16 JUNE 1967, Page 4

The Common Market game

On Monday Mr Wilson trai els to Paris to meet General de Gaulle and discuss the fate of Britain's application to join the Common Market. At this critical hour, as failure and frustration stare him in the face, the *Spectator' offers, on pages 712 and 713 of this issue, a unique diagrammatic work- ing model of the entire Common Market negotiations. Only by mastering this com- plex game of Common Market snakes and ladders (which bears the same relation to the real thing as the strategist? war games do to war) can genuine Europeanism be achieved.