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...base in Bermuda on a grey, drizzly morning this week. At the base they chatted amiably for a while before the President boarded the Columbine II for the four-hour flight to Washington. "I hope I am not making you late for church," said Dwight Eisenhower. "Oh no," Harold Macmillan assured him. After a cordial parting, Ike climbed aboard and Mac raised both arms in a farewell V. The historic four-day Big Two conference that had just ended had fulfilled its essential purpose: to repair the damage that Britain's desperate armed adventure in Egypt had done...
...Spilled Milk." The urgent need for repair was evident all along to both the U.S. and Britain; as soon as Harold Macmillan succeeded broken Anthony Eden as Prime Minister, a Big Two meeting was inevitable. Ike himself suggested Bermuda as the place, feeling that it might help soothe the British hurt feelings to hold the conference in British territory...
From the start, the tone of the meeting was cordial. Macmillan was waiting at dockside with outstretched hand as the President, arriving in Hamilton harbor aboard the missile cruiser Canberra, stepped ashore from a U.S. Navy launch. "Harold, how are you?" Ike said warmly. That evening, the Big Two's big four-President, Prime Minister, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd-gathered for a roast-beef dinner in the private dining room of Macmillan's suite. Despite white dinner jackets, it was a friendly and informal meeting. Before ranging off into the problems...
That word came from Sen. Hennings (D-Mo.), one of a sizable group invited to the White House from the Capitol to hear Eisenhower report on his Bermuda conference with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Great Britain...
...Macmillan has other topics he is anxious to discuss with Ike. He would like the U.S. to join the Baghdad Pact, at least as a member of the military committee. (The U.S. will probably refuse, on the ground that to do so would alienate other Arab countries which the U.S. is trying to influence through the more amorphous Eisenhower Doctrine.) Macmillan may seek support for some modification of U.N. procedure so that the great powers will not be so much at the mercy of the Afro-Asian bloc in the General Assembly. He is prepared to discuss Britain...