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During the Anglo-French invasion of Suez, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin had pointedly reminded Britain that it was within range of Russian missiles ("There are countries now which need not have sent a navy or air force to the coasts of Britain, but could have used other means, such as rocket technique"). The same warning may soon be made to Russia itself. The Eisenhower-Macmillan Bermuda agreement to provide Britain with U.S.-supplied missiles (TIME, April 1) did not represent a basic shift in the East-West power balance relationship, but it did represent something that the Russians could...
...more adamant. Inflexibly, the tough-minded elder statesman pointed out that Makarios had "deliberately refrained" from meeting Britain's conditions for his release. To free the Archbishop now, he insisted, would be an act of disloyalty to Turkey, a trusted ally who had stood by Britain throughout the Suez crisis and who regarded Makarios' goal of enosis (union of Cyprus with Greece) as a direct threat to its security. Cyprus, which lies only 40 miles off the Turkish coast, is the only major island on the sea approaches to Turkey that is not already in Greek hands...
...Tory Party and with Macmillan personally than the sibilant, stern Lord Salisbury. Besides being relatives by marriage, Macmillan and Salisbury have been political allies ever since 1938 when Salisbury, along with Anthony Eden, resigned from Neville Chamberlain's government in protest at British appeasement of Mussolini. When Suez and ill-health drove Eden from No. 10 Downing Street last winter, it was Salisbury, together with Sir Winston Churchill, who persuaded the Queen to name Macmillan Prime Minister instead of "Rab" Butler (who had once supported Chamberlain's appeasement...
...barbs against England's men of the cloth, declaring that "it can no longer be presumed that a parson will even be respected as a man, let alone revered as a priest." More recently, Altrincham's ire was directed against Tory Anthony Eden's policy on Suez...
...When the Syrians blew up the Iraqi pipelines to the Mediterranean during the attack on Suez, the program suffered a $700,000-a-day loss of revenue...