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...SIEGE (211 pp.)−Arthur Campbell−Macmillan...
Thirty bowler-hatted London bankers trooped solemnly into No. n Downing Street last week, on an unprecedented summons from Chancellor of the Exchequer Macmillan. the liveliest man in the government of Anthony Eden. Urbane Harold Macmillan (who delights in his new Threepenny Opera nickname of "Mack the Knife") wanted to impress on London's top bankers the thin edge on which the British economy now rests...
...heart of Sherwood Forest, sober-sided Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of the British Exchequer, took corona in mouth and bow in hand, tried to hit a short-range bull's-eye with a suction-cupped arrow in an attempt to promote the sale of his brain child, a savings bond that pays no interest, but offers investors a chance to win ?1,000-a financial stratagem known to Britons as "having a flutter on Harold." Nobody's archery was good enough to win the prize-one ?1 bond. Southpaw Archer Macmillan, perhaps with sporting intent, missed the target...
...international oil industry. Yet no British firm was in shape to buy it, or provide the funds to expand it. In the long run, Texaco's expansion plans would mean increased U.S. dollar investment both in Britain and in underdeveloped Trinidad. Said Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan: "If we use our powers to prevent the transaction, we run the risk of denying great material benefits to the island...
...Despite Macmillan's explanations, the Cabinet decision provoked a storm of protest in Parliament. Spearhead of the attack were Tory backbenchers, chief among them Toronto-born Sir Beverley Baxter, a onetime piano salesman who rose to the eminence of editor in chief...