Great Britain: Even If You Win, You'll Lose

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A prophecy was recalled: alarmed by Gaitskell's strictures against the Six in Brussels last July. Belgium's Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak. one of the Common Market's founding fathers, told him: "Even if you win with this position, you'll lose three times over later." Said tough, astute Herbert Wehner. deputy chairman and top ideologist of West Germany's socialist party last week: "What happened at Brighton is the kind of thing that keeps Soviet hopes alive that the West can be divided after all."

* Another politician who remembers Vimy: Prime Minister Harold jNIacmillan, whose Guards regiment was all but wiped out at nearby Loos.

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