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According to Labour Shadow Chancellor Harold Wilson, Macmillan was 'first in, first out':[117] first very supportive of the invasion, then a prime mover in Britain's humiliating withdrawal in the wake of the financial crisis caused by pressure from the US government. Byl pragmatickm politikem, ped druhou svtovou vlkou kritizoval appeasement a do vysok politiky se dostal jako chrnnec Winstona Churchilla. [125] Faced with Macmillan's prediction of doom, the cabinet had no choice but to accept these terms and withdraw. The record of Macmillan's own premiership came under attack from the monetarists in the party, whose theories Thatcher supported. 'Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster', broadcast on Monday, 8 October 2007, at 2100 BST on BBC Two. [171] Macmillan believed that the American policies towards the Soviet Union were too rigid and confrontational, and favoured a policy of dtente with the aim of relaxing Cold War tensions. I am sure they will be more efficient. He supported the welfare state and the necessity of a mixed economy with some nationalised industries and strong trade unions. We must run AFHQ (Allied Forces Headquarters) as the Greek slaves ran the operations of the Emperor Claudius". [21], Volunteering as soon as war was declared, Macmillan was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 19 November 1914. [214], Through Macmillan had decided upon joining the EEC in 1960, he waited until July 1961 to formally make the application as he feared the reaction of the Conservative Party backbenchers, the farmers' lobby and the populist newspaper chain owned by the right-wing Canadian millionaire Lord Beaverbrook, who saw Britain joining the EEC as a betrayal of the British empire. '[237] Commonwealth Secretary-General Sir Shridath Ramphal affirmed: "His own leadership in providing from Britain a worthy response to African national consciousness shaped the post-war era and made the modern Commonwealth possible. [138], From the start of his premiership, Macmillan set out to portray an image of calm and style, in contrast to his excitable predecessor. Lamb argues that it is unfair to blame Macmillan for excessively quick African independence (resulting in many former colonies becoming dictatorships), or for the Beeching Plan (which was accepted by Labour in 1964, although Macmillan himself had reservations and had asked civil servants to draw up plans for extra road-building), and argues that had he remained in power Macmillan would never have allowed inflation to get as far out of hand as it did in the 1970s.[5]. Harold MacMillan: 2volume 2: 1957-1986. He reported directly to the Prime Minister instead of to the Foreign Secretary, Anthony Eden. Just two weeks after the untimely death of Gaitskell in 1963, his wife Dora wrote that she was "most deeply hurt" by claims the Conservative leader had made during a debate in parliament. [209] Sukarno was the leader of the most populous nation in Southeast Asia and though officially neutral in the Cold War, tended to take anti-Western positions, and Kennedy favoured accommodating him to bring him closer to the West; for example, supporting Indonesia's claim to Dutch New Guinea even through the Netherlands was a NATO ally. [7] He had two brothers, Daniel, eight years his senior, and Arthur, four years his senior. [28] He was still on crutches on Armistice Day, 11 November 1918. [276] Fisher described him as "complex, almost chameleon". As early as January 1956 he told Eden's press secretary William D. Clark that it would be "interesting to see how long Anthony can stay in the saddle". [18][pageneeded], Macmillan went up to Balliol College in 1912, where he joined many political societies. [219] D. R. Thorpe writes that from January 1963 "Macmillan's strategy lay in ruins", leaving him looking for a "graceful exit". [58] However the sitting MP, Guy Kindersley cancelled his retirement plans, in part because of his own association with the anti-Baldwin rebels and his suspicion of Macmillan's sympathy for Oswald Mosley's promises of radical measures to reduce unemployment. [214] A report from Sir Frank Lee of the Treasury in April 1960 predicated that the three major power blocs in the decades to come would be those headed by the United States, the Soviet Union and the EEC, and argued to avoid isolation Britain would to have decisively associate itself with one of the power blocs. It is quite true, many of Your Lordships will remember it operating in the nursery. He felt privately that he was being hounded from office by a backbench minority: Some few will be content with the success they have had in the assassination of their leader and will not care very much who the successor is. [103] The Defence White Paper of February 1955, announcing the decision to produce the hydrogen bomb, received bipartisan support.[104]. Because Singapore with its ethnic Chinese majority was the largest and wealthiest city in the region, Macmillan was afraid that a federation of Malaya and Singapore together would result in a Chinese majority state, and insisted on including Sarawak and British North Borneo into the federation of Malaysia to ensure the new state was a Malay majority state. During the Kenyan Emergency, the British authorities tried to protect the Kikuyu population from the Mau Mau guerrillas (who called themselves the Land and Freedom Army) by interning the Kikuyu in camps. [194], He was supportive throughout the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and Kennedy consulted him by telephone every day. [196] By contrast, Kennedy felt that the regime of Katanga was a Belgian puppet state and its mere existence was damaging to the prestige of the West in the Third World. Macmillan's archives are located at Oxford University's Bodleian Library.[269][270]. [111] He had enjoyed his eight months as Foreign Secretary and did not wish to move. Davenport-Hines has studied the events of those years. Richard Davenport-Hines, biographer of the Macmillans, says: 'Like many other men whose lives have got too closely entangled with their mothers', Harold was frustrated: where he loved he could not sexually desire, and where he desired he could not love.' Thorpe 2010, p. 95. His mistress figures neither in the index nor the book, though this probably sprang from discretion rather than bitterness. [143] Many cabinet ministers often complained that Macmillan took the advice of his private secretaries more seriously than he did their own. Although Macmillan played an important role in drafting the "Industrial Charter" ("Crossbencher" in the Sunday Express called it the second edition of The Middle Way) he now, as MP for a safe seat, adopted a somewhat more right-wing public persona, defending private enterprise and fiercely opposing the Labour government in the House of Commons. Macmillan was badly injured as an infantry officer during the First World War. The standard of living had risen enough that workers could participate in a consumer economy, shifting the working class concerns away from traditional Labour Party views. Macmillan was given responsibility for increasing colonial production and trade, and signalled the future policy direction when in June 1942 he declared: The governing principle of the Colonial Empire should be the principle of partnership between the various elements composing it. [211] To help reduce the expenses of the war, Macmillan appealed to the Australian Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies to send troops to defend Malaysia. Hearing evidence in the winter of 1957 and reporting in January 1958, this inquiry exonerated all involved in what some journalists perceived to be a whitewash. [252] On his advice she excluded the Treasury from this body. [258], Macmillan had often play-acted being an old man long before real old age set in. Gott, 'Independent British Deterrent', p. 247. the "soundings" and the accompanying political intrigues are discussed in detail in. [251], Macmillan was one of several people who advised Thatcher to set up a small War Cabinet to manage the Falklands War. His last words were, 'I think I will go to sleep now'. Some people have protested that those in authority over us should be open to public scrutiny. [186], Macmillan was scheduled to visit the United States in April 1961, but with the Pathet Lao winning a series of victories in the Laotian civil war, Macmillan was summoned on what he called the "Laos dash" for an emergency summit with Kennedy in Key West on 26 March 1961. However, Sarah lived an ultimately unhappy life and died at the young age of 39 in 1970. [201] In the aftermath of criticism about colonial policies in Kenya and Nyasland, Macmillan from 1959 onward started to see the African colonies as a liability, arguing at cabinet meetings that the level of force required to hang onto them would result in more domestic criticism, international opprobrium, costly wars, and would allow the Soviet Union to establish influence in the Third World by supporting self-styled "liberation" movements that would just make things worse. The revelation of the affair between John Profumo (Secretary of State for War) and an alleged call-girl, Christine Keeler, who was simultaneously sleeping with the Soviet naval attache Captain Yevgeny Ivanov made it appear that Macmillan had lost control of his government and of events in general. [60] Macmillan also published "The Next Step". Lady Dorothy Cavendish, third daughter of the ninth Duke of Devonshire, was born in 1900 and brought up in the old tradition of great houses, nannies, governesses and noblesse oblige. It may well be the end of British influence and strength forever. There was something in all these views, which he did little to discourage, and which commanded public respect into the early 1960s. Macmillan had further meetings with Aldrich and Winston Churchill after Eden left for Jamaica (23 November) while briefing journalists (disingenuously) that he planned to retire and go to the Lords. In April 1957, Macmillan reaffirmed his strong support for the British nuclear weapons programme. He loved her - and in any case, divorce was unthinkable for both family and political reasons. [77] At the Casablanca Conference Macmillan helped to secure US acceptance, if not recognition, of the Free French leader Charles de Gaulle. [18][pageneeded] Harold resigned from the company on appointment to ministerial office in 1940. Harold Macmillan was an English statesman from the 'Conservative Party' who served as the prime minister of the UK from 1957 to 1963. Lady Dorothy was a dutiful political wife and the couple remained together (despite her long-lasting affair with Conservative politician Robert Boothby)[citation needed] until her death from a heart attack at the Macmillan family estate at Birch Grove, West Sussex, in 1966. Thorpe argues that despite his 1960 "Winds of Change" speech, he was largely pushed into rapid independence for African countries by Maudling and Macleod. [183] Macmillan pressed Eisenhower to apologise to Khrushchev, which the president refused to do. Macmillan's biographer D. R. Thorpe is of the view that he was removed by his mother when she discovered that he was being "used" by older boys. He liked to say: 'I have it both ways: my grandfather was a crofter, my wife's father a Duke.'. [90], Macmillan returned to England after the European war, feeling himself 'almost a stranger at home'. With a general election due before the end of the following year, Gaitskell's death threw the future of British politics into fresh doubt. When Skybolt was unilaterally cancelled by US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Macmillan negotiated with President Kennedy the purchase of Polaris missiles under the Nassau agreement in December 1962. As a Conservative, I am naturally in favour of returning into private ownership and private management all those means of production and distribution which are now controlled by state capitalism. She met Macmillan in 1919, when he was aide-de- camp to her father, then Governor- General of Canada. Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS (10 February 1894 - 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Macmillan and Butler met Aldrich on 21 November. The Profumo affair directly contributed to Macmillan's departure from 10 Downing Street in October 1963,. [citation needed], Macmillan worked with states outside the European Communities (EC) to form the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), which from 3 May 1960 established a free-trade area. [46] The stress caused by that may have contributed to Macmillan's nervous breakdown in 1931. Many of the salacious revelations about the sex lives of "Establishment" figures during the Profumo affair damaged the image of "the Establishment" that Macmillan was seen as a part of, giving him the image by 1963 of a "failing representative of a decadent elite". Married Andrew Heath in 1953; two children. Although scientists had warned of the dangers of such an accident for some time, the government blamed the workers who had put out the fire for 'an error of judgement', rather than the political pressure for fast-tracking the megaton bomb. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. [26] Prime Minister Asquith's own son, Raymond Asquith, was a brother officer in Macmillan's regiment, and was killed that month. [36] On one occasion he had to command reliable troops in a nearby park as a unit of Guardsmen was briefly refusing to reembark for France, although the incident was resolved peacefully. [48] John Campbell suggests that Macmillan's humiliation was first a major cause of his odd and rebellious behaviour in the 1930s then, in subsequent decades, made him a harder and more ruthless politician than his rivals Eden and Butler.[49]. He saw Butler on the morning of 7 October and told him he planned to stay on to lead the Conservatives into the next General Election, then was struck down by prostate problems on the night of 78 October, on the eve of the Conservative Party conference. For the first couple of years the marriage appeared happy, but before long Dorothy's high spirits and warm but turbulent nature looked for greater fulfilment than her devoted husband could offer. [2] She received lessons in French, German, riding and golf. According to Michael Bloch, there have long been rumours that Macmillan was expelled from Eton for homosexuality. [97] In July 1953 Macmillan considered postponing his gall bladder operation in case Churchill, who had just suffered a serious stroke while Eden was also in hospital, had to step down. Harold Macmillan ( 10. nora 1894 Chelsea - 29. prosince 1986 Chelwood Gate) byl britsk politik, len Konzervativn strany a premir . [120] He was heavily involved in the secret planning of the invasion with France and Israel. [210] Macmillan felt that giving in to Sukarno's demands would be "appeasement" and clashed with Kennedy over the issue. [108] He very often wore either an Old Etonian or a Brigade of Guards tie. [32] As a result, he refused to return to Oxford to complete his degree, saying the university would never be the same;[33] in later years he joked that he had been "sent down by the Kaiser". Much later on he treated the troubled and unhappy young woman with great kindness. [189] Kennedy for his part wanted Britain to commit forces to Laos if the United States did for political reasons. His age was 92 years and 322 daysthe greatest age attained by a British Prime Minister until surpassed by Lord Callaghan on 14 February 2005. [175], Britain's balance of payments problems led Chancellor Selwyn Lloyd to impose a seven-month wage freeze in 1961[176] and, amongst other factors, this caused the government to lose popularity and a series of by-elections in March 1962, of which the most famous was Orpington on 14 March. [note 2] This led to the notorious Beeching Axe, destroying many miles of permanent way and severing towns from the railway network. [263], The House of Commons paid its tribute on 12 January 1987, with much reference made to his book The Middle Way. Macmillan had opposed Eden's trip to Jamaica and told Butler (15 December, the day after Eden's return) that younger members of the Cabinet wanted Eden out. Leading an advance platoon in the Battle of FlersCourcelette (part of the Battle of the Somme) in September 1916, he was severely wounded, and lay for over twelve hours in a shell hole, sometimes feigning death when Germans passed, and reading the classical playwright Aeschylus in the original Greek. On his first evening as Prime Minister he made a public show of taking the Chief Whip Edward Heath for oysters at the Turf Club. Entdecke Harold Macmillan und Dorothy Cavendish - Vintage-Fotografie 2940103 in groer Auswahl Vergleichen Angebote und Preise Online kaufen bei eBay Kostenlose Lieferung fr viele Artikel! [19][20] He obtained a First in Honours Moderations, informally known as Mods (consisting of Latin and Greek, the first half of the four-year Oxford Literae Humaniores course, informally known as Classics), in 1914. [38] The engagement of Captain Macmillan to the Duke's daughter Lady Dorothy was announced on 7 January 1920. In "Economic Aspects of Defence", early in 1939, he called for a Ministry of Supply. "'Suspicious Federal Chancellor' Versus 'Weak Prime Minister': Konrad Adenauer and Harold Macmillan in the British and West German Quality Press during the Berlin Crisis (1958 to 1962). This caused friction with Eden and the Foreign Office. He continued to be British Minister Resident at Allied Headquarters and British political adviser to "Jumbo" Wilson, now Supreme Commander, Mediterranean. This did not meet with Eden's approval at Cabinet on 7 January. This was compounded by a financial scandal in 1941, when he was censured for not disclosing a personal interest. 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