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The proposal was not everything the British wanted, but it was the first significant break in the impasse and it gave Wilson just enough hope to ask Smith to meet him secretly in Gibraltar. "I would not have contemplated a visit today unless I had reason enough to think we are within hailing distance of a solution," Wilson told Parliament, but he warned: "There is still a considerable gap to bridge." At week's end, the Tiger docked and the two Prime Ministers left for their capitals to announce the results of their unusual parley.