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...hardly a triumph of personal leadership on either side. Macmillan had been pushed by a Britain ready to take the cross-Channel plunge long before its shivering Prime Minister even stuck a toe in the water...
Despite Britain's reluctance, the dream of union has survived. And last week Britain finally succumbed to its lure. In a House of Commons so packed that even the chamber gangways were stuffed with squatting M.P.s, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan waited for a tense, expectant hush. Then he announced that Great Britain had finally decided to apply to join the Common Market, the three-year-old and amazingly successful economic union of France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands...
...long face flushed with emotion, Macmillan spelled out his message in slow, measured tones. The Common Market, he said, was helping "to promote unity and stability in Europe, which is so essential a factor in the struggle for freedom and progress. I believe it is both our duty and interest to contribute toward that strength by securing the closest possible unity within Europe...
National Disaster. Backbench Tories hooted with cries of "Shame!" Conservative M.P. Anthony Fell.* a former New Zealand sheep farmer, leaped to his feet, rudely accused Macmillan of making "a shocking statement, full of political doubletalk." When Macmillan rose magisterially to protest, Fell yelled, "No! I can be told to sit down by Mr. Speaker, but I cannot be told to sit down by the Prime Minister," went on to call Macmillan a "national disaster" and urge him to resign...
...victory. France's Jean Monnet, 72, who conceived the idea of a Common Market and is now head of the informal Action Committee of the United States of Europe,* has lobbied constantly and quietly in Britain ever since the Common Market began, encouraging Britain to join. Monnet praised Macmillan's decision as "an act of political courage.''optimistically expressed the hppe that Britain might be in by the end of the year (most observers expect the negotiations will take nearly a year). Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, 62, who presided over the drafting...