Word: selwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concession to Red China. Then the U.S. embassy in Taipei was sacked by a Nationalist Chinese mob. Reasoning that U.S. annoyance at Formosa would make U.S. reaction more even-tempered, Britain seized the opportunity to announce that it was going to act alone. Two days later British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd told a cheering Commons that though Britain would continue to cooperate with CHINCOM, "in the future we shall adopt the same lists for China and the Soviet bloc...
Aware of opposition like Salisbury's in his own party, Harold Macmillan has worked to reverse Sir Anthony Eden's Suez policy without openly repudiating it. As one way of accomplishing this delicate task, Macmillan kept in office Eden's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, 52, whose disingenuous justification of Eden's Suez policy was not a high point in Britain's long diplomatic history. The press has been crying for Lloyd's resignation, and within the Tory Party itself, there is considerable malicious glee at the report that Sir Winston Churchill refers to Selwyn...
...Shoot the Monkey. Amid Labor yells of "Salisbury!" and "Mind your back!" Macmillan plodded through a lackluster rebuttal, the gist of which was that things were not so bad as Gaitskell made out. With even less success, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (whose early resignation was now freely predicted by the British press) tried to put a hopeful face on it by saying that "certain practical lessons have been learned about the consequences of the canal being out of operation." Jabbing his finger toward Macmillan, Labor's honey-voiced Aneurin Bevan demolished Lloyd with a single blow. "There...
Last week Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd announced that he was filing suit for divorce from his young (29) wife alleging adultery with one Martin Lubbock and bringing the Cabinet divorce rate to three times the national average. The story got front-page play, but no voice was raised to suggest that divorce would blight what is left of Lloyd's political career, which, observed Daily Express Columnist George Gale, "will blossom or perish according to his abilities and not according to his private life. Private disaster is at last private...
...outstretched hand as the President, arriving in Hamilton harbor aboard the missile cruiser Canberra, stepped ashore from a U.S. Navy launch. "Harold, how are you?" Ike said warmly. That evening, the Big Two's big four-President, Prime Minister, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd-gathered for a roast-beef dinner in the private dining room of Macmillan's suite. Despite white dinner jackets, it was a friendly and informal meeting. Before ranging off into the problems of 1957, Ike and Mac exchanged reminiscences of the wartime days when Diplomat Macmillan served...