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...there were also some pleasant things coming before the President on his return to Washington. Although the U.S. remained discreetly silent about its preferences in the British elections, the President could hardly have been less than delighted at the sweeping victory of his old friend Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS). And perhaps the most satisfying event of the week was a visit from another friend of the U.S., Mexico's President López Mateos (see HEMISPHERE). Last year, after returning from his tempestuous visit to Latin America, Vice President Nixon recommended that the U.S. distinguish more clearly among...
...West, Harold Macmillan's smashing victory in Britain's general election (see cover) cleared the way for serious summit planning. Until the British election results were in, Washington had seen no point to making any summit decisions; a Labor victory would have confronted the rest of the Western alliance with a British government that needed time to learn the ropes and that might well have proposed summit schemes even flashier than Macmillan's. Now, assured of a familiar quantity in London, Western foreign offices could settle down to working out a unified position for the great confrontation...
Although, as some of Prime Minister Macmillan's detractors have observed, a fine, un-English summer and the news of an impending addition to the royal family have conspired to help the Conservatives, there remain sound reasons for Macmillan's success. The first is prosperity. With full employment, a stable pound, lowered taxes, increased social services and the healthiest export-import situation in this century, most of England is enjoying unprecedented prosperity. Another helpful issue was foreign affairs. Despite the electoral liability, especially in Scotland, of recent abuses of power in Kenya and Nyasaland, Macmillan's leadership in trying...
...perhaps the greatest Tory asset was Harold Macmillan himself and the general post war image of his party which he has helped to create in the public mind. This is the image of a united, progressive, responsible party which can maintain Britain's role abroad and bring prosperity without state control at home. By retaining much nationalization and by extending most of the welfare state the Conservatives have stolen many of Labor's robes. By denationalizing less suitable industries and by reducing taxes and state controls, they have retained their traditional right-wing support...
With his strong parliamentary advantage, Macmillan will be able to develop the policies which have brought England unprecedented prosperity domestically and a new leadership in the cold war abroad. If the Tories can avoid the temptations which such a strong majority offers, and not overlook such domestic considerations as localized unemployment and low pensions, they could bring five years of progressive domestic government. Similarly, if they are sufficiently flexible to reconsider the problems of British Africa and of the challenge of a united continental Europe, Macmillan's government could give England a renewed position in the world...