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...annual cost of $630 million proved too great, however, and in 1966 Harold Wilson's Labor government announced that Britain would withdraw from east of Suez. Now that the Malaysian area has been quietly stabilized, Britain will station there only what the current Conservative government of Edward Heath describes as a "modest insurance premium"-one infantry battalion and a few miscellaneous units in a symbolic ANZUK force of 7,000 men, mainly from Australia and New Zealand. In case of crisis, the five nations will "consult" on what...
...vote was a considerable personal triumph for Prime Minister Edward Heath, the most European of Britain's leaders since Winston Churchill. As Lord Privy Seal in Macmillan's Cabinet, he was in charge of negotiations for entry between 1961 and 1963, when the effort was ended by the first of De Gaulle's two vetoes. As Heath put it, winding up last week's debate: "I do not think any Prime Minister has stood in this box in time of peace and asked the House to take a positive decision of such importance...
Trying Time. The depth of the opposition presages a trying time for Heath before Britain actually becomes a member of the Common Market. Over the next 14 months, his government must push through the Commons detailed enabling legislation bringing Britain's laws into line with those of the Community. Wilson has vowed to fight that legislation "clause by clause and line by line," and Heath has no guarantee that the Labor members who deserted their party to support the principle of joining Europe will do so again on the particulars. In any major vote of confidence, however, the Prime...
...pending Britain's entry. Shortly before the Commons vote, Willy Brandt said, "The success of the Western Europeans' efforts to assert their political weight more forcefully in the world depends to a large degree on the full cooperation of the British." That the Common Market will have. Heath wants to use the Community for developing a distinctly European foreign policy and for defense consultation as well. Though there can be no assurance that the Ten will follow through to actual political unity, Britain's entry provides a considerable impetus toward that goal. As EEC officials...
...British public is growing increasingly restive over the murder of so many British soldiers and police in Northern Ireland. Nonetheless, the Sunday Times report produced a storm of protest, and Prime Minister Edward Heath announced that the government would launch an inquiry into the Holywood affair...