Book Chapter

I HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM: CHAPTER 2. THE SECOND QUARTER

1957

Overview

The White Paper on Defence (pg. 18-20). nuclear tests (pg. 20). the Budget (pg. 20-22). the Suez Canal re-opened (pg. 22-23). shipbuilding and engineering disputes' settlement (pg. 23). entertainment tax (pg. 23-24). Lord Attlee on the art of being Prime Minister (pg. 24-25). Admiral North's case (pg. 25). by-elections (pg. 25-26). Shops Bill and Rent Act (pg. 26-27). Premium bonds draw (pg. 27). telephone tapping (pg. 27-28). smoking and lung cancer (pg. 28). external relations: Cyprus (pg. 28-29). China trade (pg. 29). dollar travel allowances (pg. 29). letter to Mr Bulganin (pg. 29). Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference (pg. 29-30). the royal visits to France and Denmark (pg. 30-31). the Adams case (pg. 31-32). miscellaneous: the Third Programme (pg. 32). the pensions problem (pg. 32-33). possible newspaper merger (pg. 33). the Channel Tunnel Company (pg. 33). the automatic typist (pg. 33-34). ice cream (pg. 34). the weather (pg. 34).

• Subject: Adams, Dr John Bodkin / Amalgamated Engineering Union / Attlee, Earl / Boussac, Marcel (France) / Butler, Rt Hon. R. A., M.P. (U.K.) / Cadbury, L. J / Ceylon / Channel Tunnel, The / China / Chou EN-LAI (China) / Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference / Coty, President, of France / Denmark / Devlin, Mr Justice / Dimes, Albert / Donnelly, D., M.P / Eccles, Rt Hon. Sir David, M.P / Economist, The / Edinburgh, H.R.H. Prince Philip, Duke of / Eliot, T. S / Elizabeth II, H.M. Queen / Gaitskell, Rt Hon. Hugh, M.P. (U.K.) / Griffiths, Rt Hon. James, M.P / Hill, Billy / Jones, Rt Hon. Aubrey, M.P / Lawrence, Geoffrey, Q.C / Lipton, Marcus, M.P / Lloyd, Rt Hon Selwyn, M.P / Macmillan, RT HON. Harold, M.P / Makarios, Archbishop, President of Cyprus / Mallalieu, J. P. W., M.P / Marrinan, Patrick / Morrell, Mrs / Nkrumah, Dr Kwama (Ghana) / Russell, Bertrand / Sandys, Rt Hon. Duncan, M.P / Stevenson, Melford, Q.C / Summerskill, Dr. Edith, M.P / Tenby, Lord / Thorneycroft, Rt. Hon. Peter, M.P / Times, The / Tucker, Lord / United Kingdom (UK) / United States of America (USA) / Walker, Gordon, M.P / Wilson, Rt Hon. Harold, MP (UK)