"E27002" wrote in message
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IMHO Macmillan is NOT a hero.


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Macmillan served with distinction as a captain in the Grenadier Guards
during the war, [WW1] and was wounded on three occasions. During the
Battle of the Somme, he spent an entire day wounded and lying in a slit
trench with a bullet in his pelvis, reading the classical Greek
playwright Aeschylus in his original language.[13

Publishing]
On his return to London in 1920 he joined the family firm Macmillan
Publishers as a junior partner, remaining with the company until his
appointment to ministerial office in 1940.

{Macmillan was responsible for publishing and championing the work of
the Irish playwright Sean O'Casey)

Housing Minister (1951-1954)
With the Conservative victory in 1951 Macmillan became Minister of Housing
under Churchill, who entrusted Macmillan with fulfilling the latter's conference
promise to build 300,000 houses per year. 'It is a gamble-it will make or mar
your political career,' Churchill said, 'but every humble home will bless your
name if you succeed.'[32] Macmillan achieved the target a year ahead of schedule.[33]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Macmillan

To say nothing of the strain of having to maintain a stiff upper lip for years,
on end, for the sake of the family, while being cockolded by Robert Boothby.
(i.e Boothby was shagging his missus)

I wonder if any of those people moving into any of those 300,000 new houses will have
bemoaned the lack of Doric arhes at the front ?

Oh sorry, there's clearly no point in asking you is there ? Your knowledge of Harold
McMillan is probably based on a telly programme you vaguely remember from last
year. Andrew Marr perhaps ?


michael adams

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