ABSTRACT
In paragraph 20 of Chapter 1 of this Report, I recorded my own view that M. Pompidou and the French Government effectively took, at The Hague Summit meeting of December 1969, the decision which admitted us to the Community. Several months, and several hundred files, after recording that opinion, I find that I still hold it. But we suffered from many anxieties and uncertainties on the way to success, as parts of this chapter will record. I make no claim to have been convinced throughout the negotiations that they were destined to succeed.
