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1 giorno fa · Under the premierships of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan he was appointed to a series of increasingly senior posts, including Leader of the House of Lords and Foreign Secretary. In the latter post, which he held from 1960 to 1963, he supported United States resolve in the Cuban Missile Crisis and in August 1963 ...
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6 giorni fa · Harold Macmillan (1957–1960) Ian Henderson George Erskine Kenneth O'Connor Evelyn Baring Terence Gavaghan: Dedan Kimathi Musa Mwariama Waruhiu Itote Stanley Mathenge (MIA) Kubu Kubu Strength; 10,000 regular troops 21,000 police 25,000 Kikuyu Home Guard: 35,000+ Members: Casualties and losses; 3,000 native Kenyan police and soldiers ...
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1 giorno fa · Prime Minister Harold Macmillan gave the famous "Wind of Change" speech in South Africa in February 1960, where he spoke of "the wind of change blowing through this continent". Macmillan urgently wanted to avoid the same kind of colonial war that France was fighting in Algeria.
3 mag 2024 · The first part of the book is an account of Macmillan and de Gaulle’s early lives. Born in the 1890s, there were little obvious similarities in their upbringings. De Gaulle’s mother was devoutly religious, his father a minor aristocrat who instilled in his children tales of France’s greatness.
6 giorni fa · The Elections. The general election of 1964 was held on October 15, some five years and six days since the previous election. The Conservatives, having been in power for 13 years and seeking a fourth term, once again entered the election with a new leader. Sir Alec Douglas-Home had succeeded Harold Macmillan as prime minister and leader of the ...
26 apr 2024 · Harold Macmillian, British prime minister from 1957-1963, was educated at Eton and Oxford and, after working in his family's publishing house, became a member of Parliament in 1924. As a Conservative MP, he criticized Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policies, only advancing to Cabinet office during World War II.
2 giorni fa · University of Ulster. Citation: Professor Emmett O'Connor, review of Jack Lynch: A Biography, (review no. 784) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/784. Date accessed: 9 May, 2024. Harold Macmillan once said that what he feared most was ‘events’. Jack Lynch was one of those politicians who was ambushed by ‘events’.
