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...said yes to Europe. Even in Northern Ireland, where the Rev. Ian Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church had warned that "a vote for the Common Market is a vote for ecumenism, Rome, dictatorship and anti-Christ," the pro-EEC cause won by a 52.1% majority. For Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who had staked his political future on the referendum, the vote was a resounding personal triumph. Indeed, London's pro-Labor Daily Mirror suggested that Wilson may now become "the most powerful peacetime Prime Minister of the century...
...fancy talk. In Europe, he had his approach down pat. Look, he said to the man seated across from him, here is how I see the problems. When Ford did not understand, he asked questions. When he was obviously unknowing, he dragged in his aides. With Britain's Harold Wilson, Ford shared economic-recession talk. Then the President listened carefully when Chancellor Schmidt, who is almost an ex-officio member of Ford's Council of Economic Advisers, talked economics. Schmidt loved it. All of Europe's leaders, apparently, were touched by Ford's warmth and decency...
Nearly all industrial nations, meanwhile, have pledged to re-examine the entire raw materials issue at a series of international meetings this year, including a special U.N. session in September. British Prime Minister Harold Wilson advocates agreements to stabilize the prices of no fewer than eleven commodities, presumably figuring that such pacts would add less to Britain's import bills over the long run than further uncontrolled price swings...
...reported an amazingly consistent 2 to 1 majority in favor of continued membership. The latest Gallup poll showed 61% intending to vote yes, 29% no and only 10% undecided. Most political analysts see the turnabout as a sign that many formerly skeptical Britons are now prepared to believe that "Harold knows best." The pro-Europe forces also profited from world market fluctuations that at least temporarily have made food prices lower within the EEC than outside...
Among the prominent past and present residents of 10 Downing Street who publicly resigned Cabinet posts on issues of policy are Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Wilson...