tries in preference to buying beet sugar from France, but
Mr Rippon seems to have been satisfied with a general assurance that all Com- monwealth developing countries would get some trade concessions. Unless Mr Heath is prepared to accept a similar general assurance in respect of butter from New Zea- land. it is most unlikely that the terms we seek on this issue will be accepted. because they would vio- late one of the basic principles of the Community, that preference must be given to buying the pro- duce of member countries over all others. I hope Mr Heath will not give way. but, if he does not, he, and all those who advocate entry, can no longer deceive themselves—and the British people—that we can be genuine members of both the
Commonwealth and the FIT at the same time. We cannot have two
wives at the same time. We should have to divorce the first if we wish Ito marry the second for the sake
I. H. K. Lockhart 2I8 King's Avenue, Ealing, w5
Irish oaths
Sir: As you correctly divined in your 'Orange and Green' article (15 May) the dernoniSation of op- ponents is the greatest enemy to a rational solution in the North of Ireland. When one side is not act- ing badly towards the other some- one is always present to make them think evilly of the other person's person or religion.
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