Three hours after Dwight Eisenhower welcomed Britain's Elizabeth II to the White House, London and Washington simultaneously announced another British visit: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would land in Washington this week for summit talks with the President about the gravity of Soviet missile diplomacy and Soviet penetration in the Middle East. It was the first emergency-induced U.S. trip for a British Prime Minister since Clement Attlee came during the Korean crisis.
During their Bermuda conference last March, the President and Macmillan informally agreed to future meetings; a Macmillan trip to Washington had since been tentatively planned...
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