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...miles of Channel water has given Britain a proud aloofness from the European Continent. As recently as last month, Punch could lampoon a "European" as "one who believes Britain to be part of Europe." But last week, with diffident step, Britain was moving toward what Prime Minister Macmillan has frankly admitted "will be one of the gravest decisions Britain has ever taken." The question: to join, or not to join, the six nations of the Continent's flourishing Common Market (France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg) in economic-and perhaps, ultimately, political-union...
Sovereign Choice. Parliament's Tory and Labor backbenchers last week held a three-hour debate on Common Market entry. (Macmillan and Labor's Hugh Gaitskell were conspicuously absent to ensure that the issue did not come to a premature vote.) Though Britain's immediate problems in entering the Common Market are economic-protecting her farmers, safeguarding Commonwealth trade-the ultimate question involved is national sovereignty and prestige. This issue cuts straight across party lines...
...wider European market, convinced that since Britain produces more per acre and per man than any nation in Europe, they will more than hold their own. With the single exception of Lord Beaverbrook's Express, the British press is enthusiastically pro-Common Market, and most editorialists reproach Macmillan for his hesitancy...
...beats hell out of sitting around the office," said Bill Hearst as he and his pals prowled the global beat, collecting heads of state as other hunters collect heads. In the six years since then, the list has grown: Churchill twice ("He and Pop were very good friends"), Macmillan, Nehru, Japan's Hirohito and China's Chiang Kaishek, Israel's Ben-Gurion and the United Arab Republic's Nasser ("Did Nasser and Ben-Gurion at the same time"). Khrushchev has been such a regular subject for interviews that the Soviet Premier now regards Hearst...
...have some very clear ideas," says Home. "The main one is security," which Britain can achieve, he believes, only "by making and keeping friends"-notably the U.S. Where Macmillan likes to emphasize the possibilities of negotiating with the Russians, Home warns that Communism is "an international and militant crusade. As long as Communism deals in subversion, aggression and domination, the relations between East and West, must be considered principally in the context of power." It is just such a cold assessment of power that led Home to favor backing down on Laos-he calculates that a war there would...