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• Suddenly, dramatically, he has become the foremost critic, of the Government; His personal attacks on Mr. Macmillan have broused the bitterest controversy.

London Express Berrice.

Why should a Tory M.P. attack his Prime Minister? Why should he feel so bitter? Here Lord Lambton, heir to the Earl of Durham, explains, ..

THE PRIME MINISTER AND I

ARE the standards of public life declining? Has the Conservative

Party abandoned not only its traditional policies at home and abroad but also its honour?

•

Are we living in an age where America that he was eventually pressed. In order to check them expediency is the god, and asked if he ever envisaged, an it was, hinled that the Prime where

Minister had not meant what he morailly RO longer Atlantic Uniori.

This point he enlarged upon, said, but had been thinking counts? Are we in fact return- Ing, to an

and said that nothing, in the aloud. to cra comparable Lloyd George's last Government Jong ran, must stop the closcit This, too, proved unsatisfac-

daily.

Association whbh golicles changed.

tory, so a written question con- and the traditions of public life

veniently appeared on the House

A few days later an article by

fell to the lowest cbb of the Mr Drew Middleton, who had century?

There is

been at the Areside chat, appear

of Commons order paper which received in a cunning and subtle

a danger that this cd in the New York Times qne way a denial of something that I

titled "More Perfect Union." It had never said. began:-

"Slowly, reluctantly, but steadily, British political thought

may be the case, and that the House of Commons is allowing itself to be ruled by a Govern ment which has abandoned con- tinulty, and any theme of policy, the highest levels is turning and lives instead from hand to from natural sovereignty to- wards some new grouping of mouth on policies which are

Atlantic States Judged alone by the criterion of

**But it is quite clear that popularly."

the destinies those who direct of the nation are thinking in ternis not only of union with Europe, but some larger union embracing both shores of the Atlantic Ocean."

Lot me Illustrate this by giving an account of what hap pened between Mr Macmillan and myself contering eventual Atlantic Union. +

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the.

A question on the same sub- ject was dealt with in the same manner on Monday of last week, but at long last, on Tuesday, the patter was ventilated in House of Commons, and Mr Macmillan, with the greatest politeness, eventually agreed by Implicatlort thut tho. Atlantic Union had been discussed at the

reside.

I thought the whole thing had now reached a stage when it Now the rightness or wrong-. was important that we in Briness of, Atlantic Union is irrele-

About a month ago a letter lain, as well as American journ vant in this case. What is cils- alists, should know which way tressing is the manner in which from a friend in America asking the Prime Minister's mind was it was dealt with. But even this would not matter if it were an me what Mr Macmillan's new working.

isolated case, but it isn't.

policy was, for remarks that he I therefore drew attention to had made there at the time of what had been discussett at this his justly celebrated speech to fireside chat. UNO had puzzled American commentators.

Mr Macmillan was

In Rome

at the time and when ques-

matter, the

on

Was he becoming a devotee of tioned World Government, or did the skated delicate remarks he had dropped about subject art edd:

It is merely an example of the present method of what Government, of saying

convenient at the moment without consideration of the future or the truth, and being governed at any cost by the

G

bo

round the "At FONIC

the necessity for closer associa- future date, after care, all tion mean that he envisaged's dead, and our children and union between this country and grandchildren are dead this America?

little globe of people must Did he mean he was no longer learn to live together in interested in Europe and the unity."

Commonwealth?

The doubts

What did Macmillan say? What did he mean?

And in a larger sense you have a tragle repetition of this

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necessity of saying that beo- surances that accession would word to Sir Roy. It is not de- ple want to ticar

never be discussed.

fensible by any standards, and it Despite this, secession was. pe- le because these methods have I replied that I didn't know, as it was sometimes nowadays

commanded in the report, and been so widespread during tha now the feeling of the Rhaderian last few years that I have relic- very dificult to know what our policy was going to be from day But a Foreign Office offcial, Shortly before the last clec- leaders is that the British Gov tantly attacked Mr. Macmillan. to day.

supposing that he was doing the lob, Mr Macmillan. asked Sir crament's word counts for noth-

Without Ideallum, withidda Shortly after this there occur right thing by confirming what Hoy Welenticy to accept the ing, and that for the sake of

themo frankness, without a expediency. they have been sold red the how famous fireside chat the Prime Minister had been Monckton Commission. by Mr Macmillan with a hunibet saying, told a journalist that Mir Sir Roy expressed the greatest down the river. of American Journalists.

Macmillan had coined the term reluctance, but eventually he At this it was soon known in "Atlantic Union," and it was said agreed when he was told that confidential circles that he had that he had told the Americans would help the Conservatives to

Once again the rightness or once again ambarked upon this that nothing could stand in its win the election; that if we won

of the we would stand by him; and that wrongness

Monckion grandiose scheme.

way. He airessed so much the ad- This sol the snowball rolling, at any rate the question of seces- Commission is irrelevant.

What is totally, wrong is Mr vantages of closeness of assocla- and doubis about the wisdom of sion would not be considered,, tion between ourselves and Mr Macmillan's policy were ex- He was later given further da- Macmillan's having broken

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