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Jul 6, 2012 · It was the most brutal cabinet reshuffle in British political history. Fifty years ago Prime Minister Harold Macmillan shocked the nation by sacking seven ministers in what became known as the ...
Dec 30, 1986 · Harold Macmillan, who overcame a crippling shyness and years of political obscurity to become one of the most successful British prime ministers of the post-World War II era, died Monday at age 92 ...
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Dec 30, 1986 · Tue 30 Dec 1986 09.46 EST. Harold Macmillan was prime minister (from 1957 to 1963) in a world very different from our own. It was a world of consensus politics - now derided as much by ...
Nov 7, 2017 · During the Second World War, Harold Macmillan served in the cabinet of another formidable Tory backbencher, Prime Minister Winston Churchill. And at long last, in 1956, he became Prime Minister himself. By the time Macmillan reached office, his middle way had gone a long way. The post-war settlement, informed by the theories of Keynes, resulted ...
Oct 22, 2010 · Fri 22 Oct 2010 19.06 EDT. A t some point the view settled that Harold Macmillan – one of our longest-serving Old Etonian prime ministers (1957-63) – was a consummate actor-manager rather than ...
Sep 8, 2011 · Ferdinand Mount. by D.R. Thorpe. edited by Peter Catterall. The first thing about Harold Macmillan was his bravery, and it was the last thing too. In the Great War he was wounded five times, at the Battle of Loos and at the Somme. At Delville Wood he was hit in the thigh and pelvis and rolled down into a large shell-hole, where he lay for the ...
Harold was also increasingly portrayed as out of touch. The sacking of 6 cabinet ministers in an event that became known as the ‘night of the long knives’ did little to refresh the government.
