[110], Macmillan was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in December 1955. He even tried (in vain) to demand that Salisbury, not Butler, should preside over the Cabinet in Eden's absence. In 1935 he was one of 15 MPs to write "Planning for Employment". [139], Macmillan filled government posts with 35 Old Etonians, seven of them in Cabinet. [259], Macmillan died at Birch Grove, the Macmillan family mansion on the edge of Ashdown Forest near Chelwood Gate in East Sussex, four days after Christmas in 1986. Macmillan's wartime diaries were better received. He behaved immaculately throughout her long affair, giving his name to Sarah, her daughter born in 1930, fathered by Boothby. [91] He was Secretary of State for Air for two months in Churchill's caretaker government, 'much of which was taken up in electioneering', there being 'nothing much to be done in the way of forward planning'. It is quite true, many of Your Lordships will remember it operating in the nursery. She was apparently willing. [56] In 1928, Macmillan was described by his political hero, and now Parliamentary colleague, David Lloyd George, as a "born rebel". According to Michael Bloch, there have long been rumours that Macmillan was expelled from Eton for homosexuality. "Harold Macmillan and appeasement: implications for the future study of Macmillan as a foreign policy actor.". There was nothing for it but divorce: a grave step in those days. Since Macmillan's death, his diaries for the 1950s and 1960s have also been published, both edited by Peter Catterall: Macmillan burned his diary for the climax of the Suez Affair, supposedly at Eden's request, although in Campbell's view more likely to protect his own reputation. In Southeast Asia, Malaya, Sabah (British North Borneo), Sarawak and Singapore became independent as Malaysia in 1963. He had to have a plaster cast put on his face. [222], The Profumo affair of 1963 permanently damaged the credibility of Macmillan's government. Outside of politics he . ", Torreggiani, Valerio. [223], By the summer of 1963 Conservative Party Chairman Lord Poole was urging the ageing Macmillan to retire. Byl pragmatickm politikem, ped druhou svtovou vlkou kritizoval appeasement a do vysok politiky se dostal jako chrnnec Winstona Churchilla. [196] Macmillan told his Foreign Secretary, Lord Home "there is no reason for us to help the Americans with Cuba". [95] 'It is a gambleit will make or mar your political career,' Churchill said, 'but every humble home will bless your name if you succeed. [263], The House of Commons paid its tribute on 12 January 1987, with much reference made to his book The Middle Way. [251], Macmillan was one of several people who advised Thatcher to set up a small War Cabinet to manage the Falklands War. Sex was not yet openly discussed - not even between husband and wife - and to splash details of illicit affairs would probably have been counter-productive. She said to me once: 'People say I'm unfaithful but I've always been faithful to Bob.'. Although it is sometimes stated that he believed himself to have inoperable prostate cancer, he in fact knew it was benign before the operation. Birth. . He sent Lord Hailsham to negotiate the Test Ban Treaty, a sign that he was grooming him as a potential successor. There was something in all these views, which he did little to discourage, and which commanded public respect into the early 1960s. [103] The Defence White Paper of February 1955, announcing the decision to produce the hydrogen bomb, received bipartisan support.[104]. [219] Macmillan's handling of the Vassall affair in which an Admiralty clerk, John Vassall, was convicted in October 1962 of passing secrets to the Soviet Union undermined his "Super-Mac" reputation for competence. After the ceasefire a motion on the Order Paper attacking the US for "gravely endangering the Atlantic Alliance" attracted the signatures of over a hundred MPs. [27], Macmillan spent the final two years of the war in hospital undergoing a long series of operations. Macmillan and Butler met Aldrich on 21 November. [255] He is the last Prime Minister to have been given an hereditary peerage. He almost became Conservative candidate for the safe seat of Hitchin in 1931. [203] It is considered a landmark in the process of decolonisation. He was a One Nation Tory of the Disraelian tradition and supported the post-war consensus. Yet no whisper of gossip about Dorothy ever escaped from the still tightly-knit establishment. In June 1944 he argued for a British-led thrust up the Ljubljana Gap into Central Europe (Operation "Armpit") instead of the planned diversion of US and Free French forces to the South of France (Operation Dragoon). Edward 'Ted' Heath presided over one of the most difficult eras of the 20th century, with his tenure at 10 Downing Street encompassing . As early as January 1956 he told Eden's press secretary William D. Clark that it would be "interesting to see how long Anthony can stay in the saddle". Macmillan felt that if the costs of holding onto a particular territory outweighed the benefits then it should be dispensed with. But Macmillan would not give his wife the divorce she and her lover both craved. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. Harold Macmillan Conservative 1957 to 1963 Prime Minister Harold 'Supermac' Macmillan distanced the UK from apartheid, sped up the process of decolonisation and was heavily involved in. [280], Alistair Horne, his official biographer, concedes that after his re-election in 1959 Macmillan's premiership suffered a series of major setbacks. [39] He relinquished his commission on 1 April 1920. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [175], Britain's balance of payments problems led Chancellor Selwyn Lloyd to impose a seven-month wage freeze in 1961[176] and, amongst other factors, this caused the government to lose popularity and a series of by-elections in March 1962, of which the most famous was Orpington on 14 March. Despite this, three children were born to them in the first five years. [206] The result was the Indonesian Confrontation, an undeclared war between Britain vs. Indonesia that began in 1963 and continued to 1966.[212]. [197] The two envoys who arrived in Moscow were W. Averell Harriman representing the United States and Lord Hailsham representing the United Kingdom. Eden sent out Robert Dixon to abolish the job of Resident Minister, there being then no job for Macmillan back in the UK, but he managed to prevent his job being abolished. [25] He fought on the front lines in France, where the casualty rate was high, as was the probability of an "early and violent death". that as the US replaced Britain as the world's leading power, British politicians and diplomats should aim to guide her in the same way that Greek slaves and freedmen had advised powerful Romans). [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. Lady Dorothy Evelyn Macmillan GBE (ne Cavendish; 28 July 1900 21 May 1966) was an English socialite and the third daughter of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, and Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. [277] At times he portrayed himself as the descendant of a Scottish crofter, as a businessman, aristocrat, intellectual and soldier. Official bank rate, which had been kept low since the 1930s, was hiked in September 1958. The Laos crisis had a major crisis in Anglo-Thai relations as the Thais pressed for armed forces of all SEATO members to brought to "Charter Yellow", a state of heightened alert that the British representative to SEATO vetoed. [61] "Chips" Channon described him as the "unprepossessing, bookish, eccentric member for Stockton-on-Tees" and recorded (8 July 1936) that he had been sent a "frigid note" by Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin. Lady Dorothy died on 21 May 1966, aged 65, after 46 years of marriage. [219] D. R. Thorpe writes that from January 1963 "Macmillan's strategy lay in ruins", leaving him looking for a "graceful exit". Her great-uncle was Spencer Cavendish, 8th Duke of Devonshire, who was leader of the Liberal Party in the 1870s, and a close colleague of William Ewart Gladstone, Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Salisbury. This time backbench MPs and junior ministers were to be asked their opinion, rather than just the Cabinet as in 1957, and efforts would be made to sample opinion amongst peers and constituency activists. 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. South Africa left the multiracial Commonwealth in 1961 and Macmillan acquiesced to the dissolution of the Central African Federation by the end of 1963. Rab Butler, Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson) who, often through no fault of their own, had not seen military service in either World War. He liked to say: 'I have it both ways: my grandfather was a crofter, my wife's father a Duke.'. The whole Arab world will despise us Nuri [es-Said, British-backed Prime Minister of Iraq] and our friends will fall. "[264], A public memorial service, attended by the Queen and thousands of mourners, was held on 10 February 1987 in Westminster Abbey. According to Labour Shadow Chancellor Harold Wilson, Macmillan was 'first in, first out':[117] first very supportive of the invasion, then a prime mover in Britain's humiliating withdrawal in the wake of the financial crisis caused by pressure from the US government. [186], Macmillan was scheduled to visit the United States in April 1961, but with the Pathet Lao winning a series of victories in the Laotian civil war, Macmillan was summoned on what he called the "Laos dash" for an emergency summit with Kennedy in Key West on 26 March 1961. She was convinced not least because she was constantly told so that she. Macmillan supported the creation of the National Economic Development Council (NEDC, known as "Neddy"), which was announced in the summer of 1961 and first met in 1962. I really haven't a clue how to set about the job". [184] Macmillan's failure to make Eisenhower "say sorry" to Khrushchev forced him to reconsider his "Greeks and Romans" foreign policy as he privately conceded that could no "longer talk usefully to the Americans". Eden appointed Duff Cooper as Representative to the Free French government in Algeria (after the liberation of mainland France, he later continued as Ambassador to France from November 1944) and Noel Charles as Ambassador to Italy to reduce Macmillan's influence. I am passionately in love with her. In the 1950s Macmillan served as Foreign Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer under Anthony Eden. He suffered pain and partial immobility for the rest of his life. His political opinions at this stage were an eclectic mix of moderate Conservatism, moderate Liberalism and Fabian Socialism. He was as trenchant a critic of his successors in his old age as he had been of his predecessors in his youth. [59] In September 1932 he made his first visit to the USSR. Churchill visited Italy in August 1944. He bore no grudge against Thorneycroft and brought him and Powell, of whom he was more wary, back into the government in 1960. Anthony Bevins, 'How Supermac Was "Hounded Out of Office" by Band of 20 Opponents'. Leading an advance platoon in the Battle of FlersCourcelette (part of the Battle of the Somme) in September 1916, he was severely wounded, and lay for over twelve hours in a shell hole, sometimes feigning death when Germans passed, and reading the classical playwright Aeschylus in the original Greek. I remember Lady Dorothy as an odd mixture of shyness and charm and great warmth of character. This was an unfair charge." 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. [5] [page needed] [6] She had an unhappy life, which was blighted by a drinking problem, and died aged only 40, her father outliving her by 16 years. Over Macmillan's objections, Kennedy decided to have the United Nations forces to evict the white mercenaries from Katanga and reintegrate Katanga into the Congo. birth date: 1894-02-10. birth place: Chelsea. Although Macmillan played an important role in drafting the "Industrial Charter" ("Crossbencher" in the Sunday Express called it the second edition of The Middle Way) he now, as MP for a safe seat, adopted a somewhat more right-wing public persona, defending private enterprise and fiercely opposing the Labour government in the House of Commons. [236] His service in the House of Commons totalled 37 years. [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. [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. There, Macmillan described the pain he had endured for 45 years over the affair and birth of Sarah, whom he treated as his own until her death in 1970 following a fall. She had already received advice to exclude the Treasury from Frank Cooper (the Permanent Under-Secretary for Defence), not least because of Macmillan's own behaviour, as Chancellor, in demanding a halt to the Suez operation. Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, OM, PC, FRS (10 February 1894 - 29 December 1986) was a British Conservative statesman and politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Lord Hailsham, the former Lord Chancellor, believes the law should be changed to protect people's privacy: politicians or anyone else. [87][88][89], Macmillan toyed with an offer to succeed Duff Cooper as MP for the safe Conservative seat of Westminster St George's. Their lavish wedding, on 21 April at St. Margaret's, Westminster, was attended by royalty, aristocracy and leading literary figures, and was hailed as the social event of the London season.[4]. We must run AFHQ (Allied Forces Headquarters) as the Greek slaves ran the operations of the Emperor Claudius". There is a moral right to privacy and I think it should be a legal right. [143] Many cabinet ministers often complained that Macmillan took the advice of his private secretaries more seriously than he did their own. But we loved each other, and there is really nothing you can do about this, except die. However, Butler and Reginald Maudling (who was very popular with backbench MPs at that time) declined to push for his resignation, especially after a tide of support from Conservative activists around the country. [73], After Harry Crookshank had refused the job, Macmillan attained real power and Cabinet rank late in 1942 as British Minister Resident at Algiers in the Mediterranean, recently liberated in Operation Torch. Macmillan was a protg of the Union President Walter Monckton, later a Cabinet colleague; as such, he became Secretary then Junior Treasurer (elected unopposed in March 1914, then an unusual occurrence) of the Union, and would in his biographers' view "almost certainly" have been President had the war not intervened. [18][pageneeded], Macmillan went up to Balliol College in 1912, where he joined many political societies. [209] In his diary, Macmillan called Sukarno "a cross between Liberace and Little Lord Fauntleroy". [64] He supported the independent candidate, Lindsay, at the Oxford by-election. [90], Macmillan returned to England after the European war, feeling himself 'almost a stranger at home'. Feeling that the Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was being obstructionist, Macmillan telephoned Kennedy on 11 April 1963 to suggest a joint letter to Khrushchev to break the impasse. He finally resigned, receiving the Queen from his hospital bed, on 18 October 1963, after nearly seven years as prime minister. [134] Macmillan argued at Cabinet on 4 January that Suez should be regarded as a "strategic retreat" like Mons or Dunkirk. The incident prompted an inquiry from the War Office as to whether the Guards Reserve Battalion "could be relied on". encouraged Eden to attack in order to destroy him as Prime Minister), noting that Macmillan privately put the chances of success at 5149. [224] On 17 June 1963, he survived a Parliamentary vote with a majority of 69,[225] one fewer than had been thought necessary for his survival, and was afterwards joined in the smoking-room only by his son and son-in-law, not by any Cabinet minister. Their advice was rejected and in January 1958 the three Treasury ministersPeter Thorneycroft, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Birch, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, and Enoch Powell, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury and seen as their intellectual ringleaderresigned. [30], Macmillan saw himself as both a "gownsman" and a "swordsman" and would later display open contempt for other politicians (e.g. This contributed to the Windscale fire on the night of 10 October 1957, which broke out in the plutonium plant of Pile No. Along with Harold Macmillan, he was an outspoken critic of Margaret Thatcher. [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. a Labour-dominated coalition in which some Conservatives would serve, the reverse of the Conservative-dominated coalition which had governed Britain since 1931. Britain was saved from a potentially embarrassing commitment when the Winter War ended in March 1940 (Finland would later fight on the German side against the USSR). Harold Macmillan, who was prime minister from 1957 to 1963, believed in fidelity, loved his wife, and was heartbroken when she died. John Gray, 'Accident disclosures bring calls for review of U.K. secrecy laws'. We used to have battles and rows but they were quarrels. Lady Dorothy Cavendish, third daughter of the ninth Duke of Devonshire, was born in 1900 and brought up in the old tradition of great houses, nannies, governesses and noblesse oblige. Cambridge University Press, 2017, p. 89, Thorpe 2010, pp. Thorpe 2010, p. 95. In his diary Harold Nicolson noted the feelings of the Tory backbenchers: "They feel that Winston is too old and Anthony (Eden) too weak. Macmillan had opposed Eden's trip to Jamaica and told Butler (15 December, the day after Eden's return) that younger members of the Cabinet wanted Eden out. Lady Dorothy was also descended from William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, who served as Prime Minister from 1756 to 1757 in communion with Newcastle and Pitt the Elder. So, in the last resort, we must use force and defy opinion, here and overseas".[119]. He resumed working with the firm from 1945 to 1951 when the party was in opposition. [204] During the Malaya Emergency, the majority of the Communist guerrillas were ethnic Chinese, and British policies tended to favour the Muslim Malays whose willingness to follow their sultans and imams made them more anti-communist. 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. Political pressure mounted on the Government, and Macmillan agreed to the 1957 Bank Rate Tribunal. Heath is the P.M's daughter Sarah.Photo shows Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Heath and Lady Dorothy Macmillan who holds they baby - after the Christening this afternoon Lady Macmillan today celebrates her 39th wedding anniversary . It may well be the end of British influence and strength forever. [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. [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. The American cockiness is shaken.President is under severe attack for the first timeThe atmosphere is now such that almost anything might be decided, however revolutionary". [209] Sukarno was the leader of the most populous nation in Southeast Asia and though officially neutral in the Cold War, tended to take anti-Western positions, and Kennedy favoured accommodating him to bring him closer to the West; for example, supporting Indonesia's claim to Dutch New Guinea even through the Netherlands was a NATO ally. Reconfiguring the nation's defences to meet the realities of the nuclear age, he ended National Service, strengthened the nuclear forces by acquiring Polaris, and pioneered the Nuclear Test Ban with the United States and the Soviet Union. [207] On 8 December 1962, Indonesia sponsored a rebellion in the British protectorate of Brunei, leading to Macmillan to dispatch Gurkhas to put down the rebellion against the sultan. She met Macmillan in 1919, when he was aide-de- camp to her father, then Governor- General of Canada. In April 1957, Macmillan reaffirmed his strong support for the British nuclear weapons programme. In October 1963 he disclaimed his peerages for life, took the name Sir Alec Douglas-Home, and succeeded Harold Macmillan as prime minister during a Conservative Party crisis, the most spectacular feature of which was an adultery scandal involving John Dennis Profumo, secretary of state for war from 1960 to 1963. [125] Faced with Macmillan's prediction of doom, the cabinet had no choice but to accept these terms and withdraw. He was assassinated in November, shortly after the end of Macmillan's premiership. give up the Danzig corridor). "[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. [21], Volunteering as soon as war was declared, Macmillan was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 19 November 1914. [163][164], On 25 March 1957, Macmillan acceded to Eisenhower's request to base 60 Thor IRBMs in England under joint control to replace the nuclear bombers of the Strategic Air Command, which had been stationed under joint control since 1948 and were approaching obsolescence. After Munich he was looking for a "1931 in reverse", i.e. After Butler's downbeat remarks, ten minutes or so in length, Macmillan delivered a stirring thirty-five minute speech described by Enoch Powell as "one of the most horrible things that I remember in politics (Macmillan) with all the skill of the old actor manager succeeded in false-footing Rab. It meant obtaining scarce steel, cement and timber when the Treasury were trying to maximise exports and minimise imports. [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". Macmillan believed in the value of nuclear weapons both as a deterrent against the Soviet Union and to maintain Britain's claim to be great power, but he was also worried about the popularity of the CND. Macmillan had further meetings with Aldrich and Winston Churchill after Eden left for Jamaica (23 November) while briefing journalists (disingenuously) that he planned to retire and go to the Lords. 'Windscale: Britain's Biggest Nuclear Disaster', broadcast on Monday, 8 October 2007, at 2100 BST on BBC Two. {long pause} Whether she's leading you in the right direction "[249]. The Canal remained in Egyptian hands, and Nasser's government continued its support of Arab and African national resistance movements opposed to the British and French presence in the region and on the continent. By the time he left office, largely unlamented at the time, he was associated not with prosperity but with "anachronism and decay". Churchill seemed to agree with all this. Kennedy wanted to avoid the charge that the United States would be acting unilaterally in Southeast Asia if it did intervene in Laos and because Britain was a member of SEATO and he would face domestic criticism if the United States was the only SEATO member to fight in Laos. Harold Macmillan was, of course, not solely or even pre-eminently responsible for that. Boothby wrote to his friend Beaverbrook: 'Don't let your boys hunt me down.' Macmillan had been elected Chancellor of the University of Oxford in 1960, in a campaign masterminded by Hugh Trevor-Roper, and held this office for the rest of his life, frequently presiding over college events, making speeches and tirelessly raising funds. Macmillan visited Greece on 11 December 1944. He noted that the decision represented a break with tradition, and predicted that the snub would rebound on the university. Edward Marriott, 'Obituary Eileen O'Casey', Seidman, Michael. He was an habitue of Birch Grove, the Macmillan family home near East Grinstead, Sussex, throughout the Fifties. [62], The Next Five Years Group, to which Macmillan had belonged, was wound up in November 1937. He was appointed UK High Commissioner for the Advisory Council for Italy late in 1943. [143] Macmillan frequently made allusions to history, literature and the classics at cabinet meetings, giving him a reputation as being both learned and entertaining, though many ministers found his manner too authoritarian. He also once commented that White's was 75% gentlemen and 25% crooks, the perfect combination for a club. [199], Macmillan's first government had seen the first phase of the sub-Saharan African independence movement, which accelerated under his second government. 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