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...reply that Britain can best lead the Commonwealth from within the Common Market, where she can help to lower tariffs, pare discriminatory internal taxes, and channel Europe's fast-growing investment funds to underdeveloped nations. The only alternative to Britain's membership, as Macmillan, Heath & Co. see it, would be to relinquish all claims to big-power status and resign herself, like 18th century Venice, to continued isolation and impoverishment...
This fate, and Heath's attitude toward it, was prophetically expressed when in 1934, as a teen-age member of his school debating society, young Heath proposed the motion that "This House Deplores the Whither-ance of Britain" (as usual, he won the debate...
Negotiator at Work. To prevent the whither-ance. or withering, of Britain today, Ted Heath, though not an economist by vocation, has made himself one. Even the "high priests," as Britain's negotiators call members of the nine-man Common Market Commission, have ruefully acknowledged error when Heath has challenged an imprecise interpretation of the Treaty of Rome, which is virtually sacred writ on the Rue des Quatre Bras...
...Brussels, where he has discovered a gourmet's haven called Comme Chez Soi far off the beaten track, Heath gives small, elegant dinner parties for individual delegations. Says one recent guest: "He starts doing business immediately, asking questions all the time: 'Why do you do this?' 'Why do you want that?' By dessert he knows exactly what he wants to know." Though many were skeptical of Britain's motives at first, Heath has convinced Common Market officials of his government's deep commitment to membership in the community. "If this...
...left-of-center Tory in domestic issues, Heath is regarded by fellow M.P.s as an "unflappable," honorable, totally dedicated politician who has ruthlessly eliminated from his personal life any interest or pleasure that would