Opponents Hold London Rally

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29912, 28 August 1962, Page 15

Opponents Hold London Rally

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON, August 27. If Britain entered the Common Market it would leave behind a shambles of uncertainty, the Earl of Sandwich told an Anti-Common Market League rally in London yesterday.

"No-one, not even Austra. lia, would have the historical prestige and economic power to hold the Commonwealth together," he said, to cheers from his audience of 2500 in the Albert Hall.

The meeting later called for the Government to break off negotiations immediately A resolution also urged the Government to use the forthcoming Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ conference m an opportunity to further develop Commonwealth relations.

The rally, said to be a representative all-party meeting of people from all over Great Britain, was the league’s biggest. The Earl of Sandwich, who. as Lord Hinchingbrooke. was a Conservative member of Parliament, said the British Prime Minister <Mr Macmillan) had “gone to Bermuda and received President Kennedy’s instructions to join ‘h? Common Market." He said; "Why does the Government acqept this American influence? Britain is the inventor of the atom bomb. We ought to resist American attempts to lord it over us with their superior designs. “We should resist the pressure they put 6n us to mould our economic destiny to their fancy designs for Europe The Commonwealth is crying cut in alarm at what is happening.” Lord Sandwich said. There were more cheers

when other speakers described Britain’s proposed entry as a “sell-out" of Britain to Europe. In Manchester, the “Guardian,” drawing attention to the opponents of, the Common Market within the British Conservative Party today, commented: “Those who are now actively campaigning in the country against their own Prime Minister have surely overstepped the limits of what the party system can properly accommodate.”