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There were domestic political considerations behind Pompidou's proposal, but its major impact was in Britain. Most notably, it put a new weapon in the hands of Britain's antiMarket politicians, who have been trying to force Tory Prime Minister Edward Heath to put the issue before the British public in just such a referendum. In Parliament, one group of antiMarket M.P.s in Heath's own party tabled a motion hailing Pompidou's "fundamentally democratic decision...
Molding a Mandate. Pompidou rather inexplicably failed to give Heath advance notice of the Elysée announcement, even though he was to join him two days later for a long-planned weekend at Chequers. Heath clearly is not about to call for a referendum-especially since a Harris Poll last week rated British public support for entry at 36%, down from 42% last January. Despite the uncertainty of popular feelings, the Prime Minister intends to keep the entry issue confined to Parliament, where he has a fluctuating but seemingly safe pro-Market majority...
Upon returning to Westminster from a visit to Dublin, British Labor Leader Harold Wilson warned Prime Minister Edward Heath that any further holdup in announcing his long-delayed settlement proposals for Northern Ireland would probably lead to open civil war. In fact, Heath has not been able to decide on any plans because his Cabinet has been divided. A few weeks ago, his Tory government was apparently ready to offer a series of reforms that would have given Ulster's Catholic minority a bill of rights and a share in the Protestant-dominated Stormont government. Then a step...
...organizations as the Loyalist Association of Workers have grown tougher in their statements regarding the need to "destroy for all time this evil in our midst." At week's end, more than 50,000 Protestants staged a mass rally to display their solidarity against a "sellout" by the Heath government. Even though demonstrations are illegal in Northern Ireland these days, Catholics responded with a march of their own through the Andersonstown section of Belfast...
...fact that it was leap-year day probably had nothing to do with it, but while Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath was suggesting in the House of Commons that 60-year-old Labor M.P. Barbara Castle should take her parliamentary question to one of his ministers, she suddenly broke in: 'I cannot, my dear boy." The 55-year-old Prime Minister paused, then icily informed the House: "I am not the right honorable lady's dear boy." Blushing to the roots of her red hair, Mrs. Castle sat down. It was also gaffe time in Ottawa...