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Vor 3 Tagen · It is, indeed, a constant threat running from the conditionality of Harold Macmillan’s first ill-fated EC application in 1961 right up to present-day debates over the potential shape of ‘Brexit’.
Vor 4 Tagen · In 1960, Hugh Trevor-Roper arranged for then-Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to run for the post in order to save Oxford from the “solemn, pompous, dreary, respectable Times-reading world which hates elections (indeed, hates life)”. Today, Macmillan would be barred from the higher office: the broadsheet-reading election haters finally won.
Vor einem Tag · His third visit was to Birch Grove, the home of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Getty Images Richard Nixon. From 1969 to 1970, Richard Nixon made four presidential visits to the UK. He informally ...
Vor 3 Tagen · He was promoted to become Chief Whip by Anthony Eden in 1955, and in 1959 was appointed to the Cabinet by Harold Macmillan as Minister of Labour. He later held the role of Lord Privy Seal and in 1963, was made President of the Board of Trade by Alec Douglas-Home.
Vor 3 Tagen · Harold Macmillan once said that what he feared most was ‘events’. Jack Lynch was one of those politicians who was ambushed by ‘events’. Before 1969, he seemed to have a talent for avoiding the arrogance and mud that normally congeal on those who climb the greasy pole, and projecting himself as gentle, decent, moderate, honest ...
Vor 3 Tagen · In 1955 Kim Philby held a press conference after being cleared of spying charges by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan. "I have never been a communist," he declared then. Getty Images
Vor 4 Tagen · When Harold Macmillan was appointed his successor in preference to R. A. Butler, Lady Eden wrote to Butler (whom two years earlier she had described in her diary as "curiously unnatural") that she thought politics "a beastly profession ... and how greatly I admire your dignity and good humour".
