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Despite recent polls showing that Britons are 66% against even applying for membership, largely because food prices might rise by as much as 26%, Prime Minister Edward Heath's Conservative government is deeply committed to "joining Europe," and Tory leaders are convinced that they will carry the public with them once an actual entry agreement has been worked out. Also convinced is Jean Monnet. The Common Market's architect told TIME Correspondent William Rademaekers: "Two fundamental things have happened. First, England will join the Common Market. Make no mistake about it; they will come in. Secondly, we will have...
Alien Provisions. Whether the E.T.U.'s capitulation proves to be a lasting victory for Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath depends on whether or not the Court of Inquiry rules in favor of the Electricity Council, which had offered the workers only $4.80 more a week. Nonetheless, Heath's success in preserving his hard line has for the moment given pause to imminent inflationary wage claims by other nationalized public workers, including employees of Britain's railway, post office and waterworks. It has also increased his personal popularity. A Gallup poll taken during the E.T.U. slowdown indicated that...
...Heath's image as a tough-minded inflation fighter was also improved last week when Parliament approved in principle his government's Industrial Relations Bill. The bill would make labor contracts legally binding, with damage payments levied against unions that violate its terms. It would also introduce secret strike ballots and 60-day cooling-off periods for proposed strikes that threaten national health, safety or the economy...
After overseeing approval of his labor measure, Heath flew to Canada for a meeting with Prime Minister Trudeau, followed by a two-day visit with President Nixon. In Washington, Heath and Nixon discussed foreign policy and economic problems. Heath stressed that Britain's role in Europe, through its proposed entry into the Common Market, could only benefit what he called the "natural relationship" between the U.S. and Britain, as well as "the Atlantic Alliance and the whole Free World." He indicated concern with Congress's inclination toward protectionist trade policies that could cut by 20% Britain...
...amicable talks apparently ended a period of relations between Washington and London that Heath himself had described as being bogged down with "rusted machinery." All in all, the Prime Minister seemed to have successfully oiled machinery on both sides of the Atlantic...