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Overnight Case. Brussels, the scene of Britain's dashed hopes last week, is a dour, neon-lit old maid of a city. On Monday, the cobbled streets were slimy with black slush and blanketed with chilling fog as Britain's chief negotiator. Edward Heath, arrived with his aides. Minister for Commonwealth Affairs Duncan Sandys and Agriculture Minister Christopher Soames. The French, with a fine sense of economy, traveled light; only Luxembourg's four-man delegation was smaller. French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville brought only an overnight case, for he knew that he would...
...warned of the consequences of a rupture, but France's Couve de Murville was adamant. Walter Hallstein. chairman of the Common Market Commission, tried to change the wording of the proposal to make it more acceptable to the French. He failed. There was nothing to do but summon Heath to hear the final verdict. Each head of delegation read a prepared statement. Belgium's Spaak called the rupture "a monstrous thing.'' Dutch Foreign Minister Joseph Luns was equally bitter, while Germany's Schroder pointedly told the French that "the Bundestag had only ratified the Treaty...
...free nation could seek to dominate other free nations, adding: "Nor can any country in these days stand entirely on its own. Alliances are essential to security." Britain would continue the patient struggle to win a place in Europe, said Harold Macmillan. Its Common Market negotiator Edward Heath was already back in Brussels, ready to take his seat at the negotiating table...
...press conference in Paris, the Common Market's presiding minister, Belgium's Henri Fayat, gracefully welcomed the British delegation to the conference room in the new aluminum and concrete Foreign Ministry building on the Quatre Bras.* With equal good will, Britain's Chief Delegate Edward Heath replied, "I think the time has come for a true reconciliation...
Seeking Support. In preparation for the Brussels meeting, Ted Heath went to Chequers, Macmillan's ministerial estate, spent hours urging his views on West Germany's visiting Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder, a considerable sympathizer. Then Heath crossed to the Continent to line up additional support for Britain's position. He talked with Belgium's Deputy Foreign Minister Henri Fayat, who wants Britain in the Common Market, and with France's Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville, who faithfully echoed De Gaulle's reluctance to lower the bars for Britain. Macmillan himself will...