Jolly good show
A young member of Parliament went to Grenoble to speak on Britain's behalf, advo- cating entry. He did so in French. He was surprised, and shocked, to receive shortly afterwards a letter from the Foreign Office, thanking him warmly for his services to 'the cause'. It has become a bit of a joke, and a bit of a scandal, in Whitehall, the way the Foreign Office regards the-Common Market application as 'the cause' (and its cause, too). The Treasury is not amused. It dislikes the state-within-a-state pretensions of the Foreign Office, is far from happy with the way in which the Foreign Office is pursuing its private Common Market line, and is being, so I hear, very stringent in its insistence on what Britain can, and more important, can- not, afford to pay.
I suspect that there is no longer one Trea-
sury knight now devoted to the Common Market 'cause'.
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