Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOSCOW, Feb. 24--Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev caustically attacked Western foreign policies on Germany today in a Kremlin speech. British sources said visiting Prime Minister Harold Macmillan reacted wth some shock when he heard of Khrushchev's remarks...
...tribunals, fought for aliens' right to live permanently in Britain, has been the champion of an up-to-date censorship law. After Suez, when Harold Macmillan was chosen instead of him to succeed Eden at 10 Downing Street, Butler remarked: "Well, it is something to have been almost Prime Minister." In the long run, Rab Butler seems destined to be remembered for a good deal more than that...
Chief threat to such a happy ending, Ely emphasized, is Russian expansion in Asia and Africa-"for each new implantation of Communism helps it find again the purity of its younger days." Hence the prime task of the West is to keep Russia out of the underdeveloped nations by carrying out "a just and equitable distribution of Western wealth...
...Maldivian Parliament grumbled audibly about the arrival of progress. There was a flurry of demands for independence, charges that too many concessions had been made to the British, and loud outcries that the Maldivian way of life was in danger. Once again a government fell, and a new Prime Minister, Ibrahim Nasir, asked that work on Gan be halted. In reply, Britain's High Commissioner Alec Morley steamed from Ceylon to the Maldives aboard the cruiser Gambia, and that led to hysteric Maldivian outcries of "gunboat diplomacy." Because of Britain's eagerness to establish a new steppingstone airbase...
...that he is 65, suggested the form letter from the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance, would he care to exercise his right to a retirement allowance of $7 a week? Wrote back Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...