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...across to Americans what the British have already learned to their considerable surprise: in less than a year on the job. Home has emerged as the strongest British Foreign Secretary in years, a man who seems more realistic about the Communist menace than his boss and old friend, Harold Macmillan...
Front Seat. When Macmillan elevated Home from Commonwealth Relations to the Foreign Office last July, the Laborite Daily Mirror called it "the most reckless political appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse a consul." Home admitted wistfully that "one would have to have the hide of a rhinoceros not to be affected by the criticism." But he defended his apprenticeship for the job. "After all, for five years it was my job to explain foreign policy to the Commonwealth." Officials used to his rather dour predecessor, Selwyn Lloyd, were charmed by Home's wit and informality...
...foundations from under Britain's own competing economic club, the Outer Seven free-trade area; already the Danes and Norwegians of the Outer Seven were eying the Common Market with envy, and the Swedes were readying a deal with Europe's Six for the day when Macmillan finally decides to jump. And there was still the problem of how to open Britain's markets to Europe without destroying the vast empire preference system that is Britain's main link with the Common wealth...
...Macmillan's task was made no easier by the way things were going on the Continent last week. France, anxious to find markets for its burgeoning farm surpluses, abruptly demanded a common agricultural price and marketing system that would rule throughout the Common Market. To back their demand, the French threatened to veto any further industrial tariff reduction in the Common Market unless an agricultural agreement was reached...
ESSAYS AND INTRODUCTIONS (530 pp.) -William Butler Yeats-Macmillan...