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Macmillan was succeeded as Prime Minister by the Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home in a controversial move ; it was alleged that Macmillan had pulled strings and utilised the party's grandees, nicknamed ' The Magic Circle ', who had slanted their " soundings " of opinion amongst MPs and Cabinet Ministers to ensure that Butler was not chosen as his successor.
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Africa was also set on its course to decolonization, swept by what Harold Macmillan, the then British Prime Minister, aptly termed the " wind of change ".
In April 1935, Harold Latham of Macmillan, an editor who was looking for new fiction, read what she had written and saw that it could be a best-seller.
The last time a British monarch unilaterally selected the British prime minister was in 1963, when Queen Elizabeth II appointed Alec Douglas-Home on the advice of outgoing prime minister Harold Macmillan.
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.
However, Harold Macmillan was impressed by Alexander's calm and style, conducting dinners in his mess like those at an Oxbridge high table, discussing architecture and the campaigns of Belisarius, rather than the current war.
Macmillan thought Alexander's urbane manner and willingness to discuss and compromise were a sensible way to maintain inter-Allied cooperation, but Alexander's reserve was such that some thought him empty of strategic ideas and unable to make decisions.
Polls also showed that Major was the most popular prime minister in Britain since Harold Macmillan some 30 years previously.
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.
She was a young woman who came to the Ryall's Hotel in Blantyre, where Harold Macmillan was lunching on the homeward leg of his famous ' wind of change ' tour in Cape Town.
The novelette was rejected ; Macmillan thought the story was too short for book form.
Kurnaz's book, " Five Years of My Life ," was published in English by Palgrave Macmillan in March 2008, with Patti's introduction.
During one performance, Macmillan was in the theatre and Cook departed from his script and attacked him verbally.
However, since the 1960s, hereditary peerages have generally been eschewed, and life peerages have been preferred, although in 1984 Harold Macmillan was created Earl of Stockton.
This attracted very mixed views from the public and parliament, and even a former Conservative prime minister, Harold Macmillan, was critical of the policy ; likening it to " selling the family silver ".
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.
In 1987, Jenkins was elected to succeed Harold Macmillan as Chancellor of the University of Oxford following the latter's death ; he held this position until his death.
The " Skybolt Crisis " was a major event in the eventual downfall of the Macmillan administration.
One Nation Conservatism was the party's dominant ideology in the 20th century until the rise of Thatcherism in the 1970s, and included in its ranks Conservative Prime Ministers such as Stanley Baldwin, Harold Macmillan and Edward Heath.
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.
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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.
The 1st Earl was succeeded instead by his grandson, Maurice's son, Alexander, Lord Macmillan, who became the 2nd Earl of Stockton.
Harold Macmillan was the MP for Bromley from 1945 until his retirement in 1964, when he was succeeded by John Hunt.
Macmillan had already gone by then, having resigned in October 1963 to be succeeded by Alec Douglas-Home.
Lord Bathurst was succeeded by his grandson, the eighth Earl, who held political office under Harold Macmillan as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) from 1957 to 1961 and as Joint Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department from 1961 to 1962. the titles are held by his son, the ninth earl.
His eldest son, the sixth Earl, sat on the Conservative benches in the House of Lords and served under Harold Macmillan as a Lord-in-Waiting ( government whip in the House of Lords ) from 1958 to 1959. the titles are held by his only son, the seventh Earl, who succeeded in 1966.
Lord Macmillan resigns as Minister of Information and is succeeded by Sir John Reith.
Harold Macmillan, formerly Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, was chosen over Rab Butler to succeeded as party leader and consequently as Prime Minister.
Rab Butler was also in the running for the post but Douglas-Home was finally chosen to succeeded Macmillan.
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In the UK, the Prime Ministers Disraeli, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Harold Macmillan, and present Prime Minister David Cameron are progressive conservatives.
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.
* 1962 – In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.
The show became a great success in London after being first performed at the Edinburgh Festival and included Cook impersonating the Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan.
Prime Minister Macmillan met President Eisenhower in March 1960 and agreed to purchase 144 Skybolts for the RAF.
* British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan delivered his Wind of Change speech in 1960.
* Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ( United Kingdom )
* Prime Minister Harold Macmillan ( United Kingdom )
* January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
* October 19 – Alec Douglas-Home succeeds Harold Macmillan as British Prime Minister.
* January 10 – British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech for the first time ( see February 3 ).
* February 3 – Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Harold Macmillan makes the Wind of Change speech to the South African Parliament in Cape Town ( although he had first made the speech, to little publicity, in Accra, Gold Coast – now Ghana – on January 10 ).
* July 13 – In what the press dubs " the Night of the Long Knives ", United Kingdom Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses 1 / 3 of his Cabinet.
** Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1957-1963 ( b. 1894 )
* February 10 – Harold Macmillan, British Prime Minister ( d. 1986 )
However, when Macmillan replaced Eden as Prime Minister, Powell was offered the office of Financial Secretary to the Treasury on 14 January 1957.
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.
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