In the nine months since Britain applied for membership in the European Common Market, few diplomats on either side have seriously considered that the British might be kept out. Last week, as a British team led by Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath got down to bare-knuckled bargaining in Brussels, there was a real possibility that Europe may yet roll back the welcome mat.
Despite Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's brave declaration in Toronto this month that the Common Market would have to "make it easy'' for Britain to join, European leaders showed that they...
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