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...Defense Minister Thorneycroft, who flatly informed McNamara that such a move was wholly unacceptable. During the following week the British press blasted the Kennedy Administration for its tactlessness and infidelity. Stunned government officials, including a large number of M.P.'s, began talking of reprisals and an "agonizing reappraisal" of Anglo-American relations. At Nassau, a hand-wringing Macmillan accepted the U.S.'s viewpoint and received a guarantee for Polaris missiles in lieu of the promised Skybolts...
...such myth is that de Gaulle wants to exclude American influence from the Continent, and substitute for it a purely French hegemony. this is a gross exaggeration. Since 1940, when de Gaulle first mortgaged France to the overwhelming power of the Anglo-Saxons, this gravest concern has been to preserve French liberty of action without trying to go it alone. The long arm of American support has fingers at the end, and it is the grasp of these fingers that de Gaulle wishes to loosen. Yet no one knows better than he how little France would gain from isolation...
...With Anglo-French relations in such an irritable state, Britain announced that the planned visit to Paris of Princess Margaret and her husband, Lord Snowden, for the movie premiere of Lawrence of Arabia, had been canceled "on the advice of the government...
...risk the cost (estimated at upwards of $1 billion) of developing a supersonic jet unless the Government foots a big part of the bill-and so far the Government has shown little inclination to do so. A Soviet supersonic transport is expected within three or four years, and an Anglo-French consortium heavily subsidized by both governments is designing a supersonic liner. By aiming for a less sophisticated Mach 2.2 plane instead of the Mach 3 design favored by U.S. designers, it hopes to have a prototype ready by 1967 at a cost of only $450 million...
Though conceding that the Soviet Union and the Anglo-French will fly supersonic jetliners before the U.S., Federal Aviation Administrator Najeeb Halaby nevertheless contends that "we will be the first to field the best supersonic transport." The trouble is that being last with the best may not be good enough. The U.S. is already far behind. Halaby has appointed a committee to look into Government sponsorship of a supersonic transport; he hopes to present such a plan to President Kennedy by summer. But the Administration's new budget calls for no funds for supersonic transports, and the only Government...