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...than trade with Russia. Only Turkey, of all the 15 nations comprising CHIN-COM (the voluntary committee founded during the Korean war to coordinate a selective embargo on Red China) supported the U.S. insistence that the "China differential" should be maintained. At Bermuda two months ago Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had warned Eisenhower that if the U.S. did not agree to major easements, the British government would be forced to "go it alone...
Aware of opposition like Salisbury's in his own party, Harold Macmillan has worked to reverse Sir Anthony Eden's Suez policy without openly repudiating it. As one way of accomplishing this delicate task, Macmillan kept in office Eden's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, 52, whose disingenuous justification of Eden's Suez policy was not a high point in Britain's long diplomatic history. The press has been crying for Lloyd's resignation, and within the Tory Party itself, there is considerable malicious glee at the report that Sir Winston Churchill refers to Selwyn...
That evening, proclaiming angrily that "appeasement leads only to disaster," eight right-wing Tory M.P.s bolted the Conservative Party. Next day sibilant, bespectacled Lord Salisbury, who until he resigned from the government over Cyprus (TIME, April 8) was one of Macmillan's closest associates, bitingly called for a House of Lords debate on the Prime Minister's statement. Said Salisbury: "It goes far too near complete capitulation to Colonel Nasser than many of us would have felt bearable, or I was almost going to say, endurable...
...Shoot the Monkey. Amid Labor yells of "Salisbury!" and "Mind your back!" Macmillan plodded through a lackluster rebuttal, the gist of which was that things were not so bad as Gaitskell made out. With even less success, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (whose early resignation was now freely predicted by the British press) tried to put a hopeful face on it by saying that "certain practical lessons have been learned about the consequences of the canal being out of operation." Jabbing his finger toward Macmillan, Labor's honey-voiced Aneurin Bevan demolished Lloyd with a single blow. "There...
...Macmillan had the votes, despite his government's stammering defensiveness, and won the test of confidence -308 to 259. Aside from the eight rebel backbenchers, only six Tories, including Sir Anthony Eden's nephew John, failed to support the government. Even the blimpest of Blimps had to recognize that Macmillan had no practical alternative to allowing British ships through the canal at Nasser's price...