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Alistair Home has written that in 1949 Harold Macmillan had boundless, almost excessive, enthusiasm for Europe. This is correct, but between 1949 and 1961 he was not consistent and at one period did his best to sabotage the EEC in order to preserve the interests of the Commonwealth.2
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Based on a paper given to the Centre of International Studies at Christ’s College, Cambridge, on 5 September 1996.
Alistair Home, Macmillan: 1957–1986, vol. 1 (London: Macmillan, 1989), p. 314.
Richard Lamb, The Failure of the Eden Government (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1987), p. 61.
Ian Clark, Nuclear Diplomacy and the British Relationship (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994). p. 481, quoting from papers in the Kennedy Centre.
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Lamb, R. (1999). Macmillan and Europe. In: Aldous, R., Lee, S. (eds) Harold Macmillan Aspects of a Political Life. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376892_6
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