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...would be Ike's first trip to Europe in two years, his first to England in seven years, and everywhere the best linen sheets were being brought out and the silver polished. In Britain the President would go on TV with Harold Macmillan and rest a night as the Queen's guest on the Scottish hills of Balmoral. In Bonn some 150,000 school children provided with paper flags would get the day off to line the streets and cheer Ike's arrival. German officials scurried around for a limousine large enough to squeeze an interpreter...
...British Prime Minister is required to go to the people every five years -sooner if he thinks the time propitious. The Tories' five-year deadline is next May, but the betting is that Harold Macmillan will call an election in October or November. Reason: he is riding high. Last week a Gallup poll showed the Tories with a 590 edge over Labor, a gain of 2% in the past month...
...European identity" in the six Common Market nations, Britain increasingly feels itself odd man out in Western Europe, and considers this not the result of British unwillingness to pay the price of European membership but the fault of Adenauer's and De Gaulle's alliance. Prime Minister Macmillan, seeing Ike alone at Chequers, was expected to spend some of his time deploring not Khrushchev's behavior but De Gaulle's, and urging increased U.S. pressure on De Gaulle to "reopen Europe's doors...
...offered condolences to Number 96453. "Betjeman, J. Our great friend, this poet has aspired to write esoteric verse. Unfortunately his work has now received general acclaim . . ." Current members in good standing include Lord Mountbatten, Evelyn Waugh. Sir Gladwyn Jebb, T. S. Eliot, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd, but not Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell (though he is an Oxford man); Press Lords Kemsley and Astor, but not Beaverbrook (no college). In its correspondence columns the Establishment Chronicle approvingly published the letter of an M.P. aspiring to membership in the Establishment...
...Queen's duties later on. In the midst of popular enthusiasm, more sobersided politicians took note of another side effect of the news. With the Queen's presence in England next fall now assured (her acquiescence is necessary to the dissolution of Parliament), Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would have an extra month before having to call a general election, which presumably will now be held in November...