Britain's Failure to Enter the European Community, 1961-63

Abstract

The first failure to steer Britain in the the European Communities - an introduction, George Wilkes. Part 1 The key actors at Brussels: a slow one hundred and eighty degree turn - British policy towards the Common Market, 1955-60, Richard Griffiths de Gaulle and the British application to join the Common market, Maurice Vaisse masterminding a new Western Europe - the key actors at Brussels in the superpower conflict, Gustav Schmidt. Part 2 Overcoming Britain's problems: Anglo-Commonwealth relations and EEC membership - the problem of the old dominions, Stuart Ward British agriculture and the Brussels negotiations - a problem of trust, N. Piers Ludlow legal problems for British accession, Karl Newman. Part 3 The breakdown and European Unity: the Fouchet negotiations for political union and the British application, Pierre Gerbet small state on the sidelines - Denmark and the question of European political integration, Hans Branner American Europeanists, Monnet's action committeee and British membership, Pascaline Winand grand designs and the diplomatic breakdown, Oliver Bange eye-witness views of the Brussels breakdown, George Wilkes.