Macmillan had a long-standing date to attend a Commonwealth meeting the week after. After comparing everyone's social calendars, the second week in May looked like the best date. Nobody apparently had anything more pressing to do that week...
...with Khrushchev-yet in fact only confirmed what Chancellor Adenauer had predicted after his meeting with De Gaulle in early December. In Paris, De Gaulle and President Eisenhower had had but one private talk, 55 minutes long, and much of the time was spent in translations. De Gaulle and Macmillan had 45 minutes together one afternoon; they discussed tariffs. Macmillan had asked for a breakfast session with Ike at the U.S. embassy residence, but learning in advance that the U.S. would give him what he intended to plead for, Macmillan and Ike talked golf...
...Paris meeting was to call a twelve-nation conference in Paris in mid-January to set up an Atlantic economic committee, including the U.S. and Canada. Subject: what to do about the impending division of Western Europe into two rival economic blocs. This was the topic that alarmed Macmillan. The British talk of building a bridge to draw together their Outer Seven and the bigger Common Market Six. U.S. Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon returned from a European tour last month convinced that the U.S. would have to involve itself as a direct participant in consultation between...
...Paris the President found the trip's most serious diplomatic challenge. Around a mosaic-inlaid table he conferred with France's Charles de Gaulle, West Germany's Konrad Adenauer and Britain's Harold Macmillan in a difficult Western summit meeting. To a ruffled Premier De Gaulle he explained that the U.S. is basically in sympathy with French attempts to end the struggle in Algeria. But in private session he argued adamantly against France's pullback of support from NATO'S integrated defense (see FOREIGN NEWS), agreed to disagree until more staff work could...