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...less than four months in office, Macmillan has wrought a transformation. From the first, he refused to act like a man with his back to the wall. He put the disaster of Suez firmly behind him, and exuded confidence-in himself and in Britain...
Mind of Its Own. Where Sir Anthony Eden was addicted to late-night phone calls checking up on busy ministers, Macmillan made a practice of telling his ministers what he wanted done and leaving them to do it. Relaxed and leisured, he spent a few minutes each day in the Commons smoking room, chatting with backbenchers and listening attentively to their views. What was at first taken to be attitudinizing came to be accepted as a natural buoyancy...
...Bermuda meeting with President Eisenhower, Macmillan got Britain back on speaking terms with the U.S., while simultaneously making clear that if Britain accepted the role of junior partner, it was a junior partner with a mind of its own. The bold new defense policy outlined by Defense Minister Duncan Sandys was realistically geared to Britain's economic capabilities and imaginatively adjusted to 20th century weapons and technology. It had the added political merit of promising to end conscription in 1960, the year the Tories must face the voters in a general election...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Peter Thorneycroft's budget was an unashamed "opportunity" budget, which created new incentives for talented men and enterprising businesses, but Labor's attempt to denounce it as unfair to the "little man" proved a dud. Along with a rise in Macmillan's reputation has come a decline in opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell...
...Dashing, Decisive." By late March, when Lord Salisbury resigned from the Cabinet in protest over the release of Archbishop Makarios, Macmillan could treat Salisbury's departure as an unfortunate but far from calamitous incident. That is what it proved...