ABSTRACT
This was very much Macmillan’s initiative. He had failed to rekindle the special relationship with the US, and his personal summitry had collapsed at the 1960 Moscow conference. He was still looking for a central theme for British foreign policy and his mind moved gradually towards EU membership. Opinion in the press and the Foreign Office was coming round to the idea. However, Conservatives were divided, and the implications for agriculture and the Commonwealth particularly sensitive. Macmillan had to move cautiously.
