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FORBIGN SBCKBTARY:
To because they are European arrangements, and it gives
the opportunity of readdressing myself to the Far Eastern Economic
Review as long as he can listen to me patiently.
The European deal
16 providing for free movement all ways by 320 million people
throughout the Community.
lium and millions of KBritons travel to Spain for example
overy year, Currently Limra
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growing developing pattern of that
kind and that is something which we have been living with as a
commitment since 1972 providing for freedom of movement within one
geographical region
But the impact of an open-ended pledge to 3, 4, 5, 6 million
people in llong Long would be totally different from that because
they would be coming not just as migrauts for work matching Britich
migrants going round the rest of the Community, but as a ret
substantial addition of people coming to settle. That is the
differenca.
QUESTION (Steve Hines, Observer);
I am sure the people have said to you while you have been
here that British policy might create an anti-British backlash and
also indeed that the British administration might find it difficult
to goveru here. What is your response to those views?