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‘Let’s get blowing’ from The Guardian (24 November 1969)
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Press article
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DAVIS, William, 'Let's get blowing' suggests Aunt Bertha, in The Guardian. 24.11.1969, p. 10.
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| Keywords |
enlargement of the Community, Hague Summit, United Kingdom
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| Copyright |
© GUARDIAN
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On 24 November 1969, the British daily newspaper The Guardian publishes an ironic article referring to the Hague Summit held on 1 and 2 December. It refers to the failures of EC enlargement and also the consequences of the United Kingdom's accession for British citizens and for their identity.
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| Location in the digital library |
HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1969–1979 Crises and revival >> The Hague Summit
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| Document extract |
‘Let’s get blowing,’ suggests Aunt Bertha
by William Davis My Aunt Bertha is worried about next week's Common Market summit. It's not just that she keeps having nightmares in which her street is submerged in surplus EEC butter. It's not even that she can't bear the thought of eating snails and sauerkraut. The awful truth — I hardly dare tell you this — is that she finds it difficult to steer her way through all the Common Market jargon. She knows, of course, that a summit isn't an expedition to the Himalaya, but a high-level conference by important men, with bulging brief cases, which end with the release of long and incomprehensible communiqués. She even knows that the EEC, the Six, and the Common Market are all the same animal. And she recognises that the outcome could affect everyone in Britain. But she says no one ever bothers to explain the complex European lingo to the likes of her. Aunt Bertha says it was all much easier last time. We were applying for membership because it was an "invigorating challenge". We were going to "blow away the cobwebs," and face the "cold winds of competition". And we were putting in a "clear, uncluttered application". Aunt Bertha thought it was all jolly good stuff, and she was bitterly disappointed when the General said he didn't want to let us in. Like most people, she felt it was a (...) Read more in ENA |
| See also |
Albert Coppé receives Northern Irish members of the British delegation in Brussels (Brussels, 4 October 1971)
The Hague Summit
1969–1979 Crises and revival of the EEC
The first enlargement
The accession of the United Kingdom to the European Communities (Brussels, 22 January 1972)
Letter from Christopher Soames to Lord Douglas_Home (22 June 1970)
The UK joins the European common market (1 January 1973)
Edward Heath signs the United Kingdom’s Treaty of Accession (Brussels, 22 January 1972)
Preliminary Commission Opinion on the applications for membership submitted by the United Kingdom, Ireland, Denmark and Norway — update (1 October 1969)
Negotiations with the United Kingdom
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