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Finally, Mr. Butler has been appointed to lead Britain's negotiations with the Common Market, which is a job made enormously difficult not only because the Home Secretaryship (which he keeps) is a harshly demanding post, but because the Government's attitude toward the negotiations is still hopelessly undefined. Nothing that Harold Macmillan said at Brighton made it any clearer; he believed that "this is the dawn and not the dusk," that "our purpose is by evolution to create a new Commonwealth structure which will avoid the decline and fall which till now has been the fate of every empire...
...prestige-building, length-of-the-continent trip. Inevitably, the efficiency of the State Department regulars has suffered. Since January, four of the top Latin American experts in the Foreign Service have resigned or transferred to less morale-cracking posts; more than 21 qualified men turned down the Assistant Secretaryship for Inter-American Affairs before Ambassador to Chile Robert Woodward finally accepted...
...candidates for what is becoming, at least in terms of responsibility, an increasingly important job. But Career Officer Mann was physically worn out after four years of 70-hour weeks in Washington; he declined with thanks. Chester Bowles passed up the job in favor of his State Department Under-Secretaryship. Adlai Stevenson, who toured Latin America early in 1960, was a possibility, but he went to the U.N. Puerto Rico's Governor Munoz Marin was approached; he, too, turned it down because he wanted to complete his program of economic development on the island...
...shine up Roosevelt, Kennedy has discussed naming him to an eye-catching assistant secretaryship or a place on the Civil Rights Commission. "F.D.R. Jr. is a highly debatable white knight to try to send in," mutters one top Kennedy man. "But he is ambitious and willing...
Khrushchev's rubber-stamp loyalty to superiors brought him the nomination of Stalin's heirs, after Stalin's death, for the party's first secretaryship. Khrushchev's mastery of the party regional machinery enabled him to build the personal power that ousted Stalin's heirs: Georgy Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, even the Red army's authentic hero Marshal Zhukov. But Khrushchev's elemental knowledge of the people told him that the Soviet's rising technology needed some freedom from terror, and he set a new course of demote, not destroy...