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Item I. Overnight the West worked out a common strategy. Molotov had accepted the onus of keeping Germany divided: the West would therefore see to it that the onus stuck. Promptly at 4 p.m., the conference came to order and Harold Macmillan took the floor. His voice was icy with anger...
...appear than Dulles, who was getting into his Cadillac, brusquely told the chauffeur to "get going." When U.S. photographers asked for the usual formal portrait of all the foreign ministers, the Secretary turned it down. He had a narrow escape at the British reception, but managed to get Harold Macmillan between him and Molotov before the shutters clicked. In the end, Dulles was caught at a lunch with the Swiss President. Molotov marched up, and the Secretary was caught off guard...
Inside the House last week, Foreign Minister Harold Macmillan answered none of these questions, instead turned his defense into an exposition of Britain's principles of fair play and legality. No other course was possible, he argued, without violating one or the other. Before he was through, the slovenly security practices and clubby indulgence of the Foreign Office had become shining testaments to British high-mindedness and a standing reproach to "McCarthyism...
...Foreign Service regards this case as a personal wound," said Macmillan. "Action against employees . . . arising from suspicion and not from proof may begin with good motives, and it may avert . . . disasters, but. judging from what has happened in some other countries, such a practice soon degenerates into satisfaction of personal vendettas or a general system of tyranny, all in the name of public safety...
Since 1952, Macmillan admitted, the Foreign Office has instituted "positive vetting"-before then, a man was investigated only if he had already come to the "unfavorable notice" of the security officials. Result: four Foreign Service officers dismissed, "about half a dozen" others moved to less sensitive work...