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Macmillan and found
Macmillan served as Minister of Defence from October 1954, but found his authority restricted by Churchill's personal involvement.
In 1994, Macmillan published his Cuisine Bon Marché, which contained recipes and guidance on a wide range of food commonly found in British markets.
He preferred that the title of the volume be found at the back, saying in a correspondence with Macmillan, " it is picturesque and fantastic — but that is about the only thing I like …" He also wished that the volume would cost less, thinking that the 6 shillings was about 1 shilling too much to charge.
Spiritual Counterfeits Project editor Tal Brooke has compared the views of Proofs of a Conspiracy with those found in Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope ( Macmillan, 1966 ).

Macmillan and himself
The statute was removed after the intervention of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in the 1960s after it came to the attention of Oxford's Wykeham Professor of Logic, A. J. Ayer, himself Jewish and an Old Etonian, who " suspected a whiff of anti-semitism ".
Macmillan met privately with Eisenhower on 25 September 1956 and convinced himself that the US would not oppose the Anglo-French-Israeli invasion, despite the misgivings of the British Ambassador, Sir Roger Makins, who was also present.
Macmillan himself resigned a few months later due to ill health.
As Hugh Walpole's literary executor, and being unable to find a potential biographer who would tackle the job to his satisfaction, Hart-Davis proposed to Walpole's publishers, Macmillan, that he should write the biography himself, to which Harold Macmillan replied that he couldn't think of a better person to do it.
Macmillan, himself a former Chancellor, made a famous and much-quoted remark to the effect that the resignations were merely " little local difficulties ".
Later in that year, after the general election victory of another of his bêtes noires, Harold Macmillan, Levin gave up the Taper column, professing himself to be in despair.
He also supported Macmillan Cancer Relief in the 2000 Great North Run, himself taking part in the Great North Walk.

Macmillan and more
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.
This is what Lockyer ’ s journal did from the start .” In addition, Maddox mentions that the financial backing of the journal in its first years by the Macmillan family also allowed the journal to flourish and develop more freely than scientific journals before it.
Still other scholarly texts, such as H E Gould and J L Whietely's Macmillan edition of Cicero's In Catilinam, dismiss Catiline as a slightly deranged revolutionary, concerned more with the cancellation of his own debts, accrued in running for so many consulships, and in achieving the status he believed his by birthright due to his family name.
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:
Macmillan, with the agreement of Home and most of the cabinet, decided that this imprisonment was doing more harm than good to Britain's position in Cyprus, and ordered Makarios's release.
Macmillan Publishing, which had published We the Living, rejected the book after Rand insisted that they must provide more publicity for her new novel than they did for the first one.
He would receive the same yearly salary that he was earning at I. C. I., the controversial sum of £ 24, 000 (£ 367, 000 in today's money ), £ 10, 000 more than Sir Brian Robertson, the last chairman of the British Transport Commission, £ 14, 000 more than Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and two-and-a-half times higher than the salary of any head of a nationalised industry at the time.
Beeching would receive the same yearly salary that he was earning at I. C. I., the controversial sum of £ 24, 000 (£ 367, 000 in today's money ), £ 10, 000 more than Sir Brian Robertson, the last chairman of the British Transport Commission, £ 14, 000 more than Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and two-and-a-half times higher than the salary of any head of a nationalised industry at the time.
With the Beckett Gala Evening at the Reading Town Hall, more than £ 22, 000 was donated for the Macmillan Cancer Support.
In 1994 the conversion of the West wing from domestic offices to provide more bedrooms and two boardrooms ( Churchill and Macmillan ) was completed.
Nine months later, Maudling had proved his usefulness and Macmillan brought him into the Cabinet ( 17 September 1957 ) where he acted more as a Minister without Portfolio: he had specific responsibility for persuading the six members of the embryonic European Economic Community, who had recently signed the Treaty of Rome, to abandon their proposal for a customs union in favour of a wider free-trade area where each country would preserve their own external tariffs.
He inherited his peerage from his grandfather, Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963, on his death at the end of 1986, as his father had died more than two years previously.
Peaks in the special relationship include the bonds between Harold Macmillan ( who like Churchill had an American mother ) and John F. Kennedy, between Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and more recently between Tony Blair and both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
His two most recent books are Australian Political Facts: Second Edition ( Macmillan, 1997 ) which he wrote with Ian McAllister and Carolyn Brown Boldiston and, more recently, Constitutional Politics: The Republic Referendum and the Future ( University of Queensland Press, 2002 ), which he edited with John Warhurst of the Australian National University.
This series, the original, should not be confused with more recent Best American series published by Harper Perennial and Palgrave Macmillan.
From 5 April 2006 Macmillan Cancer Relief became known as Macmillan Cancer Support as this more accurately reflects its role in supporting people living with cancer.
Lloyd had already clashed with Macmillan over his economic strategies, and Maudling was considered to be more amenable to the economic policies Macmillan wished to implement.
U. S. President John F. Kennedy attended a meeting there with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1962 to discuss the allies ' reaction to the communist threat and more wide-ranging matters.
Additionally, David has published more than twenty scholarly articles in various journals, including the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Texas Law Review, The Nation magazine, the Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States ( Macmillan, 2008 ), and the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution ( Macmillan, 1991 ).

Macmillan and into
The media ( particularly The Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell ) used the allegation by Alastair Campbell that he had observed Major tucking his shirt into his underpants to caricature him wearing his pants outside his trousers, as a pale grey echo of both Superman and Supermac, a parody of Harold Macmillan.
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.
Hugh Gaitskell died in January 1963, aged 56, after a sudden flare of Lupus erythematosus, an autoimmune disease, just as the Labour Party had begun to unite and appeared to have a good chance of being elected to government, with the Macmillan government running into trouble.
* Balkans into Southeastern Europe by John R. Lampe, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2006.
The 2006 revised and enlarged edition of " Terrible Revenge " with Palgrave / Macmillan takes some of these considerations into account.
Macmillan brought the monetary concerns of the Exchequer into office ; the economy was his prime concern.
Macmillan, concerned that public confidence in the nuclear programme might be shaken and that technical information might be misused by opponents of defence co-operation in the US Congress, withheld all but the summary of a report into the Windscale fire prepared for the Atomic Energy Authority by Sir William Penney, director of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment.
According to Sir Patrick Neill QC, the vice-chancellor, Macmillan ' would talk late into the night with eager groups of students who were often startled by the radical views he put forward, well into his last decade.
Lucas ( RHD Ltd ) 1950 ; All in Due Time by Humphry House ( RHD Ltd ) 1955 ; George Moore: Letters to Lady Cunard 1895-1933 ( RHD Ltd ) 1957 ; The Letters of Oscar Wilde ( RHD Ltd ) 1962 ; Max Beerbohm: Letters to Reggie Turner ( RHD Ltd ) 1964 ; More Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1969 ; Last Theatres by Max Beerbohm ( RHD Ltd ) 1970 ; A Peep into the Past by Max Beerbohm ( Heinemann ) 1972 ; A Catalogue of the Caricatures of Max Beerbohm ( Macmillan ) 1972 ; The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome ( Cape ) 1976 ; Electric Delights by William Plomer ( Cape ) 1978 ; Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde ( Oxford ) 1979 ; Two Men of Letters ( Michael Joseph ) 1979 ; Siegfried Sassoon: Diaries 1920-1922 3 vols.
The manuscript led to two books: first Erinnerungen (" Recollections ") ( Propyläen / Ullstein, 1969 ), which was translated into English and published by Macmillan in 1970 as Inside the Third Reich ; then Spandauer Tagebücher (" Spandau Diaries ") ( Propyläen / Ullstein, 1975 ), which was translated into English and published by Macmillan in 1976 as Spandau: The Secret Diaries.
The recommendations were put into practice under Harold Macmillan during a successful experiment from 18 July 1961 to the end of the session ( 4 August ), and the sessions were made permanent in the following session, with the first of these on 24 October 1961.
Wigston was the subject of W. G. Hoskins's pioneering historical study, The Midland Peasant ( London: Macmillan, 1965 ), which traced the social history of this village from earliest recorded history into the 19th century.
The third edition was translated and published into English in 31 volumes between 1974 and 1983 by Macmillan Publishers.
His MA thesis in ethnomusicology, Music in The Bahamas: its Roots, Rhyme and Personality, studied the development of Bahamian music from the slave era to the 20th century, and one chapter of that thesis was expanded into the book Junkanoo: Festival of The Bahamas ( Macmillan Caribbean 1992, ISBN 0-333-55469-8 ).
The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Religion distinguishes three types of classification of Buddhism, separated into " Movements ", " Nikāyas " and " Doctrinal schools ":
Papers released by The National Archives, London, November 2007, show that Crookshank, with Harold Macmillan, led a faction within the Cabinet of Sir Winston Churchill's government, who opposed what they perceived to be an attempt to bounce the Cabinet into a premature decision to authorise a British thermonuclear bomb programme in July 1954.
In turn it merged into Macmillan in 1984.
Only two roads lead into the Mackenzie Mountains, both in the Yukon: the Nahanni Range Road leading to the townsite of Tungsten and the Canol Road leading to the Macmillan Pass.
When Lord Denning made his 1963 investigation into the security aspects of the Profumo Affair and the rumoured affair between the Minister of Defence, Duncan Sandys, and the Duchess of Argyll, he confirmed to Macmillan that a rumour that Ernest Marples was in the habit of using prostitutes appeared to be true.

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