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...also had the welcome mat out for old, if recently estranged, friends. A Washington caller last week: French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau, paving the way for a possible call by Premier Guy Mollet. England's Harold Macmillan (see FOREIGN NEWS) was also prepared to visit, was assured a warmer welcome than could have been possible for Anthony Eden. And at week's end came hints of a caller whose appearance would do more for the Western alliance than a regiment of bustling, brief-cased statesmen. To Britain's Queen Elizabeth went overtures for a state visit, possibly...
...went up when a small, dusty Wolseley entered the palace gates: "Here comes Butler!" Then some one recognized the bareheaded man sitting next to the driver in the front seat, and shouted: "It's Mac, the bookie!" Forty minutes later, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan, half-American grandson of a Scots tenant farmer, ex-Grenadier Guardsman and wartime friend of President Dwight Eisenhower, walked out of the palace as Her Majesty's Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury...
Eden Must Go. Few had anticipated Macmillan's choice: the Economist called it "startling." But for weeks, Tories had known in their hearts that Sir Anthony would have to go; it had only been a question of time. It was not merely that he had miscalculated grievously on a matter of vital national policy-straining the U.S. alliance as it had never been strained before, bitterly dividing his own country, coming within a hairsbreadth of shattering the Commonwealth, blocking the canal he sought to seize. A man of greater flair might have carried off as great a blunder...
...First was Lord Salisbury, 62, widely regarded as the ablest Tory of them all, but disbarred from becoming Prime Minister by the unwritten 20th century understanding that he must be a member of the House of Commons. Next came Sir Winston Churchill himself. Both are longtime friends of Macmillan but only colleagues of Butler. Both, presumably, advised her to call Macmillan. But neither could have tendered that advice if the Tory Party had not reached its mysterious concurrence in the course of the long night. And what if the Queen had preferred Butler? It would have been necessary for someone...
...morning long, Butler and Macmillan worked at their desks as usual, each waiting for the fateful phone call summoning him to Buckingham Palace. At 1:30 widower Butler went home to a lonely lunch. A few moments later the phone rang in 11 Downing Street, official residence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Macmillan rushed off to "kiss hands upon his appointment...