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Committed by its charter, the Treaty of Rome, to enduring and "ever closer union," the Common Market may become a United States of Europe in the 1970s, with general elections, as British Liberal Leader Jo Grimond predicts, "reaching from the Orkney Islands to Sicily...
...Senator Paul Douglas, President Adolf Scharf of Austria, Walter P. Reuther, Senator Joseph Clark, Mayor Willy Brandt, James Carey, David Dubinsky, Roy Wilkins, Chester Bowles, Kenya Political Leader Tom Mboya, Senator Wayne Morse, Governor Hughes of New Jersey, Robert C. Weaver, Senator Maurine Neuberger, Governor Nelson of Wisconsin, Joseph Grimond, leader of the British Liberal Party...
...issues of class and of the Common Market will both affect the electorate profoundly, but of all the party leaders, Mr. Gaitskell alone seems to be aware of it. Mr. Macmillan retreats inscrutably into Downing Street; Jo Grimond of the Liberals congratulates himself on the results of by-elections, tears down the other parties, and constructs a preposterous domestic platform. "Nice people, the British," Mr. Gaitskell imagined other nations saying shortly, "easy-going, kindly, tolerant; they have had a glorious past. The only trouble is their stagnation--somehow they have lost out, lost their dynamic." His is a very palpable...
Another election imponderable as the race tightened was the weight of the third-party vote. "Get out and get in," cried Liberal Party Leader Jo Grimond to the candidates his party dispatched to fight in some 200 (out of 630) constituencies. The Liberals slugged hardest at the Tories' Suez failure and at "police state" colonial methods in Kenya and Nyasaland; they were also the only party campaigning for British membership in the European Common Market. Grimond & Co. did not expect to add more than half a dozen parliamentary seats to their present six, could only hope to exert real...
...need for us to play a leading and independent part. We cannot play this role as the 49th State. A spoonful-and it should not be more than a spoonful-of isolationism should also be permitted to us." The new leader of the Liberal Party, J. Joseph Grimond, wondered aloud whether Britain would not do better to reduce the Commonwealth to the "white Dominions"-Canada, Australia, New Zealand-and foresaw the day when Britain's economy might "look to Western Europe to give us added strength and wider margins. European unity would then become the major British interest...