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...Macmillan cherished any idea that Kennedy would relent on Skybolt. that hope was foredoomed. Kennedy had been convinced by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara that Skybolt was not worth the money or effort. The U.S. team at Nassau therefore tried to downplay Skybolt's significance to the conference...
...recent Cuba crisis without even going through the motions of consulting Macmillan in advance; this brought home to Britons the painful fact that the U.S. no longer treats Britain in keeping with that "special relationship" brought to such heights by Winston Churchill. The sparks of anger over Skybolt therefore fell upon tinder of shredded pride and splintered pretensions. In the House of Commons, a Tory member thundered that "the British people are tired of being pushed around." U.S.-British relations, rumbled the Paris financial daily, Information, "are today in a state of complete crisis." Cried the Daily Herald, summing...
...talks, said U.S. spokesmen, would cover a wide range of topics-NATO, the Common Market, Russia, the Chinese invasion of India, and especially the Congo. This ploy grated on the British. Cried an indignant British newsman: "They couldn't care less about Skybolt! All they want to talk about is the Congo!" But what they did, in fact, was talk about Skybolt...
...Nations? For all the uproar over Skybolt, the man in the pub was more worried about job security than the tenuous protection that nuclear weapons might buy. The Briton who had never had it so good in 1959 is bitterly aware today that the island is again in danger of being splintered into "two nations": the prosperous south and the chronically blighted north, where shipbuilding, mining and other ailing 19th century industries are concentrated. Britain's admission to the Common Market may in the long run ease its economic woes. But Macmillan's critics blame Britain...
...result, Macmillan has deepened France's ancient mistrust of perfidious Albion, while the Kennedy Administration's consultations with Whitehall have become ever more perfunctory on such life-or-death issues as Berlin and Cuba. The Administration's abrupt announcement that it planned to scuttle Skybolt left Britons shocked and disillusioned by what seemed to be a brutal rejection of their nation's claim to equal partnership with the U.S. The U.S., rued the Tory Spectator, kicked Britain "down the nuclear league to end up tying with, perhaps, Italy...