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...Blimping Blimps. British entry is now more certain than ever, but a few battles remain to be fought. Whitehall mimeograph machines were still clanking out the communique when Ted Heath plunged into a two-week round of conferences with European ministers before formal negotiations with the Six reopen next month. However, the government's biggest battle may not take place in Brussels, but in Britain itself. Opinion polls have shown that opposition to Macmillan's "grand design" is rising steadily at home. The Commonwealth leaders' warnings reinforced an improbable but disturbing alliance between the Tory Party...
Charm in the Evening. As the critical speeches sputtered on, the once unflappable Mac began a desperate buttonholing campaign to moderate the views of Commonwealth officials and avert a flatly hostile final communiqué. Recruiting Commonwealth Relations Minister Duncan Sandys and Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath to help with the lobbying, Macmillan exerted all his considerable charm at small meetings, between sessions, at the evening receptions, even at Queen Elizabeth's banquet for the Commonwealth leaders in Buckingham Palace...
When Johnson was shown a Scottish forest, he remarked that he would have called it a heath. As for Scottish scenery: "The noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to London." But he could poke fun at himself as well; asked if he would not start if he saw a ghost, he answered, "I hope not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost." But if the tour aroused Johnson's antic side, it aroused his antiquarian side even more. On the islands - Raasay and Skye and Mull - there were still feudal...
...story was probably apocryphal, but the speed with which it made the rounds of Whitehall last week revealed the deep British exasperation at France's blocking tactics in Brussels. Just back from the talks, Britain's chief Market negotiator, Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, could scarcely conceal his irritation with France over the stalemate on terms of Britain's Common Market membership...
...White Paper, Heath said that there was "a great deal of progress," which would serve as a basis for discussion when ministerial talks resume next October. But he argued that Britain's hopes for a tentative agreement this summer were snagged by France's last-minute, 3 a.m. insertion of an extraneous matter of agricultural prices in the closing Brussels session. Paris quickly contested the British version of the breakdown of the talks, said that discussions had actually foundered when Heath himself decided to "reserve his position" on the matter of further British concessions on safeguards for Commonwealth...