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Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, committed to summit talks if diplomats can agree on an agenda, felt strong enough in terms of British public opinion to launch an attack against the Labor Party's line on nuclear tests. "What prevents war," he said, "is the balance of power. Peace has been preserved thus far not because the West has been disarmed but because the present balance is roughly equal. I would not like to be responsible for the outcome if we were to abandon the balance." Said the New York Times: "The Soviet strategy emphasizes again Moscow...
Ambassador Whitney will likely make his final decision when he returns to the U.S. for a week of personal business before the official visit of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in early June...
...power of the Mother of Parliaments grew out of its power of the purse, and many a British leader from Gladstone to Macmillan has made a name for himself when, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, he presents his annual April budget to the House. Last week's Budget Day spotlighted a new Chancellor, the Tories' fourth in four years...
...that to Britons his poor-mouth talk, when gold and sterling reserves had risen a billion dollars in six months, must seem "tiresomely cautious." But precisely because he did not bow to political pressures, the budget increased the new Chancellor's reputation. "It would be folly," said Harold Macmillan, "to be an island of inflation in a deflationary world...
...raise money for a retired nurses' fund, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan opened up his Sussex home to the public for one day, gathered more than $500 for the charity from some 2,000 who paid admissions, sipped soft drinks, gawked at the handsome gardens. In his best country-gentleman manner, the Prime Minister posed on the steps of Birch Grove House with wife Lady Dorothy and six blooming grandchildren: Anne Faber, 13, Alexander Macmillan, 14, Adam Macmillan, 10, Mark Faber, 7, Michael Faber, 12, and Joshua Macmillan...