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...week's end, Britain's chief negotiator, Lord Privy Seal Edward Heath, was about the only member of his team who seemed unruffled by the setback. "This is what negotiations are for," he shrugged. "We have been expecting difficulties to arise, and they have." But in a final 22-hour session aimed at breaking the stalemate, Heath's team failed to win the clear-cut safeguards it sought. With no hope of obtaining an overall accord in time for the Commonwealth conference in London next month, Britain and the Six adjourned the talks, agreed to try again...
...Conservative leadership's commitment to enter the Market remains unchanged," he explained, noting that neither Lord Home (British Foreign Secretary) nor Edward Heath (Britain's Common Market negotiator) was replaced. There is only "a 50/50 chance that Britain will enter the Common Market," Macridis declared, and the probability of this happening decreases as more and more time passes without a definite settlement...
Four important Cabinet ministers remained firmly in place. Edward Heath is still Lord Privy Seal in charge of Common Market negotiations; the Colonial Office has been put under the able administration of Duncan Sandys, who already heads Commonwealth Relations; and Lord Home continues as the Foreign Secretary. One surprise to outsiders was the survival of Iain Macleod as party chairman because he is widely blamed for the Tories' repeated defeats. Macmillan feels that this criticism is unfair, that Macleod deserves more time to show what...
Finally, when Eden's illness made his resignation inevitable, it fell to Chief Whip Heath to summon the twelve other party whips to his office at 12 Downing Street and, in effect, pick a new Prime Minister. Recalls one participant in the meeting: "Round and round we went, talking for hours - all except Ted. He listened." After listening almost all night, Heath was able to assure party chieftains that the rank and file would wholeheartedly support one man : Harold Macmillan...
...Grass Roots. The new Prime Minister, who by then dined almost nightly with Heath, made him Minister of Labor in 1959. when his government was step ping hard on inflationary pay raises. After only nine months at Labor, he was summoned by Macmillan and entrusted with the momentous job of getting Britain into Europe. He was appointed Lord Privy Seal, was also appointed to serve as Foreign Office spokesman in the Commons, since Foreign Secretary Lord Home sits...