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Article: Harold Macmillan: vol. 1, 1894-1956.
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- National Review
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- April 21, 1989
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T0 JUDGE BY outward appearances, Harold Macmillan was a Tory grandee direct from central casting. His patrician looks, his languid Edwardian manners, his cynical wit, and his famous "unflappability"-he calmly read Aeschylus while wounded and under fire in no man's land in the 1914-18 war and, forty years later, dismissed the resignation of his entire Treasury team as "a little local difficulty"-all combined to make him seem a figure of supreme self-confidence and of no great relevance to the postwar world of the welfare state. The American public got a glimpse of this polished performer when, responding to Khrushchev banging his shoe at the UN, he delivered the adroit ...
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