21 SEPTEMBER 1962, Page 8

Let 'Em Try !

At a Tory Party meeting, not long ago, after some explanation by an expert of the latest state of play in the Common Market negotiations, a stout patriot leapt to his feet. 'These damned foreigners! People like de Gaulle trying to keep us out! Mind you, to begin with I was never much in favour of Britain going in. but if these

people want to keep us out, then damned well all for it.' I'm sure that the much-publicised objections of some of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers last week are producing the same kind of conversion in the same sort of doubter.

STARRUCK