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Vanished Vision. Prime Minister Macmillan assured Parliament that full inquiry would be made into the "security weaknesses" revealed by the trial. But Britain, wincing under a succession of clamorous spy cases beginning with the sale of atomic secrets by Klaus Fuchs in 1947 drew little, satisfaction from this promise. Horrified to discover that British intelligence had got onto the Lonsdale ring only by a series of accidents, the London Daily Express wondered "in the months and years before, how much vital information reached the Russians through the flagrant folly and incompetence of naval intelligence?" Mourned the Daily Mail: "The vision...
Pale and weary, Macmillan reported to Parliament his "deep regret" at the split. But in Britain and abroad, South Africa's exit was the occasion for (as Nehru put it) "relief, not elation." Malaya's Prime Minister Abdul Rahman stated the view of the Afro-Asians: "No man, because of his color, should be regarded as an outcast. We of the Commonwealth have proclaimed our stand to the world." The London Times saw the Commonwealth as now on "a secure multiracial basis," and the Guardian stated bluntly: "An unhealthy limb has been removed...
...remain in the sterling bloc,, and he was eager to work out bilateral agreements to retain his country's Commonwealth trade preferences. He was also ready to continue coordinating defense policies with Britain. His offer of cooperation was cordially received by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who rose in Parliament to say he hoped that, in years to come, "it will be possible for South Africa once more to play her part in the Commonwealth." At week's end English-speaking South Africans were feeling vastly reassured, and panicky Afrikaner Nationalists recovered their courage. During the newsreel...
Speaking on the topic, "What is the for a Democratic Africa," Quaison-Sackey maintained that the concept of "Loyal Opposition" is alien to Africa. British of `Loyal Opposition' exist in Africa," he explained, the inability of opposition to get their own way in Parliament brings about frustration which to make such parties adopt extra- methods and thus become...
Great Possessions. Pale with anger, the bewigged Lord Chancellor, Viscount Kilmuir, rose to Macleod's defense, calling Salisbury's speech "the most bitter attack I have ever known on a Minister in my 26 years in Parliament." Next came Lord Hailsham, 53, Tory campaign manager in the last election, who referred scathingly to Salisbury's "great possessions which, here and in Africa, give him the right to speak about affairs." (Salisbury, the capital of Southern Rhodesia, is named after his grandfather.) Hailsham went on: "My lords, we cannot all have great possessions...