Europe: Britain to Market

For 900 years the accident of 20 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...

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