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Notably Noncommittal. U.S. allies, most of whom privately think the islands should have been relinquished to Red China long ago, were notably noncommittal. Harold Macmillan, caught in a journalistic trap (see Great Britain), felt obliged to state publicly: "Our American allies have neither sought nor received promises of military support from us in the Formosa area." On the Continent, France's De Gaulle and West Germany's Adenauer both maintained a disapproving silence. In Australia Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies, usually a staunch advocate of a united Western front, declared that his government had "no specific policy...
...creeping inflation, have now forged into first place in public-opinion polls as their policies of economic restraint have started to pay off. Amid Labor consternation, Tories began to call for a "snap election" that would take advantage of the government's new popularity. But Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who refused to panic in the time of Tory adversity, was no more to be hustled in prosperity. Last week he jauntily told a Conservative rally in Bromley: "I have no intention of advising a dissolution of Parliament this winter; I hope this statement will put the Opposition...
Rolling back from a long and convivial supper one evening last week, Randolph Churchill decided to pay a call on his good friend Harold Macmillan. He wanted to show the Prime Minister the huge picture album to be presented to his father and Lady Churchill on their golden wedding anniversary next day. Though his arrival was a trifle boisterous ("Don't worry, boys," he roared at the bobbies as he dumped his heavy package inside the door of No. 10 Downing Street. "There's a bomb inside"), he left 1½ hours later with a message of congratulations...
...East." Instantly, there was a howl of outrage. Journalists complained that Churchill had violated the spirit of the hallowed rule that no British reporter may quote directly the informal statements of the Prime Minister on an important or delicate issue. Laborite politicians charged that Macmillan seemed to be committing Britain to fight for Quemoy, alongside...
NAMING-DAY IN EDEN (159 pp.)-Noah Jonathan Jacobs-Macmillan...