Common Market
Sir,—On April 21, 1944, the House of Commons agreed to the motion that the United Kingdom should do all it could to preserve in time of peace the unity that had served the British Commonwealth so well in war time. “Here, after our failures amid the wrecks of empires, states, nations, and institutions of every kind, we find the British Commonwealth and Empire more strongly united than ever before,” Mr Churchill said. He described how strictly his stewardship had safeguarded the structure of Imperial preference, which had been built up out of the accomplishments of the last 40 years, against the danger of being swept away in the tumult of war. He had insisted on the words, “with due respect to their existing obligations.” being inserted in the Atlantic Charter for the express purpose of retaining for Parliament and the Dominions the greatest possible rights and liberties on any question of Imperial preference, he said.—Yours, etc., WATERLOO. June 7, 1962.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29843, 8 June 1962, Page 3
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