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The Laotian Crisis,y alongside the United States in the comparatively insignificant state of Laos in 1961–2, rather than during the collapse of French Indo-China in 1954, or South Vietnam after 1965. One can equally well pose Khrushchev’s question to US Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson of British policy at this juncture:

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The Castro Question and the Cuban Missile Crisis,arge in any analysis of Anglo-American relations in this period. In the minds of the key policy-makers on both sides of the Atlantic the missile crisis was closely linked to the problem of Berlin discussed in the previous chapter. Both Macmillan and Kennedy feared that Khrushchev’s goal in placing m

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The Middle East,sparked by a dispute in the Caribbean to deal with what must have seemed the much more mundane matter of a civil war in Yemen. In fact, in the tradition of Anglo-American relations over the Middle East, the Yemeni conflict was to be the cause of much tension between London and Washington, and was to

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The Congo Crisis,ect threat to British interests. After all, the collapse of order and the outbreak of civil strife in its former colony were surely far more the responsibility of the Belgian Government? Nevertheless, the denouement of the crisis, involving the forcible reintegration of the secessionist province of

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The EEC Application,f the British application to join the EEC. In Harold Macmillan’s mind, this application had been conceived in the wake of the collapse of the Paris summit of May 1960 as a means to maintain Britain’s international economic and political position in the face of the unreliability of the Anglo-American

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The Search for a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,uclear test ban treaty. Harold Macmillan’s personal role in this field makes for what is at once a fascinating, paradoxical and problematical study. On the one hand, as we have seen in the previous chapter, he was tenacious in his pursuit of an ‘independent’ nuclear capability for Great Britain. On

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Conclusion,e final chapter of Anglo-American relations under his premiership. Two months later the prime minister was forced by ill health to relinquish his office, and a month after that Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. Although history rarely lends itself to the neat drawing of dividing lines, on this occ