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...Editor Mike Demarest, 37, has a closer than usual connection with his subject. Demarest grew up in England, and four years after joining TIME'S staff in 1954, returned to London as a correspondent for us for three years. Recently he flew over to London to watch Ted Heath perform in the crucial debate in the House of Commons ("most impressive"), to have dinner with him, and to get his own impressions of how prominent Britons-journalists, civil servants and businessmen-felt about their country's application to join the Common Market...
Unite or Perish. Britain's passage to Europe began in earnest on a grey October day in Paris last year. Behind the closed doors of a high-ceilinged conference room in the Quai d'Orsay, Britain's Lord Privy Seal, Edward Richard George Heath, formally notified ministers of the six Common Market nations that his government had reached "a great decision, a turning point in our history." In a deep, resonant voice, Heath declared: "We desire to become full, wholehearted and active members of the European Community in its widest sense, and to go forward with...
...invaders. By temperament and experience, Britain should be uniquely capable of making the successful passage from Commonwealth to Common Market-and in so doing, bring about that mingling of the Anglo-Saxon and the Latin spirit that Historian André Siegfried saw as the genius of Europe. As Edward Heath said to the House of Commons last month, "What we are dealing with is not tariffs or trade. We are dealing with fundamental human values. They affect the future of millions of people here, in Europe, in the Commonwealth and right across the world. That is what gives...
...immigrants congregate in London and in the industrial Midlands, and get work as unskilled laborers, garbage men, bus conductors and hospital orderlies. They are jammed in ramshackle Harlems like London's Notting Hill and Birmingham's Balsall Heath, and are frequently victimized by their own countrymen who arrived earlier. Pakistan's High Commissioner in Britain complained recently that London taxi drivers were "kidnaping" Pakistani newcomers at the airport and selling them into "slavery" to other established Pakistanis who paid the taxi fares...
...Commons itself, restraint was the keyword. Stating the government's case was the Tories' chief Market negotiator. Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath. In a factual, detailed 10-minute speech, Ted Heath argued cogently that Britain had no intention of joining the Market at any price, but explained why he was willing to pay a fairly high price. The British people, said Heath, are living "in a period of intense change, both politically and economically. Are we to be excluded from these developments? There are some who say that if we take part in them, we shall...