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...Prime Minister feel," asked one Labor M.P. in chilling irony, "that when, like the Russians, we have had our tests, we shall, again like the Russians, be in a position to assume the moral leadership of the world and propose that they be the last tests?" Prime Minister Macmillan was not to be jostled. "I am bound to say," he answered with a straight face, "that in discussing the matter of nuclear disarmament, we shall now be in a very much better bargaining position...
Beyond the facts released by the Air Ministry-that the bomb was dropped from a four-engined Vickers Valiant painted gleaming white-Macmillan would add only that "first indications are that the local fallout [of dangerous radioactive substances] was almost negligible...
...London sky lowered and thunder rolled in the distance as Harold Macmillan, pale and humorless, rose in the House of Commons last week to put an 'official stamp on the greatest British diplomatic reverse since Munich. "Her Majesty's Government," announced the Prime Minister, "can no longer advise British shipowners to refrain from using the Suez Canal." Payment of canal dues, he went on, would be made in sterling-though Egypt's pre-Suez balance of $300 million, which was blocked by the Eden government, would remain frozen. Curtly, Macmillan said: "A much longer view will decide...
...belabored by increasingly shrill protests against its bomb tests. Twenty-three women dressed in mourning "for the thousands of people already affected by H-bomb explosions and for the thousands that will be in the future," called at 10 Downing Street to hand a protest to Prime Minister Macmillan, then trudged off to the House of Commons to buttonhole members. In the House of Lords, Laborite peers cited the estimate of Nobel Prize Chemist Linus Pauling of California's Institute of Technology that 1 ,000 people would die of leukemia as a result of the fallout of the Christmas...
...minor fame as the most elegantly attired M.P. in the House of Commons. As Patrick Buchan-Hepburn, he served as Conservative Chief Whip from 1948 to 1955, was Minister of Works in Sir Anthony Eden's Cabinet. He dropped out, however, when Sir Anthony stepped down and Harold Macmillan took over. His appointment as Governor General did not meet with universal approval. The London Times pointed out that the position of first Governor General calls for a "man with some knowledge of conditions in the West Indies." Said the Times: "Whatever his other capabilities, Lord Hailes does not possess...