World: Britain: Sunny Acceptance

Harold Macmillan had been looking pale and tired lately. His cheeks were sunken, and in Parliament his replies lacked their old flash and fire. He and his country were on the sidelines of world affairs last week, waiting until Kennedy arrived to tell how he had fared with Khrushchev. It was a strange place for a nation that had long been the world's greatest and a man who had prided himself on being "honest broker'' between the Big Two. But by and large Britons took it rather well. "We understand and approve of the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting." said a British official matter-of-factly....

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