Word: selwyn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behind Barbed Wire. An Army helicopter stood ready on the grounds of the nearby Bethesda Naval Hospital to take the President, Prime Minister and British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (who dislikes air travel in general and, from his appearance, helicopter travel in particular) to Camp David, the Maryland retreat of Presidents, where Franklin Roosevelt (who called it Shangri-La) met in secrecy with Winston Churchill during World War II. (Harry Truman had no use for the place.) Some lesser lights of the British party, who followed by helicopter and car, grumbled about being tucked away in such sylvan solitude...
Khrushchev had already made plain that, when things count, his own Foreign Secretary, Andrei Gromyko, is an errand boy. Macmillan, not Selwyn Lloyd, speaks for his government; De Gaulle, not Couve de Murville, decides for France. And the U.S. would have to be represented by an ailing Secretary of State, or a new one. If Big Four talks among such proxies got nowhere, it was generally agreed, there would be a heads-of-government meeting...
...along the Iron Curtain. This was designed to take some of the steam out of Labor's election-year drive for "disengagement" in Central Europe. Without reading it, the two chiefs of government rushed through the signing of the final communiqué. When Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd remonstrated, Khrushchev replied: "Time is money. We have officials for reading the texts...
...soon as Greek and Turk reached agreement in Zurich, the Foreign Ministers of the two countries flew off to sell it in London. ("It would seem only tactful to inform the British government," purred Greece's Evangelos Averoff-Tossizza.) With equal promptness, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd summoned to London Dr. Fazil Kuchuk, leader of the Turkish Cypriot community, and swart-bearded Archbishop Makarios, whom the British exiled from Cyprus three years ago on charges of encouraging violence. This week the prelate whom the British press called a terrorist will sit down with Selwyn Lloyd...
...Godspeed." The man who managed to look most flexible of all was Britain's Harold Macmillan. To a crowded House of Commons last week, Macmillan dramatically announced that he and Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd would fly off to Moscow Feb. 21 for a ten-day state visit. In Paris Macmillan's decision aroused grumbles that this was an odd time for a British Prime Minister to decide to accept an invitation which the Soviets first extended to Sir Anthony Eden 2½ years ago. But U.S. leaders raised not a peep. Having just played host to Mikoyan, they...