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Bitter Man. Macmillan made no pretense that he was happy about his new job. "The exact opposite is the truth." he told his constituents rather bitterly. "I have only agreed at the personal request of the Prime Minister." Even in his brief term as Foreign Secretary, Eden had found him too independent-minded ("Macmillan has never taken kindly to his master's voice," observed the News Chronicle). Specifically, outspoken Harold Macmillan was much less optimistic than Eden about the value of negotiation with the Russians, was angrily ready to cancel or postpone next spring's scheduled visit...
...sturdiest Tory supporters could manage only faint praise, and more often blurted doubts. The Conservative Daily Telegraph could see no evidence of "either wisdom or necessity." Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express deplored the removal of Butler from the Treasury at a critical time and his replacement by Macmillan-"an untried quantity as economic arbiter." Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail concluded gloomily: "We can only hope that the new team imparts to the government a drive and decision now lacking...
...House of Commons last week, British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan stated publicly for the first time that he was prepared to promise Cypriots the right to self-determination. This assurance was once thought to be all that Archbishop Makarios III, the enosis leader, was waiting for. Instead, the 42-year-old archbishop dismissed Macmillan's pledge as unsatisfactory because Macmillan had not said when...
HENRY ADAMS (425 pp.)?Elizabeth Stevenson?Macmillan...
...DYING FALL, by Henry Wade (241 pp.; Macmillan; $2.75). After the wealthy widow marries the fortune-hunting gambler, does she fall or is she pushed from the second-floor landing to her death? One of those expert British suspense jobs, the story moves suavely on two levels; a seemingly slow-paced tale set in hunting country, it crackles with undercurrents of blackmail, violent passion and murder. Topnotch in its class, it has the season's best double-whammy ending...