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...political capacity, Bonham-Carter speaks confidently of the future of the Liberal Party, reduced to six seats in each of the last two Parliaments, but recepient of more than 2,000,000 votes in the last election...
...Liberals have dwindled to relative insignificance in Britain's two-party post-WWI world, Bonham-Carter maintains, nevertheless, that many of their policies, particularly those concerning the Common Market and Disarmament, have been absorbed by the dominant Conservative and Labour Parties...
...years the Liberal Party has been trying to push Great Britain into the European Economic Community. The fact that the MacMillan government is now leading Great Britain into the Common Market will, according to Bonham-Carter, ensure another Conservative Election as soon as England is accepted...
Indeed, the prospect of Britain's entrance into the Common Market excites Bonham-Carter considerably. "A nation-state such as we have in modern Europe is not useful in dealing with almost any contemporary problem," he declares. "The destruction of national sovereignty, should the Common Market eventually bring that to pass, would in itself be a good thing...
...Bonham-Carter sees the strength of the EEC--and the reason it can be acceptable to many varied types of government--in the fact that the Market has no set program for development; it is equally amenable, he says, to visionaries who see in it a future "United States of Europe" and to General De Gaulle who shudders at this thought...