WHAT TO DO AT A SUMMIT

It seems former British prime minister, Harold MacMillan, slept. Here’s part of the letter he wrote to the Queen, about a major summit meeting with French, German and American leaders in 1959. It has just been released for public consumption:

After lunch, which was extremely good, Dr Adenauer delivered for nearly an hour a lecture on the dangers of communism and the best way to deal with it in the schools, in the factories and in the homes. I regret to inform Your Majesty that I fell asleep during the latter part of this oration.

A classic. Nice assessment of Eisenhower too.