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Last week Chancellor Konrad Adenauer arrived in London to return Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's visit to West Germany. On the visit's eve, the two countries settled their longstanding and awkward dispute over German financing of the British army on the Rhine (the British argue that until wealthy West Germany gets its own NATO army, it should help pay the costs of others who protect it). To settle the issue, the British retreated farther than the Germans. They promised to maintain about 50,000 troops on the Rhine till 1961, and instead of the $132 million...
...relaxed and cordial atmosphere created by these concessions, Prime Minister Macmillan and his aides made a pitch for German help against France. Britain has refused to join the six-nation, tariff-free European Common Market, but does not want to be shut out of a probable market of 165 million people. Britain would like to be an affiliate (along with ten other European nations) in a looser free-trade area, but as a price for letting the British in, France demands tariff preference throughout the British Commonwealth. Adenauer agreed to help...
...through the pretense of deference while Bulganin sat down to talk with Eisenhower and the other heads of government. Now Khrushchev could dispense with stooges and talk man to man-and nimble-witted Nikita Khrushchev would like nothing better than such a talk with Ike Eisenhower and Harold Macmillan...
...Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had no intention of being stampeded into a general election, was clearly counting on time to allow his policy of austerity to pay off. Said Macmillan calmly: "The great thing is to get the timing right-to have the downs between elections and the ups at the elections...
Already plagued by poverty, corruption, and its endless feud with India over Kashmir, the nation seemed overwhelmed by an irritable sense of frustration over its whole relationship with the West. For the Pakistanis it was bad enough that Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge had toured India and returned to their countries saying kind words about India's problems. But when the U.S. announced last month that it would lend India a whopping $225 million for its second five-year development program, Pakistan's Prime Minister Malik...