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Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced that the rocket that will carry the first one aloft to join the U.S. and Soviet satellites has not yet been chosen...
...There will be plenty of pitfalls on our pilgrimage, plenty of Sloughs of Despond and some Mr. Fainthearts," said Britain's Harold Macmillan in a speech last week in Scotland, but he was determined to press on to the summit. There were also many skeptics who doubted that any meeting with Khrushchev, Gromyko & Co. would ever lead to the House Beautiful, the Delectable Mountain and the Enchanted Ground...
Since U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles took ill and Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan stepped forward toward the leadership of the free world, the British press has been bursting with local pride. And in the process of building Macmillan up, even such ordinarily responsible papers as the Daily Telegraph and the weekly Observer have joined the raucous "popular" press in pot-shooting at an old friend. The target: U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, depicted in the British press as a sick, doddering old man who cannot possibly match wits with Russia's Nikita Khrushchev...
Beginning in February, Daily Mirror Columnist Richard Crossman, a Labor M.P., urged Prime Minister Macmillan to step into the Western vacuum of leadership. Said Grossman: "Poor Mr. Eisenhower is far too old and ailing even to try negotiations with the Kremlin." Asked the Sunday Express: "Will Ike now turn to Macmillan?" Answer: yes. Reason: "Too long has Ike let himself be known as a leader only in title, who in fact, needs someone else to lead him." Said the Daily Telegraph: "President Eisenhower is, alas, no longer robust, and the West can provide no substitute for an active and authoritative...
What the British press missed in its effort to push Macmillan's leadership at Ike's expense: in recent months, President Eisenhower has been looking better, working harder and more effectively than at any time since his 1955 heart attack. And that fact was plain to anyone with open eyes, ears and mind...