Word: macmillan
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...Compromise. Harold Macmillan, whose diplomatic manner is less polished than his predecessor's, bluntly disagreed...
...Paris last week, as the West's foreign ministers gathered to welcome Germany as the new member of NATO, that feeling had taken on a compelling political impetus. The U.S.'s John Foster Dulles was soon closeted with Britain's Harold Macmillan and France's Antoine Pinay in the Quai d'Orsay, in a meeting later joined by Germany's Konrad Adenauer...
...confirmed by his successor, that there would be a new attempt to negotiate with the Russians before the Germans actually got their guns. Germany's staunch old Konrad Adenauer faced a similar demand at home for "one more conference." Most urgent of all was Britain's Harold Macmillan, whose instructions from campaigning Prime Minister Anthony Eden were to get a parley at the summit and to get it quickly-Macmillan was to announce it on a TV broadcast in midweek...
Dulles pronounced the plan "both useful and ingenious." As one U.S. delegate put it, the Macmillan proposal incorporated the U.S. concept that the foreign ministers should "serve as John the Baptists-prepare the way for the Great Coming," and also ensured that they will do the actual negotiating on matters of substance. Thirty-six hours later, approval came from President Eisenhower in Washington...
...week's end Dulles, Pinay and Macmillan flew off to their rendezvous in Vienna with Russia's Molotov, who" quickly accepted their proposals. It was agreed that the time of the meeting should be between mid-July and late August...