[11] From the age of six or seven he received introductory lessons in classical Latin and Greek at Mr Gladstone's day school, close by in Sloane Square. He thought he had to build up the family publishing business to make himself worthy of her; he was star-struck by her. The Boothby/Lady Dorothy affair was a magnificent passion based on obstacles: and if they weren't there, she created them. . Married Andrew Heath in 1953; two children. After Munich he was looking for a "1931 in reverse", i.e. In October 1942 Harold Nicolson recorded Macmillan as predicting "extreme socialism" after the war. Extraordinarily, in his autobiography, Recollections of a Rebel, published 12 years after Dorothy's death and 11 years after his marriage to a woman 33 years his junior, Boothby does not mention the affair at all. [171] Macmillan believed that the American policies towards the Soviet Union were too rigid and confrontational, and favoured a policy of dtente with the aim of relaxing Cold War tensions. '[102], A major theme of his tenure at Defence was the ministry's growing reliance on the nuclear deterrent, in the view of some critics, to the detriment of conventional forces. [241], Macmillan was a member of many clubs. 1, and nuclear contaminants travelled up a chimney where the filters blocked some, but not all, of the contaminated material. The deportations and Macmillan's involvement later became a source of controversy because of the harsh treatment meted out to Nazi collaborators and anti-partisans by the receiving countries, and because in the confusion V Corps went beyond the terms agreed at Yalta and Allied Forces Headquarters directives by repatriating 4000 White Russian troops and 11,000 civilian family members, who could not properly be regarded as Soviet citizens. [1] Caricatured as "Supermac", he was known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability. [70] Though a junior minister he was a member of the Privy Council, and he spoke in the House of Commons for Colonial Secretaries Lord Moyne and Lord Cranborne. According to Labour Shadow Chancellor Harold Wilson, Macmillan was 'first in, first out':[117] first very supportive of the invasion, then a prime mover in Britain's humiliating withdrawal in the wake of the financial crisis caused by pressure from the US government. Official bank rate, which had been kept low since the 1930s, was hiked in September 1958. Rab Butler, Hugh Gaitskell, Harold Wilson) who, often through no fault of their own, had not seen military service in either World War. His grandson and heir Alexander, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden, said: "In the last 48 hours he was very weak but entirely reasonable and intelligent. [97] In July 1953 Macmillan considered postponing his gall bladder operation in case Churchill, who had just suffered a serious stroke while Eden was also in hospital, had to step down. [5] Near the end of his premiership, his government was rocked by the Vassall and Profumo scandals, which to cultural conservatives and supporters of opposing parties alike seemed to symbolise moral decay of the British establishment. In 1935, believing that the affair with Dorothy was on the wane, Boothby proposed to one of her cousins, Diana Cavendish. [259], Macmillan died at Birch Grove, the Macmillan family mansion on the edge of Ashdown Forest near Chelwood Gate in East Sussex, four days after Christmas in 1986. Her husband, who was created Earl of Stockton in 1984, outlived her by 20 years. Thorpe argues that despite his 1960 "Winds of Change" speech, he was largely pushed into rapid independence for African countries by Maudling and Macleod. [74] Macmillan built a rapport with US General Dwight D. Eisenhower, then Supreme Allied Commander in the Mediterranean (SACMED), which proved helpful in his career,[75] and Richard Crossman later recalled that Macmillan's "Greeks in the Roman Empire" metaphor dated from this time (i.e. In "Economic Aspects of Defence", early in 1939, he called for a Ministry of Supply. The fact that Boothby liked and respected Macmillan, and that both were MPs, made the situation worse. [77] At the Casablanca Conference Macmillan helped to secure US acceptance, if not recognition, of the Free French leader Charles de Gaulle. We were never tempted to compromise the security of our forces for financial reasons. Despite this, three children were born to them in the first five years. In 1929 Lady Dorothy began a lifelong affair with the Conservative politician Robert Boothby, an arrangement that scandalised high society but remained unknown to the general public. Gott, 'Independent British Deterrent', p. 247. the "soundings" and the accompanying political intrigues are discussed in detail in. He was "unique in the affection of the British people". [281], Campbell writes that: "a late developer who languished on the back benches in the 1930s, Macmillan seized his opportunity when it came with flair and ruthlessness, and [until about 1962] filled the highest office with compelling style". . Macmillan was a protg of the Union President Walter Monckton, later a Cabinet colleague; as such, he became Secretary then Junior Treasurer (elected unopposed in March 1914, then an unusual occurrence) of the Union, and would in his biographers' view "almost certainly" have been President had the war not intervened. Once, when I got engaged to an American heiress, she pursued me from Chatsworth to Paris and from Paris to Lisbon. [231], Enoch Powell claimed that it was wrong of Macmillan to seek to monopolise the advice given to the Queen in this way. [280], Alistair Horne, his official biographer, concedes that after his re-election in 1959 Macmillan's premiership suffered a series of major setbacks. He then returned to the front lines in France. Hearing evidence in the winter of 1957 and reporting in January 1958, this inquiry exonerated all involved in what some journalists perceived to be a whitewash. Work. The canal was blocked by the Egyptians, and most oil shipments were delayed as tankers had to go around Africa. 'I can only suppose, without knowing anything about that particular relationship, that these considerations obtained, and I think it's more decent and more civilised. He was an habitue of Birch Grove, the Macmillan family home near East Grinstead, Sussex, throughout the Fifties. [43] Dick Leonard reports that Alistair Horne refers to "inevitable rumours" and that "he left for the 'usual reasons' for boys to be expelled from public schools".[44]. This surprised some observers who had expected that Eden's deputy Rab Butler would be chosen. [108] He very often wore either an Old Etonian or a Brigade of Guards tie. [citation needed], D. R. Thorpe writes that by the early 1960s Macmillan was seen as "the epitome of all that was wrong with anachronistic Britain. If they were reasonably discreet, their private lives remained a matter for themselves and their immediate circle. Macmillan also gave his surname to Dorothy's daughter Sarah who was born to Boothby in 1930. It is quite true, many of Your Lordships will remember it operating in the nursery. Macmillan's policy overrode the hostility of white minorities and the Conservative Monday Club. Then there is the growing division of comparative prosperity in the south and an ailing north and Midlands. [236] His service in the House of Commons totalled 37 years. Ben Pimlott later described this as the "biggest political misjudgement of her reign". [158] As a result, safety margins for radioactive materials inside the Windscale reactor were eroded. [255] He is the last Prime Minister to have been given an hereditary peerage. Lady Dorothy was also descended from William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, who served as Prime Minister from 1756 to 1757 in communion with Newcastle and Pitt the Elder. It sparked debate as to whether Labour (now led by Hugh Gaitskell) could win a general election again. [143], He was nicknamed "Supermac" in 1958 by the cartoonist "Vicky" (Victor Weisz), who intended to suggest that Macmillan was trying set himself up as a "Superman" figure. In March 1932 he published "The State and Industry" (not to be confused with his earlier pamphlet "Industry and the State"). There, Macmillan described the pain he had endured for 45 years over the affair and birth of Sarah, whom he treated as his own until her death in 1970 following a fall. Whether he was ever a mainstream Conservative, rather than a skilful exponent of the postwar consensus, is more doubtful. [170] Subsequently, Macmillan was to learn that neither Eisenhower nor Kennedy shared the assumption that he applied to the "Declaration of Interdependence" that the American president and the British Prime Minister had equal power over the decisions of war and peace. Boothby made several attempts to escape from Dorothy but his mistress's overwhelming jealousy, as well as his love for her, always prevented him. [192], The failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in April 1961 made Kennedy distrust the hawkish advice he received from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the CIA, and he ultimately decided against intervention in Laos, much to Macmillan's private relief. [262], Tributes came from around the world. Macmillan's speech was much commented on, and a few days later he made a speech in the House of Lords, referring to it: When I ventured the other day to criticise the system I was, I am afraid, misunderstood. Heath's bail of 100,000 rupees (HK$25,300) has been put up by a local resident. Harold Macmillan, 1957-1963 Queen Elizabeth II invited Harold Macmillan to form a government in 1957 after the leadership of the Conservative party became vacant between elections. 'She was unable to have children herself as a result of an abortion the family made her go through with. He took the title from his former parliamentary seat on the edge of the Durham coalfields, and in his maiden speech in the House of Lords he criticised Thatcher's handling of the coal miners' strike and her characterisation of striking miners as 'the enemy within'. [143] Lloyd recalled that Macmillan: "regarded the Cabinet as an instrument to play upon, a body to be molded to his willvery rarely did he fail to get his way"[143] Macmillan generally allowed his ministers much leeway in managing their portfolios, and only intervened if he felt something had gone wrong. He settled for spending cuts instead, and himself threatened resignation until he was allowed to cut bread and milk subsidies, something the Cabinet had not permitted Butler to do.[113]. [189] The same report stated that a war with China in Laos would "be a bottomless pit in which our limited military resources would rapidly disappear". [30], Macmillan saw himself as both a "gownsman" and a "swordsman" and would later display open contempt for other politicians (e.g. [65], Macmillan visited Finland in February 1940, then the subject of great sympathy in Britain as it was being attacked by the USSR, then loosely allied to Nazi Germany. A truce was negotiated in January 1945, enabling a pro-British regime to remain in power, as Churchill had demanded in the Percentages agreement the previous autumn. [197] Through Khrushchev's reply to the Macmillan-Kennedy letter was mostly negative, Macmillan pressed Kennedy to take up the one positive aspect in his reply, namely that if a senior Anglo-American team would arrive in Moscow, he would welcome them to discuss how best to proceed about a nuclear test ban treaty. Macmillan is best remembered for the "affluent society", which he inherited rather than created in the late 1950s, but chancellors came and went and by the early 1960s economic policy was "nothing short of a shambles", while his achievements in foreign policy made little difference to the lives of the public. [183] Macmillan pressed Eisenhower to apologise to Khrushchev, which the president refused to do. While the establishment would protect its own - as it did the King and Wallis Simpson - it did not forgive those who publicly breached the unwritten code. Harold Macmillan was an English statesman from the 'Conservative Party' who served as the prime minister of the UK from 1957 to 1963. Having had an abortion in 1951, she was unable to have children of her own and the couple adopted two sons. It happened within living memory. In 1936, Harold and his brother Daniel took control of the firm, with the former focusing on the political and non-fiction side of the business. [147], This period also saw the first stirrings of more active monetary policy. She was captivated by Boothby's charm and sophistication; he was flattered by her attentions, which quickly developed into an overwhelming and lifelong obsession. Leading an advance platoon in the Battle of FlersCourcelette (part of the Battle of the Somme) in September 1916, he was severely wounded, and lay for over twelve hours in a shell hole, sometimes feigning death when Germans passed, and reading the classical playwright Aeschylus in the original Greek. The Profumo affair directly contributed to Macmillan's departure from 10 Downing Street in October 1963,. [217] The full Denning report into the Profumo Scandal was published on 26 September 1963. Losing his seat in 1929, he regained it in 1931, soon after which he spoke out against the high rate of unemployment in Stockton-on-Tees. Sir Alistair Horne. [250]:148 Having first inquired whether Argentina was known to have atomic weapons, Macmillan's advice was to appoint a senior military advisor, as Pug Ismay had been in the Second World War (in the event Admiral Lewin, Chief of Defence Staff, performed this role). Lamb argues that it is unfair to blame Macmillan for excessively quick African independence (resulting in many former colonies becoming dictatorships), or for the Beeching Plan (which was accepted by Labour in 1964, although Macmillan himself had reservations and had asked civil servants to draw up plans for extra road-building), and argues that had he remained in power Macmillan would never have allowed inflation to get as far out of hand as it did in the 1970s.[5]. Macmillan was born on 10 February 1894, at 52 Cadogan Place in Chelsea, London, to Maurice Crawford Macmillan (18531936), a publisher, and his wife, the former Helen (Nellie) Artie Tarleton Belles (18561937), an artist and socialite from Spencer, Indiana. The US government refused any financial help until Britain withdrew its forces from Egypt. "[260][261], On receiving the news, Thatcher hailed him as "a very remarkable man and a very great patriot", and said that his dislike of "selling the family silver" had never come between them. [121] On 5 August 1956 Macmillan met Churchill at Chartwell, and told him that the government's plan for simply regaining control of the canal was not enough and suggested involving Israel, recording in his diary for that day: "Surely, if we landed we must seek out the Egyptian forces; destroy them; and bring down Nasser's government. Obstacles made for desperation and excitement. [78] Macmillan wrote in his diary during the Casablanca conference: "I christened the two personalities the Emperor of the East and the Emperor of the West and indeed it was rather like a meeting of the late Roman empire". [6] Following his resignation, Macmillan lived out a long retirement as an elder statesman, being an active member of the House of Lords in his final years. [184] The failure of the Paris summit changed Macmillan's attitude towards the European Economic Community, which he started to see as a counterbalance to American power. [22][23] Promoted to lieutenant on 30 January 1915,[24] he soon transferred to the Grenadier Guards. He saw the European Communities as a continental arrangement primarily between France and Germany, and if Britain joined, France's role would diminish. He had been a very promising young man in the Tory party, but he always had his flaws. Macmillan once noted that Elizabeth "means to be a queen and not a puppet," and that she had the "heart and stomach of a man." She had already received advice to exclude the Treasury from Frank Cooper (the Permanent Under-Secretary for Defence), not least because of Macmillan's own behaviour, as Chancellor, in demanding a halt to the Suez operation. Macmillan and Lady Dorothy lived largely separate lives in private thereafter. [110], Macmillan was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer in December 1955. [135], His political standing destroyed, Eden resigned on grounds of ill health on 9 January 1957. Garry O'Connor, 'Obituary Eileen O'Casey'. [144], Besides foreign affairs, the economy was Macmillan's other prime concern. It was at his third meeting in London that Macmillan started to assume the mantle of an elder statesman, who offered Kennedy encouragement and his experience that formed a lasting friendship. When Eden resigned in 1957 following the Suez Crisis, Macmillan succeeded him as prime minister and Leader of the Conservative Party. Over lunch with Lord Swinton on 30 September he favoured stepping down, but only if Baron Hailsham could be shoehorned in as his successor. This was in the late Fifties - there was a general election coming up - and people were terrified that the scandal might damage Macmillan. Asked who could lead such a coalition, he replied: "Mr Gladstone formed his last Government when he was eighty-three. [99][100], Macmillan was Minister of Defence from October 1954, but found his authority restricted by Churchill's personal involvement. [35] However, at the end of 1918 Macmillan joined the Guards Reserve Battalion at Chelsea Barracks for "light duties". [9] Macmillan considered himself a Scot. So, in the last resort, we must use force and defy opinion, here and overseas".[119]. The love affairs and so on went on just the same as they do today - the difference was, people didn't rat on each other. She. ; and because of the Maclean-Burgess affair of 1951 the Americans believed the British government was full of Soviet spies and thus could not be trusted. Anthony Bevins, 'How Supermac Was "Hounded Out of Office" by Band of 20 Opponents'. But human sexuality is notoriously hard to regulate, and the fear of being found out does not guarantee faithful husbands, nor does fidelity necessarily make for happy wives. Betts, Lewis David. [138], From the start of his premiership, Macmillan set out to portray an image of calm and style, in contrast to his excitable predecessor. He was wounded many times during the battle of the Somme. Jul. [107] Campbell writes "there has been no more startling personal reinvention in British politics". The affair ended only with Dorothy's death in 1966. Macmillan's second meeting with Kennedy in April 1961 was friendlier and his third meeting in London in June 1961 after Kennedy had been bested by Khrushchev at a summit in Vienna even more so. [214] As expected, the Beaverbrook newspapers whose readers tended to vote Conservative offered up ferocious criticism of Macmillan's application to join the EEC, accusing him of betrayal. [38] The engagement of Captain Macmillan to the Duke's daughter Lady Dorothy was announced on 7 January 1920. [82] He was based at Caserta for the rest of the war. Lady Dorothy Evelyn Macmillan GBE (ne Cavendish; 28 July 1900 21 May 1966) was an English socialite and the third daughter of Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, and Evelyn Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire. He bore no grudge against Thorneycroft and brought him and Powell, of whom he was more wary, back into the government in 1960. He advocated cheap money and state direction of investment. He read avidly about Disraeli, but was also particularly impressed by a speech by Lloyd George at the Oxford Union Society in 1913, where he had become a member and debater. Despite the hostility of large sections of British and American opinion, who were sympathetic to the guerillas and hostile to what was seen as imperialist behaviour, he persuaded a reluctant Churchill, who visited Athens later in the month, to accept Archbishop Damaskinos as Regent on behalf of the exiled King George II. In justification Macmillan quoted Lord Macaulay in 1851: Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free until they are fit to use their freedom. Macmillan believed in the value of nuclear weapons both as a deterrent against the Soviet Union and to maintain Britain's claim to be great power, but he was also worried about the popularity of the CND. After her death he told a biographer of Macmillan: 'She was the most selfish and possessive woman I have ever known. Thorpe points out that divorce still caused muttering as late as the 1950s. Richard Gott, 'The Evolution of the Independent British Deterrent'. This was largely due to employers and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) boycotting it. He told his former love. [199], Macmillan's first government had seen the first phase of the sub-Saharan African independence movement, which accelerated under his second government. He also once commented that White's was 75% gentlemen and 25% crooks, the perfect combination for a club. A succession of prime ministers since the Second World War had been determined to persuade the United States to revive wartime co-operation in the area of nuclear weapons research. During the Kenyan Emergency, the British authorities tried to protect the Kikuyu population from the Mau Mau guerrillas (who called themselves the Land and Freedom Army) by interning the Kikuyu in camps. David Walker, 'Focus on 1957: Macmillan ordered Windscale censorship'. ', Something else has changed, according to one relative of the pair: 'People then didn't want to ruin each others' lives. [140] He was also devoted to family members: when Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire was later appointed (Minister for Colonial Affairs from 1963 to 1964 among other positions) he described his uncle's behaviour as "the greatest act of nepotism ever". [7] He had two brothers, Daniel, eight years his senior, and Arthur, four years his senior. [14], As a child, teenager and later young man, he was an admirer of the policies and leadership of a succession of Liberal Prime Ministers, starting with Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who came to power when Macmillan was only 11 years old, and then H. H. Asquith, whom he later described as having "intellectual sincerity and moral nobility", and particularly of Asquith's successor, David Lloyd George, whom he regarded as a "man of action", likely to accomplish his goals. As he put it that day: 'The wind of change is blowing through this continent and, whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact'. Within a few months of becoming President he merged the Carlton and Junior Carlton. In his delirium he imagined himself back in a Somme casualty clearing station and asked for a message to be passed to his mother, now dead. He behaved immaculately throughout her long affair, giving his name to Sarah, her daughter born in 1930, fathered by Boothby. Now there is a new kind of wicked hatred that has been brought in by different types of people. Macmillan wrote in his diary: "If Nasser 'gets away with it', we are done for. However, Sarah lived an ultimately unhappy life and died at the young age of 39 in 1970. Macmillan was given responsibility for increasing colonial production and trade, and signalled the future policy direction when in June 1942 he declared: The governing principle of the Colonial Empire should be the principle of partnership between the various elements composing it. [18][pageneeded] He served with distinction and was wounded on three occasions. Responding to a remark made by Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson about not having boots in which to go to school, Macmillan retorted: 'If Mr Wilson did not have boots to go to school that is because he was too big for them. [109] Campbell also suggests that Harold Wilson's image change during Macmillan's premiership from "boring young statistician into lovable Yorkshire comic" was made in conscious imitation of Macmillan.[72]. The American cockiness is shaken.President is under severe attack for the first timeThe atmosphere is now such that almost anything might be decided, however revolutionary". [178] Macmillan feared for his own position and later (1 August) claimed to Lloyd that Butler, who sat for a rural East Anglian seat likely to suffer from EEC agricultural protectionism, had been planning to split the party over EEC entry (there is no evidence that this was so). In the age of jet aircraft Macmillan travelled more than any previous Prime Minister, apart from Lloyd George who made many trips to conferences in 191922. However, in genuine old age he became almost blind, causing him to need sticks and a helping arm. He was a force in the negotiations leading to the signing of the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty by the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union. US President Ronald Reagan said: "The American people share in the loss of a voice of wisdom and humanity who, with eloquence and gentle wit, brought to the problems of today the experience of a long life of public service. John Vincent, "Macmillan, Harold" in Fred M. 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[191] The Thais wanted to change the voting procedure for SEATO from requiring unanimous consent to a three-quarter majority, a measure that Britain vetoed, causing the Thais to lose interest in SEATO. [214] Macmillan wrote in his diary about his decision to apply to join the EEC: "Shall we be caught between a hostile (or at least less and less friendly) America and a boastful, powerful 'Empire of Charlemagne'-now under French, but later bound to come under German control?It's a grim choice". [215][216], Macmillan's previous attempt to create an agreement at the May 1960 summit in Paris had collapsed due to the 1960 U-2 incident. [32] As a result, he refused to return to Oxford to complete his degree, saying the university would never be the same;[33] in later years he joked that he had been "sent down by the Kaiser". The radioactive cloud spread to south-east England and fallout reached mainland Europe. The revelation of the affair between John Profumo (Secretary of State for War) and an alleged call-girl, Christine Keeler, who was simultaneously sleeping with the Soviet naval attache Captain Yevgeny Ivanov made it appear that Macmillan had lost control of his government and of events in general. A young John Major attended the presentation of the budget, and attributes his political ambitions to this event. [208] In January 1963 Sukarno started a policy of konfrontasi ("confrontation") with Britain. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. Not any longer. [50] Eileen O'Casey, ne Reynolds (19001995), the actress wife of Irish dramatist Sen O'Casey, was another female friend, Macmillan publishing her husband's plays. 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