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...lining, Britain-baiting Kwame Nkrumah is not likely to pull out of the British Commonwealth as long as Ghana is in its present, near-disastrous financial trouble and can still benefit from the Commonwealth's preferential tariffs...
...coming-out party in London's smart Quaglino's restaurant, Celia Sandys, 17, daughter of Britain's Commonwealth Relations Minister Duncan Sandys and granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill, was honored by a visit from the Former Naval Person himself, now 86. "I shall be staying only a half hour, my dear," said Sir Winston, who had just got over a slight cold. But as he sipped champagne and surveyed the 200 dancers in the ballroom, Sir Winston let his first half hour slip by, then another and most of a third. At 12:20 a.m. he finally...
...chance to try state Socialism. Since the E.E.C. has decided to abandon its founders' hope for a tight European federation, niether protest is really valid, but there is a strange legitimacy to more moderate British desires. Mr. Macmillan wants, ideally, a loose federation with both Europe and the Commonwealth, for he understandably cannot bear to let the Commonwealth go. It is more than a symbol of past grandeur, it may become a cultural tie between East and West, and Britain more than ever fancies its role as international mediator...
...although African nations will have the opportunity to associate themselves with the new European complex, links to the older nations of the Commonwealth may have to be worn away. The nations most hostile to Europe will be bitter about the economic break, and they show no signs of wanting to lessen their bitterness by forming so much as a joint customs union among themselves...
...some of these things are done, an atmosphere of some bounce and energy may creep into the offensively superior blandness of Westminster, and if the Common Market alone can bring Britain to understand its post-war role more clearly, full membership will be worth some Commonwealth hostility...