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When Britain's House of Commons sat down to the business of the week, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was all set to defend his drastic new atomic-age defense policy (TIME, April 15). But the Laborites seemed scarcely interested. Instead, with the nagging insistence characteristic of the troubled British conscience, the Laborites waged an inconclusive and none too logical debate among themselves on whether or not the government should go through with the scheduled test of Britain's first hydrogen bomb...
...visions of the onrush of Armageddon impressed the Western leaders who must deal with the stern realities of power. From Oslo Premier Einar Gerhardsen, unmoved by Soviet threats against his nation, fired off a note informing the Russians that Norway's defense was her own business. In Britain Macmillan assured the Labor Opposition that the Christmas Island test would be held. "Those who carry responsibility and perhaps even those who aspire to responsibility must make decisions," he said. "We must rely on the power of the nuclear deterrent, or we must throw up the sponge...
Representatives on the Run. For the British government, which had hoped that the release of Makarios-even though he is still exiled from Cyprus-would persuade the Greek Cypriots to moderate their demands, all this was vastly disappointing. Speaking for the Macmillan government in the House of Lords, the Earl of Perth explained that the British government intended to invite "representatives of all communities, including the Greek and Turkish Cypriots," to London to discuss "the internal problems" of Cyprus. Somewhat unhappily his lordship added: "If certain potential representatives go on making the sort of statements they have been making...
...Commons lobbies in several years. Said one, noting that Thorneycroft was hanging on to most of his surplus: "If things turn out well, he can give more next year and even more the year after that. Remember, the year after that will be election year." Prime Minister Harold Macmillan agreed. "This is a plan for victory," he told Conservatives. "And the last of our three victory budgets will be better than the first...
Labor Trouble. At this point, Macmillan's fortune took a turn for the better and Gaitskell's for the worse. Opening the Bermuda debate in the House of Commons, Macmillan boldly seized on the left-wing Laborite cry for calling a halt to H-bomb tests, before Britain has a chance to try out the first one it has made. "Would the right honorable gentleman accept the logical consequences of abandoning the tests, which means abandoning the weapon?" asked Macmillan. Gaitskell retreated. Finally he replied: ''The Prime Minister is perfectly right. Our party decided to support...