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"CURITY CLASSIFICATION
Top Secret.
Secret.
Confidential.
DRAFT
speech
To:-
The National Press Club of
Type 1 +
From
The Chancellor of the
Luchy of Lancaster Telephone No. & Ext.
Restricted. Unclassified.
PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
Australia ·
Department
I am very
I am very honoured to be here today.
glad to have the opportunity of explaining to
this audience why Britain wants to join the
European Communities if fair terms can be obtained, and why in the long term we believe that this is very
much in the interest of our Australian friends too.
2.
Of course
I am sure that Australians understand very well the need for a greater European Community
which includes Britain. Until twenty years or so ago your links with Europe were almost entirely
with or in terms of the British Isles. Anglo-Australian ties, historical and practical, remair. very strong; we have been reminded forcibly of this by the visit of Her Majesty your Queen to Australia in this Cook bicentrary year. But today you, like
indeed the British people, have much more direct experience of other European countries through trade
and travel and every sort of contact.
herself is becoming more cosmopolitan with the
arrival of new Australians from the continent of
Australia
Europe. I believe you see clearly, perhaps more
clearly than some of our own people, that the European group including Britain has a family
likeness and a need for unity.
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