Sovereignty and the Common Market
Sir: Your 'Notebook' (1 May) implies that Mr Soames's views on the Common Market are not those of the Government. However, after his notorious speech urging EEC political union last year Arthur Lewis, mr, asked the Foreign Secre- tary on 9 November: 'whether the speech made by the British Am- bassador to France on Thursday, 29 October 1970 in Paris, urging economic and political unity in Europe, was made with his author- ity'. Sir Alec answered: 'I am aware of the speech to which the Hon member refers and agree with the views expressed in it.'
Indeed, at Harvard, in March 1967, Edward Heath went further, and after remarking that the nation-state was out-of-date, said, of the EEC: 'I do not myself think . . . that defence will be excluded indefinitely.' Mr Heath therefore accepts not only the ultimate de- struction of our nation by abso- lutely unlimited immigration, from the Six, the French and probably Dutch Caribbean and, soon, Greece and Turkey, but also the setting up of an EEC army, which will doubtless suppress British attempts to free ourselves as effectively as those of Biafra, East Pakistan and the Confederate States.
Neither do I find Edward Heath's pledge which you quote . . you couldn't possibly take this country into the Common Market if the majority of the people were against it,' at all reassuring in view of the rider: 'this is handled through the parliamentary system.' •
Mr Heath merely admits what we already know, that he needs a parliamentary vote to extinguish our nation. Most of the political commentators agree that he intends to get this vote by August or earlier, so that we have but a few weeks to fight for our indepen- dence.
May I respectfully suggest to you, Sir, that you continue your magnificent fight against what one can only describe as the crowning and final betrayal, and to your readers that they press for the same rights to vote in a referendum that our fellow applicants, Ireland, Nor- way, and probably Denmark, will have.
G. I. A. Stern 6 Eton Court, Shepherds Hill, London N6 5AF
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