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25 de jun. de 2024 · Harold Macmillan was a British politician who was prime minister from January 1957 to October 1963. The son of an American-born mother and the grandson of a founder of the London publishing house of Macmillan & Co., he was educated at Balliol College, Oxford.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Hace 6 días · Macmillan. The last three volumes of Harold Macmillan’s six-tome autobiography—”Riding the Storm”, “Pointing the Way” and “At the End of the Day”—cover his years in Downing ...
Hace 6 días · “Churchill is now often speechless in Cabinet; alternatively, he rambles about nothing,” wrote Harold Macmillan, a future Conservative prime minister, in 1954. For most people, cognitive decline...
27 de jun. de 2024 · Profumo affair, in British history, political and intelligence scandal in the early 1960s that helped topple the Conservative Party government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Involving sex, a Russian spy, and the secretary of state for war, the scandal captured the attention of the British public.
25 de jun. de 2024 · Macmillan was the first Western leader to visit the Soviet Union after World War Two, and was a major supporter of decolonization. It is during his government that many British possessions in Africa and Asia were granted independence.
- Andrew H. Lee
- 2013
29 de jun. de 2024 · Douglas-Home had only become prime minister the year before, when his predecessor Harold Macmillan stepped down following a huge reversal in fortune. The buoyant economy had faltered, and Macmillan had been snubbed by French President Charles de Gaulle in his application for Britain to join the recently formed European Economic ...
28 de jun. de 2024 · Think of Harold Macmillan, Anthony Eden, Ted Heath. And they limped home, in Macmillan’s case, literally with the belief that serving the British state your whole life was the highest thing you...
