Word: macmillian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Left-wing Labor Party leaders, dismayed by Hugh Gaitskell's ineffective opposition to Macmillian's Bermuda policy, have refused to modify more than slightly their stand against hydrogen bomb tests. Strong Parliamentary support behind this resolution has both shaken Gaitskell's leadership and threatened to raise an obstacle to British research in the nuclear field. Any disarmament plans intended to reduce nuclear weapons would now encounter strong British opposition. Both deterrent value and economy appear to demand nuclear research and stockpiling for defense...
...SECOND CURTAIN, by Roy Fuller (172 pp.; Macmillian; $2.75), the work of a British attorney who has published five volumes of verse, attempts to be both a novel of character and a novel of suspense, is above average in both categories. The plot: a second-rate novelist begins a mild investigation into the disappearance of an old school chum and gradually finds himself being followed, spied on, threatened with death. The shabbier fringes of London's literary life are convincingly drawn, and the ending is a real shocker...
...SOLITARY SINGER (616 pp.)-Gay Wilson Alien-Macmillian...
SCHOOL FOR HOPE (242 pp.)-Michael McLaverty-Macmillian...