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...groundwork for the Heath-Pompidou sessions had been laid the week before in Brussels. During an all-night meeting, the Foreign Ministers of the Six and British Chief Negotiator Geoffrey Rippon reached working arrangements on three major points concerning British entry. They were preferential treatment for Commonwealth sugar-producing countries, British adjustments to the EEC's higher-priced agricultural produce, and a formula for British contributions to the EEC's central budget. A number of other developments, however, helped ensure a hospitable climate for last week's summit meeting. One was West Germany's recent unilateral...
Before leaving for Paris, Heath told a conference of conservative women in London's Westminster Hall: "We face a momentous test of will." The result of that test, he went on, would answer the question: "Do we have the wisdom to achieve by construction and cooperation what Napoleon and Hitler failed to achieve by destruction and conquest...
...upbeat that on the first day of the meeting, French national radio began its broadcasts with a salute that must have rattled coffee cups from Calais to Cannes: "Good morning," instead of the customary "Bonjour." The newspaper France-Soir ran a headline that was almost English: POMPIDOU-HEATH SMILING DAY. Heath, similarly, spoke in a language that was almost French when he arrived at Orly. London's Evening Standard slipped in a small tribute with the headline TED ET GEORGES: SUNSHINE FINALE. Meanwhile, at a blacktie dinner at the Elysée the first night, Pompidou toasted the Queen...
...told, Heath and Pompidou spent twelve hours in face-to-face talks attended only by translators (the two leaders were also together for two luncheons and one dinner). They ranged over the entire spectrum of Common Market issues. Meeting mostly in the gold-and-tapestried Salon Doré, occasionally strolling in the Elysée's tree shaded back garden, they dealt with two unresolved questions: preferential treatment for New Zealand, to which Britain has highly emotional ties; and the role of sterling. On both issues, Heath was heartened by Pompidou's reasonableness. The two men concurred that...
...return, Pompidou won certain assurances from Heath. One was that Britain would place the Market's economic interests ahead of London's commitments elsewhere. Heath also advised Pompidou that Britain would ultimately put the EEC political considerations ahead of its loose ties to the Commonwealth and its even looser ties to the U.S. That helped convince Pompidou that the British have become sufficiently European-minded...