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...polls. Committed though he was to British entry into the Common Market, his leadership seemed to be faltering. There were alarmed predictions that rising antiMarket sentiment would split the party. In this atmosphere of fretful uncertainty, the Tories met for their annual party conference in the Welsh resort of Llandudno -and ringingly endorsed both the Common Market and Harold Macmillan...
Cries of "Rubbish." In the week be fore the conference. 20 million copies of Macmillan's pamphlet, stating why Britain must join Europe, were circulated to every corner of the United Kingdom. At Llandudno young party workers distributed among the delegates hundreds of five-inch lapel badges that bore only one word: "Yes."' Belatedly. anti-Marketeers copied the ploy, but their "No" buttons were overwhelmingly outnumbered. To provide the facts and figures about the Market, Britain's chief negotiator, Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, interrupted meetings with the Six in Brussels and flew to Wales. Exhibiting...
From the platoons of perambulators marshaled on Llandudno's pier last week, it looked as if a baby contest were in full swing. In fact, the prams' owners were visiting the wind-whipped Welsh resort for the Liberal Party's annual conference, its biggest and most closely watched gathering since the war. Though it has been fashionable in Britain to dismiss the Liberals themselves as political babes-in-arms, last week's conference showed that the resurgent party not only appeals powerfully to the young-hence the youthful parents with their prams-but that...
...experts may well be wrong. The confident, well-disciplined party at Llandudno last week suggested that it could at least hold the balance of power in an electorate that is increasingly bored with the Tories and mistrustful of the Socialists. As for the "party of protest" label, Grimond retorts: "What's wrong with that for a start...
...since its last concourse of Welsh hymn singers had Llandudno resounded to such a chorus of glad cries as greeted Sir Anthony's pledge, largely rhetorical though it was. And then the Tories went home, their problems still unsettled but their discomfiture greatly eased...