ABSTRACT
It suited everyone to refer to ‘the new Wilton Park’. The Foreign Office could feel it had not wholly reversed the decision to close the old one. The Treasury was mollified by this and by the possibility of funds from abroad. Heinz Koeppler was glad to accept the new look, knowing it was a development rather than a volte-face. ‘The great decision has been made’, he wrote in a letter on May 16, 1957; ‘Wilton Park is to be continued’. Continued-not transformed. After all, Koeppler had long ago encouraged participants other than Germans; and he was convinced that his existing methods needed no radical change.
