Allied leaders of the Sicilian campaign in North Africa ; ( front row, left to right ) General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder | Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope | Andrew Cunningham, ( top row, left to right ) Harold Macmillan, Major General Walter Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers ; 1943

General Eisenhower meets in North Africa with ( foreground, left to right ): Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, General Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, Admiral Sir Andrew B. Cunningham, and ( top row ): Mr. Harold Macmillan, Major General W. Bedell Smith, and unidentified British officers.

The Skybolt crisis with Kennedy came on top of Eisenhower ’ s wrecking of Macmillan ’ s policy of détente with the Soviet Union at the May 1960 Paris summit, and the prime minister ’ s resulting disenchantment with the special relationship contributed to his decision to seek an alternative in British membership of the European Economic Community ( EEC ).

South Africa left the multiracial Commonwealth in 1961 and Macmillan acquiesced to the dissolution of the Central African Federation by the end of 1963.

He left the company in the late 1960s, not long after he sold the company to publishing firm Crowell, Collier & Macmillan.

After unsuccessfully contesting the Isle of Wight in the 1983 General Election ( 34, 904 votes ), she was elected to Parliament with 21, 545 votes in a by-election in 1984 ( filling the seat left vacant by the death of Maurice Macmillan, son of former prime minister Harold Macmillan ), as the Member for South West Surrey, received her first ministerial position in 1988 as a Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Department of the Environment and was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Health in 1989.

While here an acquaintance, Duncan Cameron, left him a Macmillan book by Michael Foster Physiology Primer.

He returned to the University of British Columbia in 1927, but left to work at Macmillan publishers, before joining the Department of External Affairs at the same time as Lester B. Pearson.

Eisenhower, Khrushchev and Britain's Prime Minister Macmillan left France three days later.

Before the speech, US delegations met with Canadian Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and French President Charles de Gaulle to brief them on the US intelligence and their proposed response.

Controversy surrounds Harold Macmillan, who met with Eisenhower on September 25, 1956, then relayed to Prime Minister Anthony Eden the false impression that Eisenhower promised to support an invasion.

Politicians with Scottish connections continued to play a prominent part in UK political life, with Prime Ministers including the Conservatives Harold Macmillan ( whose father was Scottish ) from 1955 – 57 and Alec Douglas-Home from 1963-64.

In October 1955 Philby was officially cleared by Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan, who told the House of Commons, " I have no reason to conclude that Mr. Philby has at any time betrayed the interests of his country, or to identify him with the so-called ' Third Man ', if indeed there was one.

Mitchell submitted the manuscript to Macmillan Publishers in 1935 along with her manuscript for Gone with the Wind.

Kurnaz's book, " Five Years of My Life ," was published in English by Palgrave Macmillan in March 2008, with Patti's introduction.

) with preface by Howard Caygill, Palgrave Macmillan.

It was not until 1999 that a retail version for Linux was distributed by Macmillan Digital Publishing USA in a bundle with the two add-ons as Quake: The Offering for Linux.

The American Bourgeoisie: Distinction and Identity in the Nineteenth Century ( Palgrave Macmillan ; 2011 ) 284 pages ; Scholarly studies on the habits, manners, networks, institutions, and public roles of the American middle class with a focus on cities in the North.

* The Picture of Dorian Gray, Macmillan Readers 2005 ( with CD pack ), ISBN 978-1-4050-7658-6

Colin Macmillan Turnbull ( November 23, 1924 – July 28, 1994 ) was a British-American anthropologist who came to public attention with the popular books The Forest People ( on the Mbuti Pygmies of Zaire ) and The Mountain People ( on the Ik people of Uganda ), and one of the first anthropologists to work in the field of ethnomusicology.

Keynes's relationship and later close friendship with Macmillan was to be fortuitous ; through Dan, Macmillan & Co first published his Economic Consequences of the Peace.

In Powell's view this was " one of the most horrible things that I remember in politics ... seeing the way in which Harold Macmillan, with all the skill of the old actor-manager, succeeded in false-footing Rab.

After Macmillan's death in 1986 Powell said " Macmillan was a Whig, not a Tory ... he had no use for the Conservative loyalties and affections ; they interfered too much with the Whig's true vocation of detecting trends in events and riding them skilfully so as to preserve the privileges, property and interests of his class ".

In Ludditt v Ginger Coote Airways the Privy Council ( Lord Macmillan, Lord Wright, Lord Porter and Lord Simonds ) held the liability of a public or common carrier of passengers is only to carry with due care.

First owned and published by Alexander Macmillan, Nature was similar to its predecessors in its attempt to “ provide cultivated readers with an accessible forum for reading about advances in scientific knowledge .” Janet Browne has proposed that “ far more than any other science journal of the period, Nature was conceived, born, and raised to serve polemic purpose .” Many of the early editions of Nature consisted of articles written by members of a group that called itself the X Club, a group of scientists known for having liberal, progressive, and somewhat controversial scientific beliefs relative to the time period.

Under the managed transition of the British Empire to the Commonwealth of Nations, members of the British government, such as Harold Macmillan, liked to think of Britain's relationship with America as similar to that of a progenitor Greece to America's Rome.

Humiliation of authority was something only previously delved into in The Goon Show and, arguably, Hancock's Half Hour, with such parliamentarians as Sir Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan coming under special scrutiny — although the BBC were predisposed to frowning upon it.

The show broke new ground with Peter Cook's impression of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ; on one occasion, this was performed with Macmillan in the audience, and Cook added an ad lib ridiculing Macmillan for turning up to watch.

As minister resident with a roving commission, Macmillan also the minister advising General Keightley of V Corps, the senior Allied commander in Austria responsible for Operation Keelhaul, which included the forced repatriation of up to 70, 000 prisoners of war to the Soviet Union and Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslavia in 1945.

" Macmillan knew President Eisenhower well, but misjudged his strong opposition to a military solution to the issue.

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.

First published by Macmillan in 1909, then reissued in 1918, it had an effect on the use of military camouflage during World War I.

On 7 June, crowds lined the procession to St Paul's Cathedral, where the royal family attended a Service of Thanksgiving alongside many world leaders, including United States President Jimmy Carter, and Prime Minister James Callaghan as well as all of the living former Prime Ministers ( Harold Macmillan, The Lord Home of the Hirsel, Sir Harold Wilson and Edward Heath ).

The Cabinet was also relatively elderly, and with younger political leaders on the scene, like American President John F. Kennedy, at a time of dramatic social changes, Macmillan resolved to bring some younger men into important posts.

According to Margaret Thatcher, in her 1995 memoirs The Path to Power, when Harold Wilson's Labour government proposed devolution for Scotland in 1976, " Julian Amery and Maurice Macmillan proved effective leaders of the anti-devolution Tory camp.

Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 ( ISBN 1403966966 )

Wilson's 1964 election campaign was aided by the Profumo Affair, a 1963 ministerial sex scandal that had mortally wounded the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan and was to taint his successor Sir Alec Douglas-Home, even though Home had not been involved in the scandal.

He later became First Lord of the Admiralty under Eden in 1956, and under Macmillan served as chairman of the party and campaign organiser for the 1959 general election.

Macmillan had been elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1960, in a campaign masterminded by Hugh Trevor-Roper, and continued in this distinguished office for life, frequently presiding over college events, making speeches and tirelessly raising funds.

In 1960, Trevor-Roper waged a successful campaign against the candidacy of Sir Oliver Franks who was backed by the heads of houses marshalled by Maurice Bowra, for the Chancellorship of the University of Oxford, and had his old friend and publisher the Prime Minister Harold Macmillan elected instead.

Gaitskell was undermined during it by public doubts concerning the credibility of proposals to raise pensions and by a highly effective Conservative campaign run by Harold Macmillan under the slogan " Life is better with the Conservatives, don't let Labour ruin it ", which capitalised on the economic prosperity of Britain.