National Affairs: PEACE: A STATE OF ACTIVE EFFORT

Britain's Macmillan Calls for Economic Push

After once turning back to London when his Britannia turboprop airliner sprang an oil leak, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan flew into Washington, then on to Greencastle, Ind. (22,-300) this week to deliver the commencement address at De-Pauw University, successor to the medical school attended by his Hoosier maternal grandfather in 1849. Spelling out "why the Soviet Union has satellites while in the free world we have allies," Macmillan laid out in cousinly candor the tough-minded assumptions that hold the free world together. Excerpts:

AFTER the first World War a sense — of shock made...

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