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The Official History of Britain and the European Community, Vol. II - From Rejection to Referendum, 1963-1975 (Paperback)
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The Official History of Britain and the European Community, Vol. II - From Rejection to Referendum, 1963-1975 (Paperback)
Series: Government Official History Series
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This is the second volume in The Official History of Britain and
the European Community, and describes the events from 1963 up until
the British referendum on the Common Market in 1975. In 1963,
General de Gaulle dashed Prime Minister Macmillan's hopes of taking
Britain into the European Community (the Common Market). When
Labour Prime Minister Harold Wilson tried again, de Gaulle again
said 'no'. Six years later, Prime Minister Edward Heath took
Britain into the EEC. But by then the country was split and Harold
Wilson, to keep the Labour Party from voting to leave, undertook to
renegotiate Britain's membership. When Labour won the 1974 election
that renegotiation culminated in the first nationwide referendum
ever held in the United Kingdom. The British people voted by two to
one to stay in the European Community, but British membership has
been controversial ever since. This is the story of why three very
different Prime Ministers all concluded that, in the British
national interest, there was no viable alternative to joining the
Common Market. In the words and documents of the time (those of
politicians, diplomats and journalists from Britain, France and
Germany) it relives the frustrations, successes and humiliations of
British politicians as they wrestled with the most important issue
of their generation. It shows, with the authority of the Government
papers of the day, where and why today's European controversy
started and why yesterday's challenges, and the way they were
confronted, hold valid lessons for our time. This book will be of
much interest to students of British political history, European
Union politics, Diplomatic History and International Relations in
general.
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