Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Resolutely, Britain's Harold Macmillan began to turn his countrymen's gaze away from the last humiliating weeks. In his first broadcast as Prime Minister last week, Macmillan passed rapidly over the Suez war ("I believe history will justify what we did"), and briskly informed those who saw the imminent end of the American alliance: "We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites...
...Prime Minister's chief object was clearly to put the "great" back into Great Britain. "Britain," he reminded Little Englanders, "is not alone. Think of the Commonwealth and all that this means ... As for courage and character, I know the British people have this in full measure. All we need is confidence in ourselves and our country. So do not let us have any more defeated talk of second-class powers and dreadful things to come. Britain has been great, is great and will stay great...
...regrets abroad-push ahead at home." To offset the retention of Selwyn Lloyd as Foreign Minister-"Mr. Lloyd returns to the Foreign Office down a long, cold arch of raised eyebrows," observed The Economist-Macmillan had solace for Suez critics. Rab Butler, who lost out to Macmillan as Prime Minister but stayed on as Lord Privy Seal, he identified as "my chief partner in this new enterprise." Two other appointments got widespread attention. One was Macmillan's reaching outside Parliament to make harddriving, self-made Birmingham Industrialist Sir Percy Mills, 67, Minister of Power (Mills was simultaneously made...
...Poland from the map of European states." He insisted that Poland had to be Communist now: "The fate of Poland, its independence and security . . . are bound up with the camp of socialism." In fear of non-Communist strength, he demanded that some candidates, notably Socialist Edward Osubka Morawski, onetime Prime Minister (1945-47), withdraw. But by far the most important of Gomulka's moves was his alliance with Roman Catholic Cardinal Wyszynski. Apparently convinced that many church freedoms won last October would be lost if Gomulka was rebuffed, the Roman Catholic Episcopate told Catholics that they had a duty...
...aftermath of the "glorious" invasion, Israel found itself ingloriously alone. It could boast of but one steadfast friend these days: France. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion warned of "difficult political struggles" ahead, not so much with "our enemies" as with "peoples who do not hate Israel." Other Israelis noted glumly that some $30 million in U.S. grants-in-aid and a $75 million U.S. Export-Import Bank loan, both approved long before Israel's invasion of Egypt, had not been released since...