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...during the last 25 years. Now it's the turn of the youth of Europe." On the cliffs of Dover, the European Movement, a pro-Market pressure group, built a bonfire to signal France that Britain was rejoining Europe. It was lit by former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, and burned so fiercely that nearby grass was set afire and firemen had to be called...
...vote was a considerable personal triumph for Prime Minister Edward Heath, the most European of Britain's leaders since Winston Churchill. As Lord Privy Seal in Macmillan's Cabinet, he was in charge of negotiations for entry between 1961 and 1963, when the effort was ended by the first of De Gaulle's two vetoes. As Heath put it, winding up last week's debate: "I do not think any Prime Minister has stood in this box in time of peace and asked the House to take a positive decision of such importance...
...NAME ABOVE THE TITLE by Frank Capra. 513 pages. Macmillan...
...suspicion that the Common Market is Catholic and capitalist and would corrupt Protestant and socialist Britain. In a recent issue of the New Statesman, British Journalist Paul Johnson divided Britons into insularists (King Arthur, Queen Elizabeth I, Cromwell, Anthony Eden) and Continentalists (Thomas a Becket. Charles I, Harold Macmillan). "Britain has always chosen the adventure of sovereignty in preference to the presumed security of a Continental system," wrote Johnson. "And history shows that in the end she has always chosen rightly...
...Macmillan Company...