Toward the Atlantic Common Market

A couple of weeks ago Punch had a cartoon showing a conference table around which were seven chairs labeled, respectively, with the names of the six Common Market nations P us Britain. The six were occupied by the appropriate heads of government. The British chair was pushed back, and Prime Minister Macmillan was about to leave. The chairman (Signor Fanfari, since the Common Market rests juridically on the Treaty of Rome) was saying to him: Burnham.

“Don’t bother to ring. We’ll call you.”