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...without hesitation and without excuse that this is a turning point in history," Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the House of Commons. "Never has the-threat of Soviet Communism been so great, or the need for countries to organize-themselves against...
...President Eisenhower announced that he will definitely attend the December meeting in Paris of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Thus he hopes to dramatize the decision made in his recent Washington conference with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to weld NATO into a new unity, not just of arms and armies, but of all Western moral and material resources. One reservation in Washington's planning: the fear that too much emphasis on a Washington-London axis might distract the sessions from their urgent, NATO-wide purpose...
...Parliament reassembled last week for a two-day debate of Britain's economic situation. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservatives were grim. Behind them was a series of defeats in by-elections; ahead of them, demands from 5,000,000 British workers, led by the railwaymen, for a new round of wage boosts. But Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft doggedly stood the Tories' ground...
...Glory of Freedom. It was into this atmosphere that NATO Secretary-General Paul-Henri Spaak stepped one afternoon with a blunt suggestion: As a next step, why shouldn't Ike and Macmillan both attend the NATO conference in Paris next December? Both probably will...
With this announcement the week was off with a new pace. As the top-level meetings with Britain's Macmillan began, the decision was made in another White House conference to review the severe money restrictions which the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve had clamped on the economy. And at long last, the President was prevailed upon to break the news blackout that he himself had imposed on the state and progress of American missilery. With that done, the new urgency was written in the skies in the rocket's red glare. It was a week that...