ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with three countries or groups of countries. They are, first, the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) non-applicants; second, the United States; and third, Australia and Canada. The Stockholm Convention of 1960 had defined, in its preamble, the aims of EFTA; and they included 'the promotion of closer economic cooperation between the members of the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, including the members of the European Economic Community'. The United States could have taken action, or made demands on the Community or on ourselves, which might have complicated the negotiations in the highest degree or even frustrated their successful outcome. In Australia as in Canada, popular and political attitudes towards the possibility of British entry into the Community had changed profoundly; it was by 1970 in general seen as something which Britain must be left to decide for herself.
