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[124], In later life Macmillan was open about his failure to read Eisenhower's thoughts correctly and much regretted the damage done to Anglo-American relations, but always maintained that the Anglo-French military response to the nationalisation of the Canal had been for the best. 'Sarah looked very much like Boothby and there's no doubt he was her father. In the end the crisis was resolved by giving priority for demobilisation to men who had served the longest. 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. His grandson and heir Alexander, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, said: "In the last 48 hours he was very weak but entirely reasonable and intelligent. Harold Macmillan, who was prime minister from 1957 to 1963, believed in fidelity, loved his wife, and was heartbroken when she died. Macmillan's policy overrode the hostility of white minorities and the Conservative Monday Club. [143] Macmillan had no "inner cabinet", and instead maintained one-on-one relationships with a few senior ministers such as Rab Butler who usually served as acting prime minister when Macmillan was on one of his frequent visits abroad. He learned French at home every morning from a succession of nursery maids, and exercised daily at Mr Macpherson's Gymnasium and Dancing Academy, around the corner from the family home. [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. Rising to high office as a . The campaign cost him about 200-300 out of his own pocket;[55] at that time candidates were often expected to fund their own election campaigns. [282], Dominic Sandbrook writes that Macmillan's final weeks were typical of his premiership, "devious, theatrical and self-seeking" although not without droll wit and intelligence. The child of their tempestuous liaison, Sarah Macmillan, had an unhappy life and an early death at the age of 40. Harold Macmillan ( 10. nora 1894 Chelsea - 29. prosince 1986 Chelwood Gate) byl britsk politik, len Konzervativn strany a premir . [206] The result was the Indonesian Confrontation, an undeclared war between Britain vs. Indonesia that began in 1963 and continued to 1966.[212]. They wouldn't have dreamt of ringing up a paper: they'd have been absolutely horrified.'. Obstacles made for desperation and excitement. [244] In October of that year he called for 'a Government of National Unity' including all parties, which could command the public support to resolve the economic crisis. In 1936, Harold and his brother Daniel took control of the firm, with the former focusing on the political and non-fiction side of the business. Some people have protested that those in authority over us should be open to public scrutiny. "[260][261], On receiving the news, Thatcher hailed him as "a very remarkable man and a very great patriot", and said that his dislike of "selling the family silver" had never come between them. Lady Catherine Macmillan Sarah Heath Maurice Macmillan. [99][100], Macmillan was Minister of Defence from October 1954, but found his authority restricted by Churchill's personal involvement. [131][132] He was also hinting that he would not serve under Butler. 'Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster', broadcast on Monday, 8 October 2007, at 2100 BST on BBC Two. For an ambitious young man with political leanings (he became an MP in 1924), the connection was advantageous. [106] By the 1950s he had had his teeth capped, grew his hair in a more shapely style, wore Savile Row suits and walked with the ramrod bearing of a former Guards officer, acquiring the distinguished appearance of his later career. [65], Macmillan visited Finland in February 1940, then the subject of great sympathy in Britain as it was being attacked by the USSR, then loosely allied to Nazi Germany. [236] His service in the House of Commons totalled 37 years. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim. Boothby's constituents never had to decide whether their much- loved MP was compromised by his behaviour, since it was never paraded through the tabloids. In his diary Harold Nicolson noted the feelings of the Tory backbenchers: "They feel that Winston is too old and Anthony (Eden) too weak. The love affairs and so on went on just the same as they do today - the difference was, people didn't rat on each other. He wrote a pamphlet "The Price of Peace" calling for alliance between Britain, France and the USSR, but expecting Poland to make territorial "accommodation" to Germany (i.e. It happened within living memory. Rab Butler, Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson) who, often through no fault of their own, had not seen military service in either World War. [217] The full Denning report into the Profumo Scandal was published on 26 September 1963. During that time, he was married briefly to Diana Cavendish, while the birth of Sarah. [229] Macmillan was almost ready to leave hospital within ten days of the diagnosis and could easily have carried on, in the opinion of his doctor Sir John Richardson. [63], Macmillan supported Chamberlain's first flight for talks with Hitler at Berchtesgaden, but not his subsequent flights to Bad Godesberg and Munich. [17] He won an Exhibition (scholarship) to Balliol College, Oxford. [116], In November 1956, Britain invaded Egypt in collusion with France and Israel in the Suez Crisis. Heath's bail of 100,000 rupees (HK$25,300) has been put up by a local resident. [264] Thatcher said: "In his retirement Harold Macmillan occupied a unique place in the nation's affections", while Labour leader Neil Kinnock struck a more critical note: "Death and distance cannot lend sufficient enchantment to alter the view that the period over which he presided in the 1950s, while certainly and thankfully a period of rising affluence and confidence, was also a time of opportunities missed, of changes avoided. Extraordinarily, in his autobiography, Recollections of a Rebel, published 12 years after Dorothy's death and 11 years after his marriage to a woman 33 years his junior, Boothby does not mention the affair at all. The highest moral standards should be demanded, but if people do fall by the wayside I think their privacy should be respected. [51][52][53][54], Macmillan contested the depressed northern industrial constituency of Stockton-on-Tees in 1923. The affair ended only with Dorothy's death in 1966. [108] He very often wore either an Old Etonian or a Brigade of Guards tie. He finally resigned, receiving the Queen from his hospital bed, on 18 October 1963, after nearly seven years as prime minister. Macmillan failed to heed a warning from Secretary of State John Foster Dulles that whatever the British government did should wait until after the US presidential election on 6 November, and failed to report Dulles' remarks to Eden. [11], spouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom, Maurice Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lady_Dorothy_Macmillan&oldid=1082950698. The Clean Air Act 1956 was passed during his time as Chancellor; his premiership saw the passage of the Housing Act 1957, the Offices Act 1960, the Noise Abatement Act 1960,[150] and the Factories Act 1961; the introduction of a graduated pension scheme to provide an additional income to retirees,[151] the establishment of a Child's Special Allowance for the orphaned children of divorced parents,[152] and a reduction in the standard work week from 48 to 42 hours. "'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). [35] However, at the end of 1918 Macmillan joined the Guards Reserve Battalion at Chelsea Barracks for "light duties". Browse 1,055 harold macmillan stock photos and images available or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. 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. [197] Through Khrushchev's reply to the Macmillan-Kennedy letter was mostly negative, Macmillan pressed Kennedy to take up the one positive aspect in his reply, namely that if a senior Anglo-American team would arrive in Moscow, he would welcome them to discuss how best to proceed about a nuclear test ban treaty. [citation needed], D. R. Thorpe writes that by the early 1960s Macmillan was seen as "the epitome of all that was wrong with anachronistic Britain. [276] Fisher described him as "complex, almost chameleon". Macmillan 1966, pp. [43] Dick Leonard reports that Alistair Horne refers to "inevitable rumours" and that "he left for the 'usual reasons' for boys to be expelled from public schools".[44]. 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. [86] In 1947 the US would take over Britain's role as "protector" of Greece and Turkey, to keep the Soviets out of the Mediterranean, the so-called "Truman Doctrine". Negotiations to join the EEC were complicated by Macmillan's desire to allow Britain to continue its traditional policy of importing food from the Commonwealth nations of Australia, New Zealand and Canada, which led the EEC nations, especially France, to accuse Britain of negotiating in bad faith. [77] For Macmillan, the "remarkable and romantic episodes" as President Roosevelt met Prime Minister Churchill in Casablanca convinced him that personal diplomacy was the best way to deal with Americans, which later influenced his foreign policy as prime minister. He was as trenchant a critic of his successors in his old age as he had been of his predecessors in his youth. In retirement Macmillan took up the chairmanship of his family's publishing house, Macmillan Publishers, from 1964 to 1974. Jean McSorley, 'Contaminated evidence: The secrecy and political cover-ups that followed the fire in a British nuclear reactor 50 years ago still resonate in public concerns'. His mistress figures neither in the index nor the book, though this probably sprang from discretion rather than bitterness. [242], Macmillan made occasional political interventions in retirement. Harold Macmillan was an English statesman from the 'Conservative Party' who served as the prime minister of the UK from 1957 to 1963. [203] It is considered a landmark in the process of decolonisation. Asked who could lead such a coalition, he replied: "Mr Gladstone formed his last Government when he was eighty-three. [255] He is the last Prime Minister to have been given an hereditary peerage. In old age, Macmillan was a close friend of Ava Anderson, Viscountess Waverley, ne Bodley (18961973), the widow of John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley. Thorpe 2010, p. 95. He said: 'It is impossible to be happily married when you love someone else.' US President Ronald Reagan said: "The American people share in the loss of a voice of wisdom and humanity who, with eloquence and gentle wit, brought to the problems of today the experience of a long life of public service. [177] Butler leaked to the Daily Mail on 11 July 1962 that a major reshuffle was imminent. Labour leader Harold Wilson wrote that his "role as a poseur was itself a pose". He even tried (in vain) to demand that Salisbury, not Butler, should preside over the Cabinet in Eden's absence. [199], Macmillan's first government had seen the first phase of the sub-Saharan African independence movement, which accelerated under his second government. The innocent children of ecstatic, illicit liaisons suffered in the past as much if not more than their parents. For the politicians concerned, this must have been a good thing. He supported the welfare state and the necessity of a mixed economy with some nationalised industries and strong trade unions. Macmillan met Eisenhower privately on 25 September 1956 and convinced himself that the US would not oppose the invasion,[123] despite the misgivings of the British Ambassador, Sir Roger Makins, who was also present. Harold Macmillan (1957-1963): . Boothby wrote to his friend Beaverbrook: 'Don't let your boys hunt me down.' [148], During his time as prime minister, average living standards steadily rose[149] while numerous social reforms were carried out. [210] Macmillan felt that giving in to Sukarno's demands would be "appeasement" and clashed with Kennedy over the issue. [201] Many in the British media compared the living conditions in the Kenyan camps to the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, saying that the people in the camps were emaciated and sickly. This contributed to the Windscale fire on the night of 10 October 1957, which broke out in the plutonium plant of Pile No. 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. In April 1957, Macmillan reaffirmed his strong support for the British nuclear weapons programme. In April 1953 Beaverbrook encouraged Macmillan to think that in a future leadership contest he might emerge in a dead heat between Eden and Butler, as the young Beaverbrook (Max Aitken as he had been at the time) had helped Bonar Law to do in 1911. [136] At that time the Conservative Party had no formal mechanism for selecting a new leader, and the Queen appointed Macmillan Prime Minister after taking advice from Churchill and the Marquess of Salisbury, who had asked the Cabinet individually for their opinions, all but two or three opting for Macmillan. However, it was thought better for him to be seen to defend his seat, and Lord Beaverbrook had already spoken to Churchill to arrange that Macmillan be given another seat in the event of defeat. Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS (10February 1894 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. [204] Macmillan especially wanted to keep the British base at Singapore, which he like other prime ministers saw as the linchpin of British power in Asia. [12][13], Macmillan attended Summer Fields School, Oxford (190306). occupations: Leader Instead, the resignation of the new candidate at Stockton allowed Macmillan to be re-selected there, and he returned to the House of Commons for his old seat in 1931. [135], His political standing destroyed, Eden resigned on grounds of ill health on 9 January 1957. [note 2] This led to the notorious Beeching Axe, destroying many miles of permanent way and severing towns from the railway network. He was wounded many times during the battle of the Somme. In international affairs, Macmillan worked to rebuild the Special Relationship with the United States from the wreckage of the 1956 Suez Crisis (of which he had been one of the architects), and facilitated the decolonisation of Africa. He was a force in the negotiations leading to the signing of the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty by the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union. [143], He was nicknamed "Supermac" in 1958 by the cartoonist "Vicky" (Victor Weisz), who intended to suggest that Macmillan was trying set himself up as a "Superman" figure. 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! The campaign was based on the economic improvements achieved as well as the low unemployment and improving standard of living; the slogan "Life's Better Under the Conservatives" was matched by Macmillan's own 1957 remark, "indeed let us be frank about itmost of our people have never had it so good,"[173] usually paraphrased as "You've never had it so good." John Hunt. After Munich he was looking for a "1931 in reverse", i.e. [133], Butler later recorded that during his period as acting Head of Government at Number Ten, he noticed constant comings and goings of ministers to Macmillan's study in Number 11 next doorand that those who attended all seemed to receive promotions when Macmillan became Prime Minister. [165] The Mutual Defence Agreement followed on 3 July 1958, speeding up British ballistic missile development,[166] notwithstanding unease expressed at the time about the impetus co-operation might give to atomic proliferation by arousing the jealousy of France and other allies. When he did realise this, he changed his mind and called for withdrawal on US terms, while exaggerating the financial crisis. [251], As Chancellor of Oxford University, Macmillan condemned its refusal in February 1985 to award Thatcher an honorary degree. I remember Lady Dorothy as an odd mixture of shyness and charm and great warmth of character. Then, in 1929, Dorothy met the raffish and sexually dynamic Boothby, already a promising young Tory politician. [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. For these reasons, Kennedy was adamant that if the United States intervened in Laos, then he expected the United Kingdom to likewise do so. This was largely due to employers and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) boycotting it. [110], Macmillan was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in December 1955. Losing his seat in 1929, he regained it in 1931, soon after which he spoke out against the high rate of unemployment in Stockton-on-Tees. [214] Macmillan wrote in his diary about his decision to apply to join the EEC: "Shall we be caught between a hostile (or at least less and less friendly) America and a boastful, powerful 'Empire of Charlemagne'-now under French, but later bound to come under German control?It's a grim choice". It is impossible to avoid the conclusion that she actively enjoyed scenes and melodrama.'. He had to have a plaster cast put on his face. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. He loved her - and in any case, divorce was unthinkable for both family and political reasons. Macmillan later claimed in his memoirs that he had still expected Butler, his junior by eight years, to succeed Eden, but correspondence with Lord Woolton at the time makes clear that Macmillan was very much thinking of the succession. [38] The engagement of Captain Macmillan to the Duke's daughter Lady Dorothy was announced on 7 January 1920. [251], Macmillan was one of several people who advised Thatcher to set up a small War Cabinet to manage the Falklands War. 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