Word: polarisation
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It all sprang from the Anglo-U.S. crisis over cancellation of the bug-ridden Skybolt missile, and the U.S. offer to supply Britain and France with the proved Polaris (TIME, Dec. 28). The one Allied leader who unreservedly welcomed the Polaris offer was Harold Macmillan, who by thus keeping...
Back from Nassau, the Prime Minister beamed that Britain now had a weapon that "will last a generation. The terms are very good." Many other Britons were not so sure. Though the government will shoulder none of the $800 million development cost of Polaris, it has already poured $28 million...
Then what? Tory backbenchers are loudly skeptical of what they call "the small type" in the Nassau pact, which stipulates that Britain's Polaris submarine fleet, except when "supreme national interests intervene, must be committed to a truly multilateral NATO force. Does that mean that Britain will eventually have...
Unswerving Conviction. The French, who got no help from the U.S. in developing their force de frappe, were quick to crow that Britain's ties with the U.S. had brought it nothing but humiliation. By contrast, bragged French officials, the Skybolt fiasco only vindicated France's decision to...
To most Britons last week, it seemed probable that a British Prime Minister and a U.S. President might never again be able to talk over their mutual problems with frankness and friendliness. On the contrary. John Kennedy was able to persuade Harold Macmillan that the issue at stake was not...