Letters, memos, press cuttings includes: text of seventh major news conference held by General Charles de Gaulle as President of the French Republic, discussing among other topics, the Common Market and Britain’s application for entry.
Verbatim of talk by M. Valery Giscard D’Estaing – "Towards a European Confederation".
Reaction to the press conferences of President Charles de Gaulle by Noel Salter (report presented by the British Council of Churches 1967).
Article by Guy de la Presle "L’Angleterre et le Marché Commun".
Address by M. Couve de Murville to the Foreign Affairs Club, April 1970.
WEU brief from General Affairs Committee on the British Application for Membership of the EC 1963-1968.
Confidential memo on M. Pompidou’s plan of action to convince his ministers that British entry into the EEC was in the interests of France.
Speech by M. George Pompidou, President of France at a press conference dealing also with the construction of Europe, 21 January 1971.
Speech by the PM Heath at the Royal Academy Banquet on the idea of a United Europe within the framework of the EEC.
Confidential memo by Salter on the state of UK/EEC negotiations before the ministerial meetings in Brussels, 5 May 1971.

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