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...noble and ancient name of Home resounded once more over a British battle. Press and politicians of all parties were up in arms because Prime Minister Macmillan appointed the 14th Earl of Home to the key post of Foreign Secretary. The earl was Macmillan's replacement for Selwyn Lloyd, faithful veteran of Suez and scores of disarmament sessions, who after five years at the foreign office moved on to the treasury as Chancellor of the Exchequer...
Heading for Trouble. At week's end, as Istanbul bristled with tanks and guns, the U.S.'s Secretary of State Christian Herter and Britain's Selwyn Lloyd arrived in Istanbul for a meeting of the NATO foreign ministers. A few hours before, a thousand students had been shouting "Freedom!" outside the buildings where the ministers were to meet. Calling a 24-hour curfew, the military governor cleared the streets. Three thousand students were locked up in military compounds...
...Western Big Three emerged with springlike smiles and cheerful words. "A very satisfactory meeting," said the U.S.'s Secretary of State Christian Archibald Herter. "Agreement was reached," said France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, echoing an earlier report by Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd that "we agreed on everything...
...Britain's House of Commons early last month. Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd eloquently restated the arguments that Western leaders have been using for a decade past to justify German rearmament. West Germany today, said Lloyd, is a sworn ally of the West, incapable of the diplomatic and military adventurism of the Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm or Adolf Hitler. Last week, the misgivings his speech was designed to mollify broke out anew when Germany's allies learned that brash, beefy West German Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss had been negotiating a sub rosa military agreement with Franco Spain...
...deliberate gesture of contempt," roared Lord Beaverbrook's Express. Just as angrily, Nasser's newspaper Al Gumhuria retorted: "Suppose we make not one but a thousand museums to commemorate the horrible attack on us-what business is that of London's?" Stiffening his upper lip, Selwyn Lloyd took the view that Nasser could not have known of the insult in advance...