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Britain, Europe, and the Atlantic Community

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  • Beloff, Max

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It would be difficult to imagine a more inappropriate moment for trying to assess the British role in the evolution of the Atlantic Community. Writing in May 1963, one is all too aware of the importance of the decisions that will still have to be taken to meet the situation that has arisen from the failure of Britain's application to join the Common Market. Both the protagonists of Britain's entry and the opponents of this move, however, drew closer together on at least one point as the long debate over the negotiations went on. Both sides agreed that the decision—one way or the other—would be a major turning point in Britain's history. Indeed, if we omit the crises of two world wars, it would be difficult to think of an adequate parallel. Even the bitterly contested repeal of the Corn Laws in the 1840's— the event which is usually taken as signifying the triumph of industrial over agrarian Britain—was less far-reaching in its implications.

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  • Beloff, Max, 1963. "Britain, Europe, and the Atlantic Community," International Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 17(3), pages 574-591, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:cup:intorg:v:17:y:1963:i:03:p:574-591_03
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