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...Macmillan's appointments, as in his oratory, the pattern was "No regrets abroad-push ahead at home." To offset the retention of Selwyn Lloyd as Foreign Minister-"Mr. Lloyd returns to the Foreign Office down a long, cold arch of raised eyebrows," observed The Economist-Macmillan had solace for Suez critics. Rab Butler, who lost out to Macmillan as Prime Minister but stayed on as Lord Privy Seal, he identified as "my chief partner in this new enterprise." Two other appointments got widespread attention. One was Macmillan's reaching outside Parliament to make harddriving, self-made Birmingham Industrialist...
...negotiations, blustery First Lord of the Admiralty Lord Hailsham, visiting Port Said, blurted out that no British ships could be employed without British crews. This provoked Nasser and his Foreign Minister into rejecting the idea of using any British ships. In the House of Commons, Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd addressed an implied rebuke to the First Lord of the Admiralty: "I think it would be very much better," said Lloyd, "if this were dealt with on a technical basis...
...NATO areas. West Germany's Heinrich von Brentano suggested an amendment to the treaty itself which would require each NATO nation to consult others on problems affecting the alliance. France's Christian Pineau wanted obligatory consultation on all foreign policies. Even more grandiosely, Britain's Selwyn Lloyd suggested a "grand design" of an Atlantic Pact superstate complete with parliament...
...forbidden fruit by a seductive French Eve, to a desert-island castaway brooding over a phonograph full of ancient hits, e.g., The Last Time I Saw Paris, Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered. Last week Vicky derided Tory Leader R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan and Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd as Eton-collared brats whose destructive antics are interrupted by an Ike-faced Santa Claus loaded with oil and dollar...
...first public reckoning of the economic cost of Eden's Suez policy hit Parliament like a splash of cold water, thrown by Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan, whose sober demeanor seemed to say: in aqua frigida veritas. The jeers and roars that had greeted Selwyn Lloyd gave way to somber attentiveness when Macmillan gravely declared: "The customary monthly announcement on the gold and dollar reserves is being issued to the press today ... It shows a fall of $279 million in the reserves...