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...invite-unnecessarily-the duckings of the neutralist world and-more important-to strain the home-front political position of that valuable ally, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, already under considerable to-the-summit pressure from Laborites. In talks with Dulles, Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd made it clear that the Macmillan government could not afford the political penalties of rebuffing Khrushchev's ploy, and Macmillan himself drove that point home with a transatlantic telephone call to Dwight Eisenhower...
When Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd sat down with Secretary Dulles in Washington to work out a reply to Nikita Khrushchev's proposal for a quick day-after-tomorrow summit session on the U.S. intervention in Lebanon, the Canadians were already clamoring for a firm yes to Khrushchev. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer had privately passed word that he thought something positive must be done. The NATO Council in Paris favored a meeting. But it was Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, putting through a last-minute telephone call to tell Ike that British...
...Washington, President Eisenhower, Secretary of State Dulles, visiting British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd conferred on the rocket-rattling letter. At conference's end, word leaked out that they had turned thumbs down on any immediate Geneva summit meeting but might be willing to talk summit again after the close of the U.N. debate...
Joining the Golf Society of Great Britain as its 1,000th member, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd (handicap: 18), received a sturdy, useful gift: a wedge, "not for getting you into holes, but out of trouble." Posing like a duffer (head up, grip too far down on the shaft) with his new club, Lloyd mused about some off-course problems: "I am not a good golfer. But I am wondering whether this club is appropriate for a game of Summitry. I do, I know, spend quite a lot of time in the rough. I have a bad stance. I often have...
Just as Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd rose to tackle a question in the House of Commons, there were rafter-rattling cheers, and the Right Honorable Member for Woodford, Sir Winston Churchill, walked in through the great oak doors on his first visit to the House in four months. Pale and less cherubic than usual, the old parliamentarian made his way to a corner spot near the Treasury Bench, chatted with members from both sides, voted twice with the government on minor issues. Next day Churchill's chauffeur-driven Humber made a turn on Parliament Square, collided...