Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact was that the question of whether or not there would be a summit conference had become almost academic; at their Camp David talks (TIME, March 30), President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan had set into motion a march to the summit that could be diverted only by complete Soviet obduracy. As of last week, the basic problem was no longer one of getting to the summit. Rather, it was one of reconciling viewpoints so as to make absolutely certain that the West presents a united front once the summit is reached...
...apparently insignificant differences in wording reflected some major differences in attitudes. Of all the NATO powers, none is so eager to negotiate with Moscow as Great Britain. And as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan made his stately progress from Paris to Bonn to Washington, Britain's popular press had clamorously accorded him one diplomatic triumph after another (MAC DOES IT AGAIN), as if one intransigent ally after another had been converted to Macmillan's concept of what kind of deal the West might make with Russia over Berlin...
Only 48 Years. The naming of the commission mollified the House of Commons, but the sedate House of Lords was treated to a speech that nearly unsettled everything again. Up popped 75-year-old Lord Malvern, who as Sir Godfrey Huggins was the first Prime Minister of the Central African Federation when Nyasaland and the two Rhodesias were linked together in 1953. His credentials to discuss Central Africa were that "I have only lived there 48 years," and that he knows more about the subject than "itinerant politicians" who, he said, prowl about Africa, writing for left-wing newspapers...
...this was hardly the sort of thing to endear the get-tough policies of Malvern's successor, federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, to his London critics. No African, said the Earl of Lucan, could now "have any doubt as to the kind of attitude of certain of the Europeans." But last week, in the Rhodesias themselves, just when matters seemed to be getting out of hand, calmer views began to prevail. Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead, faced with strong criticism by clergymen and lawyers, withdrew his police-state Preventive Detention Act and set free...
Slouching angularly at his front-row desk in the House of Commons, Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker deftly handled some fast-breaking problems of state. With a quick parliamentary shuffle he bottled up a CCF (socialist) demand for Canadian recognition of Red China, thus earning Washington's warm approval. He coolly denied strife-torn Newfoundland (TIME, March 23) the lavish federal aid that the province wants (leading Liberal Premier Joseph Smallwood to cry "betrayal'' and drape provincial buildings in crape). Then, as the House droned toward Easter recess, weary John Diefenbaker caught a Saskatchewan-bound jet transport...