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Three weeks ago, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dispatched a trio of ministers to the far corners of the Common wealth. Their mission was to argue that what is good for Britain is good for the Commonwealth. Last week the three headed home in a minor state of shock...
...table, the Canadians demanded not only assurances of protection for their exports to Britain ( which constitute only 20% of their sales abroad), but also that Britain would call a Commonwealth Prime Ministers' meeting before opening talks with the Six. Sandys had no authority to agree to either (and Macmillan, who will not even let the Commons debate the Common Market issue, has no intention of assembling the whole Commonwealth to clamor against him). Though the schedule called for five days of talks, the angry Canadians stalked out on the second day and issued a terse communiqué: "The Canadian...
...over Berlin and the complex problem of membership in Europe's Common Market (TIME, July 7). Even his sharpest critics concede that Eden has unsurpassed firsthand knowledge of foreign policy over three decades. Eden's plans for German reunification still influence Foreign Office policymakers, and Macmillan occasionally drops in on Eden at his country home to seek his views. The two do not always agree-last month, in his first major speech since his retirement, Eden made plain that he had serious reservations about the government's approach to the Common Market...
...British public argued, the government cautiously shifted into low gear. Commonwealth Relations Minister Duncan Sandys set off for successive visits to New Zealand, Australia and Canada to explain Macmillan's Common Market thinking-and listen to objections and suggestions for riders to be attached to Britain's conditions of entry. Meeting in London last week, the Outer Seven nervously agreed to stick together in wooing the Six to prevent anyone's jumping the gun-but also agreed that no single nation could veto the marriage if the terms suited everybody else...
...week's end Macmillan in an informal speech at Bowood, Wiltshire, revealed some of his own thinking. "I cannot tell you what we shall do; but I can tell you some of the things we shall not do," he said. "The government is not going to let down the British farmer." Neither would it let down the Commonwealth economically, though "on the political side I've no doubt that the Commonwealth would be actually strengthened if we could reach a fair agreement with Europe." Whatever the problems, Macmillan made plain his own predilection...